First MF in many years ...

[dmr]

Well, gang, I did it, my very first MF in more years than I can remember. This was really a test drive of the Yashica D TLR, which I'm not really that familiar with yet, and the photos I just got back do confirm it.

To make a long story long ... I was hoping for some "sunny 16" weather last Saturday, but I woke up to thunderboomies and it was an icky-stick yucky-sucky day all day long. :( I guess I should feel fortunate, I'm a couple hundred miles north of that town in Kansas that got totally blown away last weekend. :(

Anyway, I decided to go out in the afternoon and shoot what I could shoot. I had 2 "sessions", one before and one after dinner. Both times I found an hour or so when it was not actually raining.

I went to a local park and shot a few frames by this natural spring kind of thing that they have piped into a trough. I had hoped for better weather and this was most definitely "gloomy 5.6" weather. :( Nothing really spectacular to show from it, I am posting one of the better ones.

Then about 8:30pm it had let up raining again and I found myself in the downtown area and I shot a few cloudy-dusky shots, totally guessing at the exposure. I'm posting one of a riverfront restaurant, handheld at 1/30, and during that I could hear the tornado sirens across the river. My composition is bad, I swear I did not notice the position of that stupid yellow sign in there!

Last shot I'm posting is from a parking garage, 1 second exposure with the camera braced firmly on the structure.

[sepiareverb]

When I started looking away from my subject down into a camera there was a REALLY steep learning curve. Something happened when I looked the other way, some disconnect from the subject. I got over it, but it took a while.

You certainly seem to have that 'gloomy 5.6' method of shooting down! I'm dreading running this first roll from my Rollei SE I shot without a battery!

I've been through Greensburg a lot, hard to believe it can look like that looking at the news pics I've seen.

[jan normandale]

Yay dmr! You did it. It looks like the camera itself is performing okay. The colours seem to head toward the blue/green end but that's just film. For shots taken without a tripod and at 1/30th and less it's hard to tell if the camera lens is sharp. Having a Yashica TLR I find mine to be sharp but not razor sharp.

Anyway I love the big negs and transparencies and I hope you find some fun factor with it. It's definitely not a camera for 'walk about' though. Good luck

[like2fiddle]

congratulations on getting out there with MF again. You've inspired me to get my recently acquirred Autocord out tomorrow and burn a roll or two! Thanks.;)