Nikonos II
Sunday, June 1st, 2008A new camera has entered my photo-scene, and I am diving right in.
The underwater results (at Harbourfront in Lake Ontario) have been… interesting.
Technically, one might argue that the photos are entirely incomprehensible, but I would point out that technically the exposure has been quite exemplary.
My Nikonos doesn’t have an internal light meter, and in lieu of the waterproof external light meter I don’t have, I’ve been using my own personal, built-in, waterproof, eyeballs (in conjunction with some educated guesswork). Granted: I was using chromogenic black and white neg film, and my latitude was huge, but I think my choices of exposure have, in fact, been rather decent.
My next plan is colour slide film.
Let’s see what colour the lake is under there, and let’s see what kind of precise intuition all that photo school has instilled in me where light metering is concerned.
(Please excuse all the dust on these contact scans.)