Mju-Mju: January 2006

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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Cropping can be good

A quick crop and desaturate of one of the pics below and you get this. Which fills the picture more, I think. The Mju's viewfinder is offset and while I try to allow for this, in close-ups, it can be tricky to judge.

Then again, a "panoramic" crop can be fun too. The Mju's lens is sharp enough to let you play with stuff like this and still keep detail.

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Paris... Mon amour II.

Today's second Paris post. I don't spend a lot of time in churches as a rule (and that's an ideological rule, not just because I'm a backslider). However, I'm a sucker for St Chapelle, the famous church in Paris whose interior seems to have been hard-carved from stained glass. That's a lot of glass and two thirds of the glass dates back to the thirteenth century. I don't have any cameras that could do justice to this fabulous place and it's only thanks to Steve's wife, CJ, that I ever saw it at all. Last time I was there, I took the Mju and this is what I got. From what I can remember, I'd switched the flash off and had the spot pointing at the statue.

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Paris... Mon amour.

If you know me, you know I love Paris with a passion. These are two pics I took on my last trip. Both with the Mju. They're from the roll as the photo of the door in Tarragona below. These two ladies sit elegantly outside the Hotel de Ville - French for City Hall. If you look up at the City Hall behind them, you can see the basic principles of the French Republic chiselled into the stonework: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

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Tarragona

Tarragona is an ancient walled city about an hour's rail journey southwest of Barcelona, in Spain. During the Roman era, Tarragona - or Tarraco as it was then - was the leading city in the Roman province of Hispania and one of the leading cities in the Empire. The emperor Hadrian, famous for the wall built across northern England, was born here. It's still a gorgeous little town, full of history, museums, nice bars/cafes and things to see and well worth a visit if you're ever nearby. The history museum and the (free!) museum of modern art are especially recommended.

The pictures below show an ancient door I saw in a sidestreet. The b/w photo is a desaturated version of the colour photo. I like both. The film was Superia 200, which I am beginning to love with a passion. It's fabulous in bright light.

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No sooner said...

...than done. I have a new blog for medium format work. It's at http://6cmx6cm.blogspot.com/. It will include photos from the Lubitel, Holga and perhaps a couple from my old Rolleiflex.

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Lubitel photos

Yes, I know, I know, I'm drifting away from Mju-based 35mm purity. Anyway - I posted some photos I took with my Lubitel, which surprised me by how good they are. It took a while to get the hang of combining the magnifier with the ground glass and getting photos focussed, but once you do, they're pretty good for a Russian plastic camera bought used for £20.

This is an example of one. On the print the tree stands out from the background in an almost 3D way.

The rest of the photos are here.

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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Spammers

Thanks to the moronic antics of some spammers who seem to think we're stupid enough to believe their rubbishy ads, all comments will now come through my inbox in future.

Thank you, Blogger. Nice feature.

While I'm at it, I really should post more pics. But I haven't used my little Mju much recently. Been using an F75 and a 45mm pancake and my Lubitel instead. Maybe I need a wider blog... New blog! New blog! :-)

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