Sellwood on the 4th

The color portion of our exploration of the Argus C3 happened on the 4th of July.  It was a hazy overcast day, and the Kodak Portra 160, it turns out, casts toward the reds and browns, so the results weren’t a real indicator of what the camera can do.  As I mentioned at the beginning of the week, I’d only seen color slides before now, mostly Kodachrome.

While checking the camera settings for this next shot, the owner of the car returned.  I explained my mission, and this being my grandfather’s camera.  He volunteered that the Jaguar had been his grandfather’s!  Some people are very lucky.

It was the only double exposure from this roll, due to my haste to adjust settings and not keep him.  I still like the results!

The adventure continues

My walk turned down 14th which is my favorite street in the neighborhood, and connects Sellwood to Westmoreland.  It’s narrower than most of the other streets, and is almost a pedestrian street.

We go past Portland Memorial, where Grandma and Grandpa are interred and where we used to feed the swans when I was a kid, and past Llewellyn School, where my mom and uncle and my daughters went to school.

 

From Sellwood to Westmoreland in one roll of film

From the 7800 block to the 6000 block is less than 20 blocks.   Compared to using a digital point-and-shoot or my phone, returning to an analog camera, with no built-in light meter is incredibly tedious!  I’ve gotten so used to shooting from the hip, so to speak, that choosing the right time to push the shutter after reading the light meter, setting the aperture and shutter speed, and then focusing with the range-finder feels like an eternity.  Add in waiting a week for processing by a lab.  I’m still impressed with the results.

My walk from home to Grandpa’s house took me from our block in Sellwood past some construction on the other end of the block.

And then to the corner.

And down Malden Street.