Ready for Budapest

[ploafmaster]

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Tomorrow evening I take a flight to Budapest, Hungary, for about 1.5 weeks. Mostly for grad school, 4 nights at the end for me.

 

I'm bringing 3 cameras - my D90 just in case, my Mamiya C3, and my relatively recently acquired M3. I think the D90 will spend most of the trip in the hotel room safe :-)

 

I recently took possession of two items that should make using my M3 more enjoyable than it already is: a Retrospective 5 (all the cool kids are doing it) and a Zeiss Planar f/2 50 mm. I already have a CV 15 mm and an old screw-mount 9cm Elmar f/4, so I'm happy to finally have a normal lens as well. The Retrospective is as good as everybody seems to be saying, and the Planar is pretty freaking sweet, too. I'm quite enamored of the defocused regions of the pictures I've so far taken, and my test rolls (one New Portra 400 and one Tri-X) are promising.

 

While I understand there are plenty of places to find and buy film at reasonable prices, I'll have about 13 or 14 rolls of 35mm with me (in addition to 23 rolls of 120), and I'm looking forward to using as much of it as possible :-)

 

I'll be in the city the whole time without much chance to explore outside of Budapest, but are there any places off the beaten path within the city that I should explore?

[stuny]

Have a look at our Budapest photos on our site for ideas. Among my favorite places were St, Matthias's Chuirch (get in line before it opens so you can rush in and get photos without hordes of tourists in your shots), outside St M's and the Fisherman's Bastion and St. Stephen's statue. Across the river get a tour of the fabulous Parliament building.

[jippiejee]

Don't forget the great park with communist statues

 

Memento Park Budapest - a kommunista diktat

 

enjoy!

[Stefan-S]

...dont miss the cafes,and take a bath...