We had a week to shoot a roll (or sheet) of Ilford FP4 film, and I chose 135 format roll, with a full 36 images to go through.
I started slow, Monday zoomed by, and I haven’t found time for not a single frame, but Tuesday was a good day – I went to a nearby park and took seven photos. Wednesday was not bad, too – took a walk near the marshalling yard, and took another six photos. Thursday was the best – another walk near the marshalling yard, a walk through the park and over the nearby bridge took me a few hours, but that was good for the full fifteen photos, almost half a roll! That adds up to 28 photos, leaving me with ten photos at most, and I had plans for a weekend. So weekend it was, I managed to finish a roll with an additional nine photos on Saturday, in my father’s vineyard.
Aside from my zoom and three primes, I’ve added additional zoom, consumer-grade, variable-aperture 70-200mm lens for those days when I couldn’t carry a separate camera bag – basically every day aside last two. I kept the camera in its program mode (or HyperProgram, as Pentax MZ-S calls it). Program mode on this camera generally makes pretty good decisions, biasing more depth of field over fast shutter speeds – just like I would do. I wrote down info about each photo, as I usually do – on my phone, using the Exif Notes app, but the camera records exposure info on film borders as well.
All in all, it was quite an intense experience, 36 photos in just four days, a lot of walking around and working for each shot.
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