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Nostalgic pleasure #2

The photo below is another one  from my little experiment   in  nostalgic pleasures: ie., using expired 35mm Fuji Velvia 50  film  exposed at 20 ASA, handholding  a  reconditioned  1960s  Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex Super SLR with its inbuilt light meter,  a 35mm f.3.2 Zeiss Pro-Tessar lens,    and  having the  film processed  with  E-6 chemistry  in Adelaide. 

Nostalgic pleasure in this case is pre-digital analogue technology that  was disrupted by digital technology in the early 21st century.  The digital camera industry collapsed between 2010-2012 due to the emergence of the smartphone killing off  the entry-level camera market ( point-and-shoot cameras) which shrunk nearly to nonexistence.

The photo is a cloud study at  Waitpinga  in the late afternoon  during the winter months:

On this occasion I  continued  making  several  cloud studies as the storm clouds rolled in from the south-west,   the light was  fading  and dusk was falling.  The photos that work the best are those  with colour whilst  the starker light/black ones made  as the light faded were flat and dull.  That minor experiment highlights how Velvia 50 needs vivid colour (color saturation and vibrancy) for it to come into its own. 


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