Though it's been stereotypically grey and wet English weather all this week, for a week or there was some nice autumnal weather. In one Japanese lesson, my Japanese teacher was talking about leaves changing, and asked the class whether the leaves went yellow or red on trees in England. Considering there was a massive bright red, autumnal tree outside the window one of my fellow students answered that they went red and also yellow. My teacher smiled and said, "No, in Japan they go red, but in England, they only go yellow". Very surreal. Anyway, here are a few shots from around SOAS this autumn.
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Yesterday, I picked up a brand new secondhand Canonet from Mac's Cameras. While it's not the ubiquitous QL17 (which I still want to pick up), it is a nice little introduction into Rangefinders. I think that when taking the first shots, I probably shouldn't have used a film that was 3 years past the use-by date. The shots came back really grainy, though I'm not sure if that's the film (it was a 200 ISO), or the camera or me or what? Next time I'm going to try with a slightly better film.
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After going to the Moriyama exhibition, I wanted to see how my T2 performed with some B&W film, so I bought some Fuji 1600. The shots are obviously quite grainy, but I like how they turned out. If anything, the grainyness adds something to them. The first one below is my favourite, but I think I will need to experiment a little more before I can really get to grips with it. Not bad though at 900円 a roll to develop.
