If you’ve been following our camera adventures over the years, you know of our Camera Speed Dating blog. We occasionally still find a different camera in our possession or friends to try out, though we have slowed down a bit. We love sharing our results with these different, sometimes curious or tricky cameras though, so…
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April 14th 2021. Wednesday 11:00am. Coal Harbor – Nicole: actually my story starts before this- if you recall last summer I got myself a Seneca 4×5 and put a Kodak folding camera lens on it. (See previous blog post – https://www.beauphoto.com/cameras-and-croissants-seneca-kodak-hybrid-4×5-camera/ ) however that lens’ widest aperture, f11, was less than satisfactory for handheld…
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February 25th 2021. Thursday. 7pm. Vancouver – Nicole: previously I had taken my Rolleicord Vb out with Ilford Delta 3200 and used it to take photos of building entrance ways at night. However, the widest aperture on that camera is f3.5, the slowest shutter speed I was willing to go was 1/60 (I’m hand-holding). My…
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February, 4th 2021. Thursday. 6pm. Vancouver – Nicole: Recently I got myself a Nikon F with a photomic metered prism. I found the photomic prism extremely heavy to say the least, I also found classic non-metered prisms extremely expensive. I was complaining to my friend, Alex, about this and turns out he had previously made…
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December 12th 2020. Saturday 9:00am. Vancouver – Nicole: This was one of the only blue sky days we got in December and I made the most of it! I got up to some crazy fog off my balcony and immediately thought of how perfect it was that the camera I planned on shooting that day…
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January 11th, 2021. Saturday. 2:30pm. The Corner of Thurlow & Davie – Nicole: So as of late our camera testing has dwindled and has NOT included snacks, this is the reason for our blog’s re-naming. Firstly I blame the rain, secondly Covid-19. That being said both Meghan and myself still jumped at the chance to…
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My friend Bruce and I both got the same camera the same week! So we decided to shoot them straight away and pool our thoughts. This is what Bruce had to say – “I recently came into the ownership of one of the smallest rangefinder cameras ever made. It has the distinction of having an…
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For a while now I’ve been struggling with this camera, a friend gave it to me though so I can’t give up. Its specs lead me to believe using it would result in good photos. It has a f/1.7 lens, so it should do alright in low light! On the first roll I shot I…
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So a few weeks ago I posted about the loss of my beloved Rolleicord Va. In that blog I mentioned how a Beau Photo customer took pity on me and sold me his Rolleicord Vb. There are few differences between the Va and Vb, the most prominent one being the ability to change out the…
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I have an ongoing beef with 4×5 cameras and how much they weigh. I mean I suppose I could cough up enough cash to buy a Carbon Fiber 4×5 camera, but would I even use it enough to ever warrant spending thousands…? That aside my eyes are always peeled for light-weight 4×5 solutions. Earlier this…
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