I haven’t been shooting that much film lately and I finally dropped a few rolls off to get developed yesterday. It’s kind of fun when the photos on the rolls are taken in so many different places. I think I had photos from like four different trips on there. The photos I posted below are from Seattle, New York, Portland, and Vancouver… and I have a few more that I’m going to post on the MacNeil site from our Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa trip.
My sisters last weekend when Andrew and I were in Seattle. We took them to the skatepark/real park, out for pizza, and finished with some ice cream. Can’t beat a day like that!
Andrew in Seattle
Apartments in New York.
My brother in our hotel room in New York wearing a hat my mom made him buy… He actually wore it out all night and I’m pretty sure he wore it on the plane on the way home as well… I wonder where it is now??
Hamilton had a huge beard before our trip to New York. My mom was throwing a family party for Michaela and I and wanted Hamilton to shave the beard. He didn’t really want to shave it, but being the nice son he is, he was going to do it for our mom. The night before we flew out, his friends talked him into shaving in a handlebar mustache, soul patch, and huge sideburns just to freak our mom out… I don’t know what happened because the plan backfired and our mom actually liked it… I’m pretty sure she’s crazy, cus I thought he looked ridiculous!! He ended up rocking it on the flight out and even kept it for a few days, but shaved it before the party. Once we got back from NY, I didn’t see him for a few weeks, but by the time I did, he had grown the full beard back in…
Some shots from Nemo in Portland.
If you ever wonder what a photographer carries in his bag, this is a good example. This is the contents of David Lang’s camera bag strewn out on a table back stage at the Commodore in Vancouver before a Jokers Of The Scene/Deadmou5 show a few months back.
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I’ve been on the hunt for a new film camera for a while. I lost my Yashica T4 in Vegas last October and started the hunt looking for a new point and shoot. I had decided I was going to go with a Contax T2 rather than a Yashica and bid on a few T2′s on ebay. I’m not up on all the ebay secretes and was out bid at the last second on all the cameras I was into. I wasn’t in a rush, so I kept my eye out and continued to read up on the cameras. I’ve been into Contax for a while and have always liked the G1′s and G2′s, their rangefinders. I bought my first rangefinder, a Canon Canonet, on ebay a little over a year ago and have had a lot of fun with it. I recently just started using the flash and shot a few photos at this Red Bull DJ thing I went to with the MacNeil crew (check the photos here).
After a post I did on Defgrip about point and shoot cameras, I got a lot of emails from friends giving me feedback on the p&s cameras they have and what they think I should get. Everyone was backing up the T2, but for some reason, I was feeling like I wanted more of a camera right now. I had finally decided what I was going to get and my plan was to get a T2 now and a G2 for the summer… I’m not sure what happened, but that plan quickly went south when Chad Moore pointed me to keh.com. They had a nice selection of Contax and a lot of options for the G2′s. Michaela and I had decided to get each other wedding gifts. I got here some earrings at Tiffany’s, but I had yet to pick my gift… What better way to spend someone you love’s money than on cameras… So that was pretty much it. The gift/keh… I was going for the G2.
I picked up a body that is in amazing condition… Looks brand new. I went with the f2 45mm lens and a TLA 200 flash and since you can never ship anything good to Canada, I had it shipped to my mom’s in Seattle. I picked the camera on my way to Portland and have had nothing but good luck with it. The quality and clarity of the photos are amazing and I’m super psyched I went with the G2. I’m still trying to get comfortable with the autofocus, but things like that come with time behind the lens.
I still think I’ll pick up a T2 because there is nothing like throwing a camera in your back pocket, but I’m not sure if I’ll use anything more than the G2 for a long time. Here’s a few shots of the first roll I ran through it. I think the film was just some drugstore bought Fuji Super HQ and I got them processed and scanned at the drug store… No better way to go! Hahaha. Oh, the photos are from a little poker game that I definitely didn’t win at Chris Martindale, Casey, and Josh’s place, with Josh Kechloian, Brian Chase, Burley, and Andrew McMullen.
You can check out all my G2 photos on Flickr here.
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