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Minolta Dynax 5, 35-105mm, Fomapan200. "Many Steps"

Minolta Dynax 5, Fomapan 200 Gritstone of the Dark Peak District.

Some of the images from my entry to another group, Watergrove reservoir was completed in 1930, where the village of the same name once stood. The village and many of the surrounding farmhouses were demolished. The corner of a wall around the dam incorporates many of the date stones and other...

I bought a Cosina 19-35mm lens for my Minolta Dynax camera..... out for a few test shots. I like this, it will be a fun lens to try new perspectives. I also tried my 24-70mm lens on a Pentax MZ7 (after my MZ5 died with the dreaded mirror fault) and that is quite wide and fun too.

Could be a good theme! I was going to suggest someone sitting on the can and a scene from Bates' motel shower (shower curtain, steam and a big dagger in hand), but then I realised that you meant photos for hanging in the bathroom, not taken in the bathroom! How about dried, cracked mud in...

Just for good measure....here's a couple that didn't work due to the relative position of thin cloud. Overexposure of the sky scene would have helped "thicken" up the clouds. All good experience!

I had another go at making an image with a double moon, by double exposure. Last time, a few things went wrong in the developing, so I hoped to do better this time. My rubber hood got in the way, maybe not the right hood for wide angle. The "moons" are a melon and a small ball stuck to it...

A couple from my Agfa ISOLY 100 camera on Fomapan200 Love the pincushion distortion in this one.

AGFA ISOLY 100 Another very basic camera. Looks good and has a nice shutter release feel. Fixed focus with most likely, a two element lens (I can only see two reflections in the lens) and a virtually flat film plane, promising significant distortion at the frame edges. There are three icons...

My particular party trick was to wind on more than one cassette with the gate closed, wondering why it is more resistant than normal. I have lots of film rolls for testing cameras. Haven't done that for a while.....maybe I'm cured!

The rolls I have used are not fixed to anything, the end just comes out without resistance. On my loaders, each frame wound out is accompanied by a click and an incrementing counter, although I don't use the counter, just count the clicks. When the clicks stop the film has finished.

We had a few days in the Norfolk Broads. Dynax 5, 35-105mm (nearly always at 35mm or very near, I should buy a prime). St Benet's abbey gatehouse. In the 1720s a wind pump was built over the remains of the structure and incorporates an arch and wall from the original.

No... All the stations were open whilst we were there. Carrog has a nice, period interior.

Dynax 5 with 35-105mm zoom. Fomapan200 Carrog station. (Llangollen Heritage railway line).

From my great day out in Manchester. "Free Samples" Dynax 5 35-105mm, Kodak Ultramax400.