My first 500 G photo's

[Genster]

A few weeks before my vacation to Aruba, I bought an old Ricoh 500 G. The camera went on vacation and here are some pictures:

Totally i have 30 pictures from the 500 G. You can see them here:
http://www.genster.nl/gensters_fotos/20 ... _500G.html

Kind regards,

Genster

 

[Genster]

And this is the camera:

 

[Genster]

Thanks for all the replies :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[dgilmour]

It's strange nobody commented it, perhaps this topic is lost somewhere and is not visible to others Good shots here, but have some lack of contrast for my taste.

 

[Genster]

It's strange nobody commented it, perhaps this topic is lost somewhere and is not visible to others Good shots here, but have some lack of contrast for my taste.

Thanks for your comments, I'll try to think about adding some more contrast next time

 

[33dollars]

Eerrrr, sorry Genster & dgilmour, I got lost in Genster's photo blog. Some very nice pictures in there. Its as if i went on holiday with his whole family.
As many of your film pictures from your holidays had sun, sky & clouds. For contrast I would use a K2 yellow filter for B&W film. Ø46 should do it with no adjustment because the light meter reads through the filter. With out the meter add one stop of ½ your shutter speed.
For colour film just a UV filer would be the go.
I did like that wind swept tree next to the beach you never posted here.
Hay Genster! What scanner did you use to scan your neg's?

 

[Wiener]

Hi Genster,
I too was lost...but back to my days of TV addiction in the early 1970's...these photos replicate this feel perfectly!
However, as those were my 'mis-spent' teenage years, I have been trying to forget them ever since... :lol:
Andy

 

[Khortal]

i have a bag full of film that is is slowly moving past it's sell by date, i think these pictures may inspire me to open a can or so.
think it unlikely possible to care as much when shooting to a card, and dont believe that the 'reality' of time is 'held' as well as it is with film (i prefer Vinyl to CD

much appreciated Genster, cheers Kort .

 

[Genster]

Eerrrr, sorry Genster & dgilmour, I got lost in Genster's photo blog. Some very nice pictures in there. Its as if i went on holiday with his whole family.
As many of your film pictures from your holidays had sun, sky & clouds. For contrast I would use a K2 yellow filter for B&W film. Ø46 should do it with no adjustment because the light meter reads through the filter. With out the meter add one stop of ½ your shutter speed.
For colour film just a UV filer would be the go.
I did like that wind swept tree next to the beach you never posted here.
Hay Genster! What scanner did you use to scan your neg's?

Thanks for the reply and filter-tips Phil, much appreciated.
I have never used a filter, but as soon as if I have some more free time I will collect some more information about the different filters and how to use them.

I brought my film roll to a big drugstore chain to let them develop it. They delivered paper prints, negatives and also a CD. So I did not scanned them myself

 

[Genster]

Hi Genster,
I too was lost...but back to my days of TV addiction in the early 1970's...these photos replicate this feel perfectly!

Thanks Andy!

However, as those were my 'mis-spent' teenage years, I have been trying to forget them ever since... :lol:
Andy

:lol:

 

[Genster]

i have a bag full of film that is is slowly moving past it's sell by date, i think these pictures may inspire me to open a can or so.
think it unlikely possible to care as much when shooting to a card, and dont believe that the 'reality' of time is 'held' as well as it is with film (i prefer Vinyl to CD

much appreciated Genster, cheers Kort .

Thanks for your reply Kort.
I believe that a similar picture just have a little more 'character' than a digital picture. But for me the main reason to do it, is that it's just a lot of fun to shoot with an old camera and (for me) it's pretty exciting to wait one week (or longer) to see the results.
I hope to see some (digitized) analog pictures from you on the forum soon