Shocker

Posted by Mike Cash (Kiryu, Japan) on 7 May 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

She didn't look like a soldier, so I'm hoping she was a horrorpunk.

This is my first post with a camera other than the Pentax K100D digital SLR.

The photo was taken with a 1956 "Ricoh 35 De Luxe" rangefinder on whatever ISO100 Fuji color film it was they had at the local 7-11.

The camera has no built-in light meter, no auto-exposure, no autofocus, no auto-anything. I got a light meter subsequent to taking this photo, but this one was made strictly guessing the exposure using the "Sunny 16" method. Focus was done by focusing on something I judged to be roughly the same distance the bag was. Framing was point-and-pray.

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