So one day I got up and decided to fish out the old and seemingly working rangefinder that I got from a friend who went to St. Petersburg last year. I have never used it since so I decided to rock up to Big W and bought a Kodak Ultramax 400, load the camera and start shooting. What makes it even more interesting is that, unlike all the other cameras I own, this has no light metering whatsoever. Which means I have to make an educated guess on assessing the available light. To add another level of complexity, this rangefinder only has 4 shutter speeds to choose from and the aperture can be adjusted continuously (unlike discrete jumps in most cameras) and as an obvious point, manual focus with no indication of the focus plane. As if it wasn't challenging enough, the day that I decided to shoot just so happened to be overcast which means the time tested Sunny f16 Rule just became the not so used I-Think-It's-This-Kind-Of-Overcast-f6.3 "Rule". All of this thinking, "Is this camera properly light sealed? Is 1/60th setting really firing at 1/30th?" etc. Yeah, I tend to pick the most complicated things to do at the worst times. Also evident when I decide to try something radically different cooking.
What came out of that was surprising to say the least. All but one of the shots were exposed properly though some are a little overexposed. I didn't manage to use all of the film because the winding mechanism got wonky at one stage that I thought I had finished the film already. And so here are the Big W processed, untouched save cropping the half frames and rotating, rubbishly scanned shots.
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