I don’t seem to have shot much recently which is not like me … I blame the early dark nights and rubbish weather.
Anyway I was moving a few of my camera bags around and came across a camera that I have not shot at all this year … my Bronica SQ-ai.
I have 2 lenses for it, the PS40mm f4 and PS80mm f2.8 I had the 40mm attached so I loaded it with a roll of ilford HP5+ and as the weather was pretty grim I rated the film at 800 iso to give me a bit of a chance hand holding the beast with a reasonable aperture/shutter setting.
I quickly burned through the roll and really enjoyed shooting with it, I don’t know why I don’t use it more as it felt great.
I have the metered prism finder also but I didn’t use it on this occasion and stuck with the waist level finder which didn’t slow me down at all.
As per usual HP5 looks lovely when pushed, plenty of detail and the shadow/highlight areas looked just fine.
I processed the roll using ilfotecHC 1+15 dilution for 6 minutes.
Anyway here are 11 images as I managed to lose the 1st frame while getting it out of my bag …. “I MUST PUT ON THE SHUTTER LOCK”
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tim dobbs photography 
lovely photos. I particularly enjoy the first one, the one with the pony, and the cracked glass door.
Thank you 🙂
Lovely stuff Tim – unmistakably yours.
The rear view of the bike is tops for me
Cheers mate … it was a pretty short walk, I should have taken more film along … I was snapping away like it was digital
I particularly like that first alley shot – awesome stuff
Happy New Year Tim
Andrew
Thank you Andrew … and a Happy New Year to you 🙂