Weekends Then and Now

[zeeshanmn]

I always liked Bombay from the start.  It is an immensely beautiful city.  It has everything.  For example when I wanted certain Jazz notation books and broke my head everywhere else in the country to find used books, including Bangalore, a dusty old store called Furtado's in Metro, Bombay sold me the three-book volume for almost the price of a

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[sajith]

Lovely contrasty picture, or something. What film and lens?

[zeeshanmn]

or something...uh what?

Film was Ilford PAN 100, lens was Sigma 28-105mm, F2.8 at 28mm.

[sajith]

"Something" because I am not really sure about what I like about the picture -- you know, the right term for that certain quality I happened to like. New to B&W, you know.

This Sigma is a lovely lens! Not suitable at all for wet climate, still.

[zeeshanmn]

New??? You shot some nice rangefinder shots. Plus you say kind things.

Sigma is good but is not for wet conditions. I remember reading how to make a polythene wrapper to protect a camera when it rains. That comes handy. But there is loss of clarity if one uses it.