Trying out Konica C35 FD with monochrome 35mm film

A trip to China offered me an opportunity to bring along my rangefinder Konica C35 FD (aka auto S3) for a wild spin. I was much eager to try out the latitude of the Delta 100 Pro and Lucky SHD100New monochrome film and of course the camera's metering and exposure accuracy. Backing this trip with my smallish digital Panasonic DMC-ZR3 just in case I wouldn't miss out on any nice good take.


The chinese-made Lucky SHD100 appears to be smoother (ie the naxi woman & the trail) and less grainier than Delta 100Pro (the woods) though I wouldn't mind using both of them occasionally as long as their price is justified and economical. Knowing their latitude probably make sense for various photographic occasions.

My Konica FD served me well on my trip to Kunming, Dali and lijiang with every opportunity to snap on anything monochromatic- like old buildings and rock etc which is quite redundant anyway for colour films.



Rangefinder cameras are known to rather quiet since there is no noisy flipping mirrors like those SLRs and this Konica did just that during the trip. Adding any colour filters to this camera is easy without any manual adjustment with its TTL's metering.

I definitely have to try out some night scenes with colour films with this camera on my next few takes. By then who knows how those photos might turn out!

 


My Konica C35FD set can also be viewed in flicker
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/68719137@N04/)