better left unsaid

I bought a cheapo cam­era to get my foot in the medium for­mat door. I couldn’t afford a decent setup so I decided to buy some­thing cheap and try my hand at it to see if I liked it. Hav­ing never shot the for­mat before, it didn’t take long for me to get hooked. The square frame, the waist-level finder. It all just felt right.

Too bad the lens on this cam­era was such a piece of junk. It suf­fered from severe vignetting at any­thing other than f16, and even then it was bad. This shot was one of my very first and it was enough to get me hooked. I really like the depth-of-field on this shot, but I had to crop it because of the ridicu­lous vignette. It still works I think, but it wasn’t long after that shot that I went look­ing for a bet­ter camera.

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Cam­era: Yashica A
Lens: Yashimar 80mm
Fil­ter: none
Film: Kodak 400TX
Devel­oper: Kodak XTOL 1+1
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 9 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius
Date: July, 2005
Loca­tion: 53.94714,-122.80079
Copy­right: 2005 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: blackandwhite · britishcolumbia · mediumformat
Posted in: Photographs

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