[Leica] IMG: Paris on B&W film

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Nice to see film scenes of Paris street life, especially some that I recognized, in particular the ones across the street from le Sacre-Coeur. I think the street lamp is the one where my wife and I saw a street performer doing a very elegant slow-motion acrobatic dance up and down the lamppost to the delight of a crowd in 2013. I got the feeling he was keeping one eye out for les flics.

I have an ancient Oly XA pocket camera that I’ve had since I lived in Germany 40 years ago. I think I’ll pack it on the trip for some street scenes in Copenhagen and Stockholm.

I agree with Peter – on my monitor, the film appears overexposed, with washing-out of entire brighter areas and limited tonality. Meter calibration problem? Processing? Scanning? 

—howard

> On Apr 23, 2022, at 6:40 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> Besides the digital photos I posted after my trip to Paris in March, I also shot some B&W film with my newly acquired Olympus OM4T. The film is mostly HP5 with some Fuji Acros thrown in, and the lenses are mostly the 50mm and 85mm (I also have a 28mm which I may have used occasionally).
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> In the film gallery I tried to focus on details and other aspects of Paris life and to do it differently than with my Fuji X photos. Whether I succeeded, you be the judge:
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/paris_film_march2022/index.html
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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