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Fujifilm TX-1 / Super-EBC Fujinon 45/4 / Kodak Gold 400 / Epson V550  This one's very simple.  A bicyclist is quite literally riding the line (well, visually; if you look closely I think they're an inch or a few to the left of it) between the bike lane and the general street.  As far as early shots with the Fujifilm TX-1 go, I think this one still acquits itself quite well; tricky format or no, there are many panoramic opportunities in a city. I could look into the specifics, but this was probably taken within the first week or two of ownership-- on the fourth roll I put through the camera, from the looks of it.  As with the "Child & Guardian x 2", I was still digitizing images at this point with my V550, so there's a bit of fuzziness to be had here. As far as how this image presents, I think it's pretty clear that the bicyclist is the first thing to jump out.  Viewers might initially lock onto the bright orange of the traffic barriers, but the foreground/...

  Leica R8 / Leica Macro-Elmarit-R 60/2.8 / Unknown / Epson V550 "Child & Guardian x 2" is a very old photo, taken in mid-2016 on a 400-speed black and white film that I apparently never tagged in Lightroom.  Regardless, I was playing around with the Leica R8, an odd (if lovely) 35mm SLR and the Macro-Elmarit-R 60/2.8.  The lens itself is outrageously sharp (as shown by the example image of my cat below, taken on the 10MP Leica DMR digital back).  Any lack of detail in the shot above is due to the combination of scanner and my lack of experience at the time (and I really ought to re-digitize this one). Leica R8 / Leica Macro-Elmarit-R 60/2.8 60mm is a bit of an odd focal length for a walkabout lens, but it was what I had at the time.  I was working in the finance sector on the east side of Manhattan, and there was a little plaza near my office that I'd often go to during lunch. Fortuitously, I spotted this picture-perfect arrangement of two older folks and k...

  This is a near-full rewrite of an article that was originally shared on Casual Photophile in August 2024. In addition to tweaking some content, I also wanted to correct a technical error and address some formatting issues that arose during publication. All photos in this article were taken by me, and were exported as JPEGs 2000px on the long axis. In 2016, I bought a camera, two lenses, and a bag full of accessories that completely changed my relationship with photography. At the time, I was on a rangefinder kick (via the Leica M6 TTL and Minolta CLE) and had also been dabbling with medium format (using a Mamiya 645, Bronica SQ-A, and a motley assortment of others) on the side. Within a year, everything else was gone. In the near-decade since, I’ve occasionally tried to get back into “regular” 3:2 shooting through various compacts, but none of them had any staying power. I liked some of them conceptually, sure, but… …I was too hooked on the Fujifilm TX-1, a 35m...