Frames from the chaos archive. A visit to the flight museum in Schleissheim during an event day.
Frames from the chaos archive. Pictures from the Zugspitze during cloudy weather.
Frames from the chaos archive. Pictures taken with a long focal length.
Frames from the chaos archive. Somewhere on the Stanford University campus and in the San Francisco area.
This was one of my first trips to Neuschwanstein and one of my first trips with the Rollei SL 35 E. The camera has the somewhat annoying problem that once in a while when it gets cold, the mirror gets stuck. A hearty slap will get it unstuck, but that triggers the shutter and the camera takes a picture right at that moment. Most of the pictures from this roll from my chaos archives are at weird angles, often upside down with a horizon along the diagonal. The frames I chose for this post are a selection of the few images that at least somewhat make sense.
“If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”, or in this case “If you can open up to f/1.2, everything NEEDS to be shot at f/1.2.”. A photographer’s folly, no doubt. One that I seem to have fallen for with this roll of black and white film from my chaos archives. I shot the Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 mostly wide open during my trip to Las Vegas and Death Valley. Unbeknownst to me, the lens is soft as a ball of fur when fully open. Thus, I ended up with mostly the cuddly end of the image stick. Initially, looking at the set of photos, I thought I would not even be able to find more than one frame for this post. Only 2 frames were actually sharp on the whole roll. Everything else is so soft, it would not leave a dent in a piece of molten butter. But in the end, I decided to embrace the artsy side and chose what you see here.
I took the Leica M4-P on a trip to New York a few years ago. The images are from my chaos archive and had a strong red color cast removed. I filled two rolls of Fuji Superia (probably 200 or 400) and thus decided to go for a 10 frames post.
Edit: I just noticed that I already did the “5 Frames - New York With A Leica M4-P” story. This time it is 10 frames, though.
The second part of a trip to Ibiza.
Edit: I just noticed that I already did the “5 Frames - Ibiza With A Leica M4-P And Voigtländer Color Skopar 35mm f/2.5 VM II Pancake” before. This time it is 14 frames in total.
The first part of a trip to Ibiza. This was one of my first excursions with the Leica M4-P, packing the Voigtländer 35mm Color-Skopar f/2.5 and some rolls of Fuji Superia 200 and 400. The images are from my chaos archive, which means that I had to do some color corrections. As I was putting the rolls into the checked-in luggage, I assume that the weirdness in the images is from x-ray radiation.
Edit: I just noticed that I already did the “5 Frames - Ibiza With A Leica M4-P And Voigtländer Color Skopar 35mm f/2.5 VM II Pancake” before. This time it is 14 frames in total.
I had the pleasure to go to a conference in Las Vegas followed by a road trip with a colleague up to San Francisco through Death Valley, past Lake Tahoe, and through Sacramento. On that trip, I brought along my trusty Nikon F5 with the rock-solid but soft (wide open) Nikkor 50mm f/1.2. It has been a while, and I dug the images up from my messy archives, so I am not sure what film stock was used. Probably something like Fuji Superia, which I liked to use around that time. The images had a strong red color cast, which I tried to correct in post. I filled multiple rolls during that trip, so I thought it would be appropriate to extend the usual 5 frames to double the amount.
