A second roll of film, this time shot on an SLR rather than a rangefinder! The Ricoh KR-10 Super I picked up for dirt cheap, especially considering it came with an absolutely beautiful prime lens in the SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/2. The camera required one small repair (the front button that activates the lightmeter was broken) but other than that works flawlessly! Since then, the Ricoh KR-10 Super has become my go-to camera for all things film, and I don’t see that changing any time soon!
This roll was also edited using GIMP, rather than Snapseed (a mobile app to edit photos). The difference is night and day, and the workflow is considerably easier!
This was a roll of Ilford FP4+, shot at box speed.
Let’s start with the best frame of the roll by far. The detail on the leaves here is something I would never have been able to manage with the Konica C35, and the insanely blurred background was something only achievable with fine control over the aperture. This alone justifies the upgrade to an SLR!
Although we won’t see this camera for a while, I also picked up a Minolta Hi-Matic G rangefinder at the same time as the Konica C35. In all honesty, the Minolta works a hell of a lot better than the Konica, it’s just a shame it’s missing the self-timer the Konica has. On the other hand… there is everything else. We will see more of the Minolta in a later film roll! 
Macro flower frames! These have become a real favorite of mine, and I must shoot a few of these every roll. I like these flowers a lot, and walk past them most days. I have to remind myself: “you have already taken that photo, you don’t need another.” At times, I fail to stop myself. 
Oops, another macro flower shot? I should apologize, but I won’t. 
This shot, and the following one, were a test on the impact of aperture. Here, with f/2, the clocktower is kept in focus while the leaves in the foreground are blurry… 
… and here, at f/11, the leaves are in focus alongside the clocktower! Certainly helped me understand depth of field a little better. 
A macro shot of some crochet of mine. Shot wide open, since FP4+ is pretty slow, and this was indoors. I was trying to focus on the frontmost bird, so the fact the focal plane is on the items further back was not a great start… 
A nice shot of a river, but unfortunately not nearly enough light to get a really fast shutter speed. The result is motion blur in the water — but not even a tasteful, long exposure! Maybe if I had pushed a stop, or tried again another, brighter day, but oh well. 
Landscape shots quickly became a favorite of mine, although the 50mm lens was a little restricting in some places. I liked this exposure, but I think the clouds could use some additional oomph in the contrast department. 
It’s good to post failures, too! This was an attempt to shoot through a thicket and into a grotto. Unfortunately, there was minimal light, and I still didn’t have a tripod! I boosted the brightness in editing, but that didn’t help much when there simply wasn’t the detail to start with. 
Another failure. I was hoping this would be bright enough to get a neat picture of the treetops against the sky, but it was just a little too much to ask of a handheld shot. 
The light was fading by this shot, but I thought the film grain here was nice. You can tell I was really playing around with depth of field with this roll! 
Film spots! This was the worst frame in the roll for spots, which I put down to the hard water in my taps. When water dries on the film after developing, any minerals deposit as these spots. I could fix this in a few ways. Flowing agent is a common product that helps the water spill off cleanly rather than pool and evaporate. Distilled water would remove any minerals from the get-go. But I have since experimented with soap, which acts a little like flowing agent, and have reduced water spots to being almost unnoticeable. 
A nice, interesting rock. ‘Nuff said. 
The low angle, perhaps a little too low, but still nice enough. I like the detail on the gravel shifting from out-of-focus to in-focus. 
Have I mentioned that film does a very poor job at collecting details from the shadows? The bird on this streetlight is just a silhouette, but that’s fine by me. Being backlit by the sky certainly didn’t help! 
A little out of focus, or perhaps too slow a shutter for a handheld shot here. I don’t mind it, though. 
And one final exposure before heading home on this walk. These 24 frame rolls go by in a flash! 
