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2009 seemed to be my year of a photographic fasting. I did very little in the picture taking area last year. This year I’d like to turn that around and dust off some of the cameras I’ve come to love.

To get things rolling I headed out to the state park block house in North Muskegon. I armed myself with my 30d and the Canon A-1 film camera. While you’ll get to see the digital shots right away (see below) I’m more excited about the stuff on film. The A-1 is equipped with a buttery 50mm 1.4 lens, buttery referring to the feel of the focus on it. It’s got none of that fancy auto focus business going, and you’ve gotta use your eye and coordination to work it (My coordination is getting better… I think).

Since the film I’ve got stockpiled can’t be developed at the local hour lab developer I’m faced with two options. Dig out the developer tank and reels from photo classes, or find an online outfit to handle things. While developing it myself wouldn’t be that tough, I’d still probably want to get digital with it to put online, so I’m leaning to the outsourcing option.

If you’ve got any leads on good places that will develop, scan, and mail the negatives to me let me know.

Here are some shots from today I rather enjoyed.

I’m also going to be on the lookout for some FD mount wide angle lenses to take another stab at night photography with film. If you come across anything, or your uncle has a few old lenses collecting dust, please let me know.