Eating dinner

Super Ricohflex, Ilford Delta 3200, f/3.5, 1/50

I am new to medium format, but I love it. Other than the venerable Holga, I have a Super Ricohflex TLR I picked up for a song. It's pretty tough taking pictures of a child unless she's sitting down...or at least not moving for a few seconds (yeah, right!) This is a snap from dinner time, made with available light. I processed the film in D-76, 1:1 dilution.

Medium format magic

I can't put my finger on it, but there's a look to medium format that's different that 35mm or digital. I'm sure it has to do with the size of the format, but since my experience is limited on the subject I cannot put it into words. All I know is, I like it.





These shots were made with my Super Ricohflex TLR of 1950s vintage, metered with a 1940s GE selenium light meter. Both shots are wide open at f/3.5, hence the vignetting. The film is Arista EDU 100 from Freestyle photo (widely rumored to be Fomapan). It's not my favorite film, but the price is right and I really dig these photos.