Duke SMIF labs

Nikon FG-20
Nikon Ai 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens
Nikon Series-E 50mm f/1.8 lens
Fujicolor Superia 400 35mm film

Dejarnette Nostalgia

Mamiya C220
Mamiya-Sekor 80mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak T-Max 400 120 film

[taken Spring 2007]

Fun with Lasers

Nikon D3
Nikon AF 60mm f/2.8 macro lens

Downtown Asheville

Mamiya C220
Mamiya-Sekor 80mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak T-Max 400 120 film

Shot Fall semester 2006.

Katie's Secret Mill

Mamiya C220
Mamiya-Sekor 80mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak T-Max 100 120 film

Katie Minton showed me around the place my first semester at RCC. It's an abandoned mill in Randolph County. It sits by a river that has swallowed much of the structure. I don't remember how to get to it, and being her secret location, Katie would never tell me.

Shot Fall semester 2006.

Late Night B&W Processing

Nikon F2
Nikon Ai 16mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak Plus-X 125 35mm film

BioTour Bus Shoot

Nikon F2
Nikon Ai 16mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak Plus-X 125 35mm film

The BioTour Bus was camped-out in downtown Raleigh when Bryan Regan, the photographer I'm interning with, just happened upon one of the riders.

And so an impromptu photoshoot began shortly after.

Bryan's photos can be seen on his blog here.

www.biotour.org

Fisheye Fortepan

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Nikon F2
Nikon Ai 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens
Fortepan 400 35mm film

I've never used Fortepan black and white before. I picked it up from the expired film bin at Peace Camera out of curiosity (expired 2007). It's not a bad film, but nothing I'd go out of my way to acquire. I still know little about it, but it seemed to behave like any-other tradition B&W (T-Max-esque) film. The only difference: it required a 11.5 minute developing time in D-76 (at 20°C) for its defined ISO of 400. Though, on its developing instructions described this time as more appropriate for 200 ISO (huh?).

The fisheye lens I'm borrowing from Bryan, the photographer I'm currently interning with. I really enjoy wide angle lenses. I consider the Nikon Ai 20mm f/2.8, that I often check out from school, as my all-time favorite (full-frame) lens. But after shooting with the Nikon Ai 16mm f/2.8 lens, it kind of seems like too much. It's definitely a fun lens to play with, and maybe the roll of Scotchchrome I also shot while using it will reveal better results, but it just seemed difficult to control. There is nothing the lens doesn't see (180° FOV) but at the same time, everything not near the center is too distorted to see well. But mounted to my Rebel XT (using an F-to-EOS adapter) it becomes a nice, average wide angle, 25.5mm equivilent lens.

*ok, so that last one was actually Plus-X