Rangefinder Chronicles - First Month

[Nick De Marco]

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Yesterday I uploaded the photo from Thursday 25 November 2010 on my Rangefinder Chronicles blog

 

The first photo uploaded was from 25 October 2010. Since then, for over a month I have taken a photograph on film every single day, only using Rangefinder Cameras, and have scanned and uploaded on for each day.

 

The project has sometimes been tough to keep to: I often work long hours as a barrister - some recent days the light is hardly there in London and goes altogether in the middle of the afternoon, there are days I don't want to take a camera, and days that I find it hard to find even a minute to take a photo. Also, when sometimes the only time to photograph is on the way to work, finding something you haven't already photographed can be hard.

 

Then there is the film. Sometimes I have the wrong film in the camera. A couple of films have been ruined in developing, but I have still had to upload a photo. And the scanning to take up many hours.

 

But despite this I'm glad to be doing the project, and I have continued to take a film photo every day since. Most times I look forward to stealing a few minutes, or if lucky an hour, just to do photography every day. I get excited every time I look at a new film I have developed, and remember what I was doing 2 weeks earlier. I enjoy using my rangefinders and experimenting with different lenses. I benefit from the discipline of logging which camera, lens and film I shoot with every day, so I can properly review the results later.

 

Most of all I am grateful I can think about, and do, photography every single day without having to be doing a specific project or travelling.

 

Please spare a moment to have a look at my daily blog. It's here:

Rangefinder Chronicles

 

Although I have about 2,500 visitors so far, only a few have become "followers". It would be great to have a few more. All you do is scroll down on the main screen and click follow. It costs you nothing and there is no spam.

 

Thanks for looking

 

Nick

 

Thursday 25 November 2010

(Taken with Leica M6TTL Zeiss 35mm Biogon f2 and Kodak Ektar film)

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[xxxceli]

Good effort!

I'm only half way through your blog, but so far, I really like the mood of it.

I can't wait to be back it London, there's so much to photograph there!

Kindest regards,

C.

[Nick De Marco]

Thanks for your kind comments

Nick

 

PS - I would love to be photographing in Tokyo!

[cbretteville]

Thanks for posting the link Nick. Looking forward to having a look on a proper screen, the iPhone is a little small for this.

Carl

[griffster]

Keep it up!

[Nick De Marco]

Thanks for the comments

 

I am so far certainly keeping it up - but with one major concession: I found having to rely 100% on film rangefinders was just too much. When you have only a few minutes on some days, because of work, and by then it is dark, and you have a 100 iso film in a camera with a slow lens because it was light when you left home and thought you would get an earlier moment to use it, and you can't push as you shot yesterday's shots on it at 100, you struggle a bit too much.

 

So I will introduce photos taken from my new Leica M8.2 in future Chronicles, whilst still doing as much work as possible on film

[Xmas]

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Hi

 

London in winter forces me to use 400ISO all the time, the only time I get sunny side f/16 is in Traf Sq mid summer. If the light fades 400 in Microphen or XP2.

 

If it is raining I'll stay until dark for monopod shots in rain.

 

Noel