Analogue Photography

It’s that #FEF #frontendfriday thing again, so much loved by #hashtag aficionados far and wide. 

Some you you might think that monochrome Monday has come a few days early due to me running out of colour tokens. But this shot actually required a greater budget than digital colour because it was taken on traditional black and white film with the additional costs of film purchase and subsequent processing. But I do admit that the camera, a Nikon FE was bought and paid for back in 1989 when I acquired it secondhand all those years ago, so that aspect is negligible. 

I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is standing in the doorway of the colliery winding house, possibly checking it out as a new spot to temporarily produce moonshine. 

Peter Peckett leans out of his cab and appears to be chatting to pipe smoking (something exotic from his greenhouse no doubt) Ivan Locksmith. Ivan is accompanied by the very wise Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse. Hubert being such a clever horse, is learning conversational English, for whilst his Latin skills are exceptional, only old school Tory Party members can understand him, of course Ivan who is from ‘posh stock’, having also been educated at Eton.

Bene vale, Huberte, satis scio te facturum, nam tu tam ingeniosus es equus 🐎

Analogue capture using Ilford HP 5 black and white film which gives a gritty image, something I quite like. The camera, a Nikon FE with a 35mm Nikkor is set at f22 for maximum depth of field requires a 1/4 second exposure. I quite like this lens, for it focuses very close. I regularly use it with my digital Nikons. 1/4 of a second is far too slow for hand holding, so it’s resting an some spare plywood left over from a laser cut baseboard kit. 

The camera is then fired remotely using a cable release. The object on the right is my old Weston Master 5 light meter, I bought secondhand in 1983 - it was made sometime between 1963 and 1972. It’s selenium powered, so needs no batteries. The camera has built in metering, but I like to double check with the old meter. They both matched pretty well. Click

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35mm film purchase and processing fund www.buymeacoffee.com/Nevardmedi3