A friend and I decided to practise our macro photography at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Newlands one morning. I used a Vivitar macro zoom less made for a film camera (one of my grand-father’s lenses) on my digital SLR and she used her new digital macro lens. I had to play around with exposure and manual focus which […]
Cape Town
Muizenberg & the 20mm Vivitar
The 20mm Vivitar was one of the lenses that I inherited from my grandfather and has fungus growing inside it. Part of the lens can’t be opened up, but the part that can be has been cleaned. Anyway, it’s all manual focus and exposure and the fungus remaining still gives the photos an experimental feeling with distortion at […]
My Sister
Years after my grand-father died, my uncle gifted me with my grand-father’s old film camera gear. A few of the Nikromat lens mounts work with my current digital film camera, but it’s challenging to use since most of the focus and exposure is manual. It’s kind of useful though, to help me to get in touch with the […]