"Escalator Goths," on Provia 400F. This was pretty much a grab shot, wide-open in poor light, yet it
didn't turn out too bad. I had adjusted exposure values as I went indoors, and focused by eyeball; it came
out close enough to get the job done. Weird how slide film can make even fluorescent light look good...
My main issue with the CL is... film. I sort of love it and hate it at the same time. I love the results I get
from Fujichrome Provia or just about any black-and-white neg, but I'm not crazy about the way I get
them. I don't miss chimping (in fact, it's liberating not to do it). My problem is that I'm a sporadic
photographer. I can go weeks or even months without shooting a single frame, then I shoot one, five, ten,
or a couple of hundred. This means that I will very often end up with a half-finished roll in the camera for
a quite a while, which doesn't do the film any favours, and the pictures will be somehow out of date once I
get them. And, yes, I do count the cost as well -- the kind of film I like to shoot ends up costing over ten
euros a roll, including processing, which does add up. I do not particularly enjoy the constraint of 36
frames -- I want to be able to shoot however many frames I like whenever I like, and get the results right
away.
How does it handle?
Overall, I'm tickled pink with the CL. It's extremely straightforward to use, once your fingers have
learned to find their way between the aperture ring and focus ring, and once you've learned to read the
light a little bit. Unlike the much bigger EOS-5D I use as my main camera, it's absolutely no problem to
use with gloved hands in the cold. Film loading is a bit on the fussy side; I haven't yet gotten completely
comfortable with it and tend to waste a frame or two at the beginning of the roll. The construction
requires no special light seals and as long as you make sure the latch is properly engaged, there's virtually
no danger of light leaks.
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