Cottonwood Leaves and Raindrops, Number One

I bought a cheapo camera to get my foot in the medium format door. I couldn’t afford a decent setup so I decided to buy something cheap and try my hand at it to see if I liked it. Having never shot the format before, it didn’t take long for me to get hooked. The square frame, the waist-level finder. It all just felt right.

Too bad the lens on this camera was such a piece of junk. It suffered from severe vignetting at anything other than f16, and even then it was bad. This shot was one of my very first and it was enough to get me hooked. I really like the depth-of-field on this shot, but I had to crop it because of the ridiculous vignette. It still works I think, but it wasn’t long after that shot that I went looking for a better camera.

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Camera
Yashica A
Lens
Yashimar 80mm
Filter
none
Film
Kodak 400TX
Developer
Kodak XTOL 1+1
Development
Small tank for 9 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius
Date
July, 2005
Location
53.94714,-122.80079
Copyright
2005 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.