As mentioned, the cheap 500 GX I bought has a non-functional meter, but works fine in manual mode. So after some fresh light seals, I loaded up a roll of Fomapan 200, and started shooting, testing my fully manual skillz.
Continue reading “No Light Meter. No Problem?”1970s Ricoh Compacts, part 5 – the Ricoh 500 GX
The Ricoh 500 GX was the last of the Ricoh 500 series to be made in Japan. It’s pretty much a 500 G, with the addition of a multiple exposure switch, battery check button, shutter lock, and little flags that indicate when loaded film and a cocked shutter. In theory, it’s the best of the whole line, and I had high hopes for it.
How did this spur-of-the-moment acquisition work out for me? Read on…
Continue reading “1970s Ricoh Compacts, part 5 – the Ricoh 500 GX”Nicholas J R White – ‘Black Dots’
In Black Dots, Nicholas White takes us to the mountain bothies of Scotland, Whales, and Northern England, mixing landscape and portrait photography to give us a sort of Alec Soth-indebted view of bothies and the (mostly) men who occupy them.
Continue reading “Nicholas J R White – ‘Black Dots’”Matt Parry – ‘[SIC]’
[SIC] is a short collection of Matt Parry’s mistakes…
Continue reading “Matt Parry – ‘[SIC]’”David Bryan (@filminthefreezer) – ‘Twelve Thousand Miles’
David Bryan (aka @filminthefreezer) spent a year traveling around the American West, and Twelve Thousand Miles: One Year in the American West is the result.
Continue reading “David Bryan (@filminthefreezer) – ‘Twelve Thousand Miles’”Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’
‘Breaking the Elephant’ took me awhile to figure out. It’s really very conceptual and a little bit difficult, and I wonder if it really, I mean, really works.
Continue reading “Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’”Daniel Tim – ‘Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much’
It took a few viewings, but Daniel Tim’s Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much has grown on me. I’ve grown a little bit tired of straight-ahead street photography, and the book is just full of it, shot in Hong Kong, on film, and I’m ashamed to say that the first time(s) I flipped through it, I flipped quickly.
But after three or four times, I started to notice some things, not so much in the individual pictures, but in the relationships between them.
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