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Voigtlander Bessa R3M 250 Jahre
© Flavio Martín Morante_2013
NIkon Coolpix P7000
I love film, what can I say.
After 15 years making photographs, and after a whole year of experimenting with fresh eyes (the pinhole slowed me down and made me fall back in love with the photographic process while I learned a lot more) in which is my deepest passion that I feel for photography, I decided to throw myself back to where all started somehow: 35mm black and white, taking the pictures, processing the film and prints myself.
However, since I think I learned something after all this years, this time I wanted to go with a rangefinder camera so I ended getting the superb (but still somehow accesible) Voigtlander Bessa R3M , brand new from the selling listing of Stephen Gandy from CameraQuest. (I highly recommend this distributor, for its good costumer service, price and quick shipping).
I LOVE this camera. Specially the 1:1 viewfinder, which lets me see everything in front of me the same way it will be printed on the negative, without any distortion. Also I do not miss anything while I click, something I already felt the difference in these past days compared to the system I been using since the beginning (SLR). The camera feels great on the hands, is not big or bulky, also it is completely manual, so despite of using 2 LR44 batteries, if these die, I still keep shooting by calculating/estimating exposure, something I have known difficult up here with extreme cold weather.
From now on, I still will hold digital for color, but I am back on doing the "type" of pictures that dragged me into this medium and as long as there is black and white film (committed myself to Ilford HP5 400ISO for the tonal quality), that's what I will be doing.
Samples soon.
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