Back from Maui in B&W…

I’d love to say I’ve got some shots to show you from Maui, especially since I was all over the map there…but no…at least not yet. As I said I would, I took the Canonet with me and shot in B&W. I’ve dropped the film off to be processed and am hopeful the camera worked well…but I’ve not clue.
Isn’t film fun?
With digital cameras you know right away if you’ve gotten the shot you wanted. It might not be quite right, but you can tell you’ve at least gotten something. Not so with film. It goes double for a rangefinder because you can leave the cap on the lens and never know.

That isn’t quite what you’d see, but you get the idea. That’s actually a bit of the leader film from my Voigtlander Symbolica.

It’s a fun little camera that I’ve found is mostly out of focus. It’s a zone focus camera which means pretty much everything you think is in focus isn’t, but something else probably is.

You can get things more or less right though and it is fun.
Okay, now for the big news. Since I last shot film, really not that long ago, it’s become quite expensive to process. Back when I started getting back into film a decade ago you could still drop film off at a box store, have it processed (admittedly not with supreme care) and scanned to CD all in a couple of hours. You’d even get your negatives back. No more. Pretty much every place I know of here in Hawaii has stopped that practice.
Luckily you can still get film developed and scanned, delivered online even, but it’s more expensive as it’s far more of a niche market than it was before. Sigh.
I’ve been using Treehouse over at SALT in Kakaako. I can highly recommend them. They do send out the film, but it’s great little shop specializing in this particular niche market. Go check ‘em out.
But I’ve come to realize it’s going to get expensive to have my rolls scanned. I’m not complaining, but I’m not continuing to pay either. Or rather, I’ll be paying, but only once. Yes, I’ve ordered myself a 35mm film scanner. I’ll probably do a terrible job, at least at first, but it’ll save me around $15 a roll and that adds up fast. I’ve gone ahead and gotten a Pacific Image Prime Film XA. Here’s a link to a good article over at 35mmc. I’m getting mine from Amazon as they just aren’t sold here.
That’s about all I’ve got for today. I’m doing a little shooting as I walk around, today it’s a Nikon EM using some color 200 ISO Fuji consumer grade film. Not a rangefinder for a change! We’ll see.