Camera Talk

Over the Easter weekend the autumn weather was being nice and welcoming, unlike the following week where the heavens opened (one part of the city got 70mm of rain in one hour, 100mm in two hours!). Glorious, fine, calm autumn weather. So I grabbed the Canon FTb along with the 35mm f3.5 and 100mm f2.8 lenses and headed into the city on the bike.

Being autumn, the sun was at the right angle to give some nice dramatic shadows across the front of the main building. Once I'd finished working with the light and shadows casting themselves across the pillars, I wandered round the rest of the surrounding area.

These frames were shot on Ilford FP4, developed in PC-TEA 1+50 for 12 minutes. This PC-TEA was the last bottle I had left from a batch I mixed up in 2013, showing its excellent keeping properties. Scanned with the Panasonic G9.

The FTb is a lovely piece of kit, usually much cheaper than the many of the other FD mount Canons. Mine is the first version, solidly built and much, much nicer (for me at least) to use than the AE-1 I had used some time ago.

I really like these, strong graphical presence and fun composition. Thanks for sharing them with us!

Also appreciating the title, and wondering if there was ever a "Vicar" camera. Seems not, although it appears there might have been a camera store called "Vicar Camera" in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Robert

I do have a Viceroy, perhaps I should try that at Parliament or the Governor General's residence?

Beautiful series, I like those shadows on the corridors

Around the back of the memorial building are some university buildings and a secondary school. These were shot on the same day, but with a roll of Fomapan 100. Lots of shapes and shadows to play with. Mostly shot with the Canon 35mm f3.5.

Some of the older houses in the adjoining suburb of Newtown taken with the Canon 100mm f2.8:

And the final couple, one showing our new overlords capped of with our national obsession, the road cone: .

And one of the little Japanese "kei car" sports cars, a Honda Beat:

Good place for architecture photography! I like that funny robot, it might have escaped from the Wizard of Oz.