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Morning Light on Lombard St

So I’m going to give the entire 1 camera, 1 lens, 1 film thing a try. We’ll see how long I last.

I’m going with the FX-3/50 Planar combo. That offers the least temptation for snagging other lenses for shooting. As a backup plan, if/when the notoriously fragile FX-3 self-destructs my backup plan is to get a Leitax mount conversion kit for the Planar and a Pentax KX, KM or MX as a replacement body (and then get rid of the rest of the Contax bits I have).

I’m officially starting Sunday after I return the borrowed Hassy 501cm, but I’ve already stashed everything else other than the G1 (which will continue to be used as a bar camera, don’t want to waste film on that) and the 645 Super which will get stashed as well.

As to the film side, HP5+ gets the official nod. Since I don’t want to waste the 35mm in my stash I’ll cheat a bit. 50% minimum of what I shoot has to be HP5+ and I won’t buy any new film other than HP5+. Of the non-HP5, no more than 50% can be colour and 50% of that must be Provia 100F (I have a ridiculous amount of P100F floating around that needs to get shot).