Quando Para Mucho Mi Amore De Felice Carathon
A first look at the first roll from my Yashica TLR
HURRAY!!!
The negatives from my first roll of film through my Yashica MAT 124G have come back!! At least the scanned files are here, I’ll need to go to the store to get the physical film.
I took these shots in and around Pueblo’s, Union Station. During the day, it was a pretty good-sized rail station, with plenty of passenger and freight railroad business moving through. There is still plenty of freight, but no passenger trains stop in, or travel through, Pueblo, that I am aware of.
The day was very sunny, and I took these shots over the course of 45 minutes, between noon and 1 PM. The shots that I downloaded are not in the order that I took them, I am going to try and recreate the shot list from memory.
First shot.
There are a number of feral cats that live around the station, locals business folks feed them (you’ll see bowls of food and water everywhere), and this first shot took so long to set up that they scarpered.
I was not shooting with any idea other than seeing if these shots would turn out. My primary concerns were, does this camera work, can I work it? I would say that it does, and I can. I was happy to see that I can still work the light meter, too!
I shot in direct and indirect light, both to see how the film did (Ilford Delta 400) and to see if I could run the light meter.
I haven’t posted all 12 shots from the roll, but I will say that I am very happy with the performance of the camera, the film, and myself. I forgot how much fun it was to shoot film. These shots have not been polished in any way, they are straight out of the camera. I do have a few thoughts on the differences between digital and film, but I’ll have to get to that later.
As a side note…
I calculated the general number of photos that I have taken while at the auction house. The number was 252,000 individual shots (digital). If I had taken that many shots, on film, with processing, the cost to develop them (not including printing) would be over $400,000.
DAMN!
I would not make the distinction between “real” photography being film, over digital, both are legitimate photography - even photography on my phone. If I made such a distinction here, I apologize. I am finding it interesting to see some of the details in these shots, that I do not specifically see in my digital photography. I’ll take a closer look at the film shots tonight and make some more detailed observations.
What fun! My grandmother had a darkroom in her house and way way back when I was a kid I learned to develop my own B&W film and process prints on paper in trays - picking up the prints by the corner and letting the chemicals drip off.
That process is completely missing from the digital experience - you can't SMELL a digital photo.