For the last few Sundays I’ve been trying to shoot at least one roll of film. The photos that I’ve taken have worked out pretty well, and I’m getting stoked on photography again.

I got my hands on an awesome Agfa Silette 1 the other day. Completely rad camera. The photos from this post are mostly from that camera + my Yashica Electra. (Both of these cameras are rangefinders, which will explain some of the focusing faux pas.)

I feel like there’s a certain freedom film gives me.

If I’d shot the photo above with my DSLR, I’d have looked at the screen and been like “Naa. . . this is lame.”

The Sunday + film thing has been largely informal for me, but I think I’m going to make it a goal to shoot one roll of film every Sunday. It’s a good way to mix it up for me and get my creative juices flowing.

One of the things that makes film so rad is the way it deals with very bright light. When you over expose a digital photo it just becomes white and will start to bleed into the parts that aren’t over exposed. Now don’t get me wrong, film does the same thing, but it just looks so much better.

I don’t know what’s up with the banding in some of these photos, I’m pretty sure it’s in Wallgreen’s crappy neg scanners.

I think for one roll of film I’m only going to shoot into the sun. Watch out.

I’m really stoked on this last photo. I haven’t taken a photos that I really like in a while. Some Sunday I’m going to only shoot double exposures.

Rad.

A while ago I joined the Critical Mass Facebook group thinking “Yeah, I’m totally going to attend!” Last Saturday I finally made good on that claim.

If you don’t know what Critical Mass is then I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on it. If you’re too lazy to read that a short explanation is this: It’s a big, fun bike ride.

This Critical Mass was especially rad because Shake Your Peace led an awesome ride ending in a performance by the band.

I bought a Yashica rangefinder the other day at a thrift shop & took it out last Sunday. This is the first time I’ve shot film in about a year, and it was nice to get back to that.

The thing about rangefinders is that since the viewfinder and the lens that takes the actual picture are different, you don’t know what’s in focus till the film is developed.

So not all of the photos I took Sunday are in focus, but it’s my first time with a rangefinder, so I feel like I’ll get better.

Since there’s no mirror to flip up (like on an SLR) rangefinders are much quieter when taking a photo. It’s nice to have a simple *click* instead of the *CHI-CHICHK* of my DSLR. Keeps the mood a lot more chill.

Anyway, how’s that for an update?

Also I haven’t had many comments, comments are what keep blogs going guys. GET TO IT.