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Portraits in Film

A couple of weeks ago, I finally received my new toy.  I finally had a chance to see for myself what's this raving about rangefinders is all about.  No, it's not a Leica, I would have to re-morgage my house to get one of those.  This is a rangefinder for the normal people.  It's 40 year old Canon Canonet QL-17 GIII 35mm film camera.  It has a fixed 40mm f1.7 lens, with a very quiet leaf shutter, and it's surprisingly heavy for a small camera.  It's definitely requires time to get used to the way it focuses, and the way it works all together.  I have shot 2 rolls of film on it already, and the colour one, was mainly testing, and it wasn't impressive.  The black and white film came out a lot better.  Here are some samples.  There was no editing done to any of these, just a little cropping here and there.  Enjoy. Konrad

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