Amuse Bouche in NYC - Year 2 - Part 4 (color)

Here is some of the color film I shot. This was my first experience with Kodak Ektar 100, a slow-speed (by today's standards) modern film based on motion picture stock, the self-proclaimed finest-grained color negative film available. It seems purplish, which I have corrected for in some cases. I removed a misfired shot that looks like it was of the ground. This is from my M645 with the 80mm 1.9. I mistakenly scanned some of these at low resolution because they looked out of focus since I didn't focus the scanner before previewing. If I get a chance, I'll try and look at an enlargement to judge those grain claims, but at that speed, it's difficult to get decent depth-of-field handheld.

Ektar 100 - 6x4.5 cm

At the apartment in which we stayed.

Outside the same. Most of the group blinked despite my non-use of flash.

Near B&H Photo/Video superstore in Chelsea, NYC. Discrepancy between golden hour highlights and bluish shadows was tricky, I haven't done a very good job. This was just after I bought a lens cap, filter, and lens hood for this camera.

A lens that fast wide open vignettes a *lot*.

With a more detailed scan, you could count those bricks.

This kept being greenish; I can't figure out why.

Social commentary.

Not bad for index-focusing/prefocusing and not looking through the viewfinder.

This is me doing street photography. I can... I just normally choose not to.

And here is photography of a street. With a police cruiser that I didn't see because the mirror was up. The mirror tends to stick up in the cold, which is inconvenient but innocuous.

Beyond this point there was really not enough light.

But I wanted this shot so badly, so I took it anyway.

Not as well the second time, but closer, removing a sign which I cropped out on the above image.

In my excitement to rejoin my group, I apparently failed to focus on them. Focusing a lens that fast in dim light is tricky even with a microprism-spot focusing screen, at least on medium format, and focus-error is not easily forgiven. With a split-image rangefinder maybe, but I'm not a huge fan of those and this camera doesn't have one anyway.