Headed to Maui…

I’m off to Maui for the weekend. It’s not completely a vacation, but there’ll be plenty of time for fun. I’ve been trying to decide on what sort of camera to bring. I could bring my lovely Fujifilm X100F, or the earlier version I still own, the X100. I also have lots of other sorts of cameras around, mostly small pocketable things.

But…and isn’t there always a but? I’m thinking of taking a film camera and shooting B&W film. Why?

Well I just got a new Canon Canonet GIII QL17. Hmmm…not a new one. New to me is more like it.

This one was purchased off of eBay from a well-rated seller who did some repairs and also modded it with a Schottky diode to accept 1.5v batteries instead of the original 1.35v mercury cells.
You can read plenty about Canonets online so I won’t go into the details here, let’s just say I’m enjoying playing around with film again. I haven’t gotten any shots back from this camera yet so it may be that it doesn’t work at all…but I doubt that. It’ll work, anything wrong I’m afraid I’ll have to own.
So…digital or film? That’s the question. Maybe I’ll stick a pocket digital in my bag “just in case.” Is that cheating?
Here’s a shot from a low res scan shot with my Leica M3 with a Voigtlander 50mm lens. I was metering by hand and using Ilford HP5 400 ISO pushed to 800. Nice and contrasty. Good fun.

Maui no ka oi!