Film Washington, DC with the Ricoh GR1

matthewm

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Location
Sumter/Charleston, SC
Name
Matthew Morse
Last weekend, my wife, her parents and myself took a drive up to Washington, DC for a little impromptu vacation. I normally take a ton of gear that I don't really need when I travel (like last summer on my honeymoon out west when I took a 5D, 17-40, Contax TVS, Fuji Klasse, Canon G10, Horizon 202 and a Manfrotto Tripod). Not only do I tend to take too much gear, but I tend to spend too much time trying to figure out what to use when and where and my shoulders hate me for several days on my return from lugging around a bunch of crap I don't need (in my defense, I was carrying a rather large backpack out west so the gear was easily carried and my wife's 5D failed during the trip so she took my 5D and I shot with my 35mm compacts and the G10 the whole time which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, really).

Anyway, on this particular trip, I decided to go small. I recently grabbed a Ricoh GR1 from one of the other forums (a camera I've been lusting after for quite some time) and for some digital fun, I packed my Canon 5D and the 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens (a very capable lens and one I'm very glad to own for just these occasions where I want a seriously compact serious SLR). Here are a few shots from my trip to DC with the GR1 shot on Kodak BW400 (Yes, I cheated and got the C-41 stuff...). These are drug store scans with some slight processing in SilverEfex to convert them to pure black and white, but no other edits were made.

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And here are a few from the 5D/40 Combo (Not necessarily a serious compact, but seriously compact in the way of SLRs). All processed in Photoshop CS5 using RadLab. No other sharpening or corrections applied.

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As always, your feedback and comments are welcome.

Kind regards,
Matthew
 
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