Author: KMSteamBloke

Now that I have caught up on my 120format film, I have taken the time to scan in the film I took using a Zeiss Ikon Contessa that I picked up when I first decided to get back into film a year or so ago. The images I took with this beautiful rangefinder were more […]

I had issues loading my film again in the C3. The back didn’t close properly and the counter reset itself after only two images. I thought I had figured out how far to turn the crank per image, but it turns out I was way off. I took notes for six images, but in reality, […]

With the snow settling in we took a trip to Oak Hammock Marsh. Not only was it a lovely day for a walk, but we took some lovely pictures. I am finding that I still struggle with thinking in black and find my images lack good contrast, geometry, or deep shadows. Thankfully, the Marsh isn’t […]

We took a walk around the Forks and I tried my new Mamiya C3 using my colour filters to make a colour image from the three black and whites. I was impressed with how it turned out. The day wasn’t terribly great being rather bland and overcast. The only issue seams to be horizontal lines […]

I did break down after doing some research and oohing and ahing over a few cameras. In the end I decided on a Mamiya C3. The big selling point was that I could buy other lenses down the line. I also like that it had a larger crank for advancing the film than the C2. […]

We took a walk around Winnipeg’s Exchange district. It is a great location with beautiful architecture and an interesting history. not only is it remembered as being the location of the General Strike of 1919, but is home to ghost signs – old advertisements painted onto the sides of buildings that have been there for […]

A Sunday walk took us out to Assiniboine Park again and we adventured out to the Air Force Heritage Park that was not too far away. I struggle both with good exposure … And with developing this roll of film as half of if suffered from streaks. That or my lens was really dirty. -KMSB

This roll takes us back to Assiniboine Park and out to Winnipeg’s floodway. The Bales made for great textured shots in black and white. -KMSB

I had had some troubles with my mum’s Voigtlander Brilliant from the start. The camera was first my grandfather’s who bought it in the displaced persons camp in Germany after the war. It came to Canada with him and to the logging camps where he worked for a year before earning the right to bring […]

A drive out of town had us stop in Cooks Creek where one of the churches hosts a grotto to Our Lady of Lourde. It was a challenging place to take pictures and it forced me to realize that I have a tendency to take my black and whites while still thinking in colour. I […]