Dads Old Voigtlander split image range finder
I grew up with these kind of cameras.
It sits on a shelf as a sentimental ornament now.
These are my first published images.
I was a teenager and carried my 35mm SLR with me everywhere.
I’m no Steve McCurry, but I cried in 2010
My last Kodachromes
This is what a full frame, 18x12 black and white looks like shot and printed well off 35mm.
Back in the pre digital camera shop days we had reference books for everything. (All Makes and Models)
No one could know everything, and usually we each knew our favourite makes best, not just the theory, but which were good, or not. All makers have good n bad models in their ranges, it’s always been like that.
I’m no Martin Parr, but a bit of kitsch tickles me.
I had multiple images to choose from, but left in the one with the streaker in the top left corner.
It was real Wedding, not a set up shot.
This was one of my best known ‘famous’ Wedding shots.
At that time digital couldn’t have coped with the dynamic range.
Actually pretty much only XP2 could have pulled this off. It was copied - badly- by many other photographers for a long time afterwards. Real wedding, of course.
Here is my favourite book from my film studio days. A Master Dance Teacher finally wrote the book she had been meaning to. Published 2003. I'd forgotten how much performance / dance / stage work I'd shot back then. Studio work meant lighting perfectly, pre digital.
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