Sunday, September 23rd, 2007...11:24 am
How I fell in love with my Canon Canonet QL17 G-III

Fish Stall Crop
Originally uploaded by ZMB.
I picked up some photos yesterday from Boots. I had enquired in several places around the town if they developed black and white films, to be told that they didn’t anymore. Boots, fortunately, still develop black and white, but I had to wait two weeks for the prints.
In the old days I would have developed and processed the film myself, but I just don’t have the time to do that anymore.
For the first time in ages, nearly all the photos in the pack were, I felt, worthy of scanning and uploading to flickr. Naturally, I cropped and edited a few once they were scanned.
The film I used was Rollei Retro 100 and my new favourite camera - my Canon Canonet QL 17 G-III.
4 Comments
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Turkey was great. Went white water rafting. Also had a fairly hair raising ride on a bus up to a castle, which put Linda off going on a jeep safari. xxxxx
September 24th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
You could try chromogenic film like XP2 or Fuji Neopan c41? It ain’t proper mono but really handy as you get the prints in an hour if you so wish.
I mostly shoot Neopan ( a variant of XP2 actually ) and I used to shoot the kodak stuff.
For colour, Fuji Reala really rocks in the QL.
I haven’t tried transparency film in it yet…been a while since i shot any.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
some really great pictures on this flickr - I just went through a few 100!
September 29th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
M - I had a hair raising ride in a jeep in Mexico, though I was too travel sick to focus on anything outside the jeep. I’m not sure if that was a blessing in disguise or not.
MFG - thanks for the recommendations. I’ve used the XP2 many times and the Fuji Reala, but I’ve never tried thee Neopan.
LA - a few hundred, blimey! Glad you like them.
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