In your bag No: 1270, Koda
The great thing about ‘in Your Bag’ is that you never know what each day will bring. Yesterday it was a very fancy bag, today is a bag on a students budget. But regardless of how much money was spent, the passion for photography is still the same. Check it out.

As a highschool student, my bag is modest and its contents purchased on a very tight budget: the bag itself cost more than anything it holds. I take two cameras, one for colour, one for b&w, a light-meter just incase I doubt myself, and enough film to satisfy a nervous disposition that I might in fact require the 288 shots available here, in one outing…

CAMERAS:

-Zenith/ Lomo (pre- Lomography) LC-A, for colour shots. The Mintar lens creates great vignetting and has great swirling of the out-of-focus areas. I love the look with colour film, so this is its sole purpose. I currently use Lomography’s colour 100 and 400 films, although I’m not really feeling them, so Ektar and Portra are on their way for testing.

-Canon IVSB, for black and white. This is an LTM mount, and is a poor man’s Leica III really, the only advantage over the Leica counterpart being the single rangefinder window. It’s also very light, but built like a tank, and currently sports a 50mm f2 Jupiter 8, which I adore though I’d like to try an Industar 22 50mm which I’ve heard great things about. The Russian lenses are, for me, affordable and they provide interesting as opposed to ‘perfect’ results. I’m not too concerned with lenses famed for their sharpness, because if used well, any decent lens will produce adequately sharp results.

-An Olympus 35RC or a Zenit EM (with the wonderful Helios-44) sometimes sub in for these.

FILM:

Film is most important for me, I feel like getting to know a film’s character, sensitivity and responsiveness yields better results than changing a lens, or body. Colour is less important for me, so I’ll just say that I’m waiting for Ektar and Portra to see how they go. With regards to black and white: I’m still trying out different films but so far…

-Ilford HP5+ 400: really liked the results, developed in Rodinal at 1:25. Only had 2 rolls of this so haven’t been able to experiment much, but pushed to 1600, the grain is fatter than I’ve seen in examples of Delta 3200…

-Ilford FP4+ 125: I bulk roll this, it’s expired (from 1994!) but it was fridge stored, so shoots really nicely at 100iso. I’m yet to try pushing this but so far love the dynamics. The grain is also very very nice, especially in Rodinal at 1:50…

-Polypan F: About 7 meters of this came with my bulk loader. It’s very nice, but seems flat compared to FP4+.

-Fomapan 100 and Kodak T-Max 100, I’ve shot these but haven’t developed them yet, so I’m yet to see… I’ve heard great things about T-Max 100 so I’m pretty excited about that.

DEVELOPER:

-This isn’t in my bag, per se, but i thought I’d touch on it. I’ve only used Rodinal so far, and am desperately looking for reasonably priced Diafine in England. If anyone knows how to get it, let me know!

Of course, a note book and a reading book complete the bag, which also contains a bottle of water, and a shutter release cable (which doesn’t work for either of these cameras haha…)

My work can be seen on instagram.com/kodacouleur and on lomography.com/homes/asaphjeffrey but these need updating, so check back next week!

Thanks JCH,
Koda

Thanks for sharing your bag with us, Koda. It is especially nice to see a high school student shooting film, especially in this, the i-phone age.
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In your bag No: 1269, Michael Hood
Michael shares with us a very fancy setup inside, all prepped for a trip to Rome. This is a Leica lovers dream bag. Perfect for a Sunday. Come and check it out.
Here is my travel kit ready for my trip to Rome in a few months. This is an all 50mm lens, all film, all Leica bag. I usually shoot my local area with my M6 TTL(LSHA special edition) and Summilux 50. For this trip I wanted a backup camera so picked up a really nice M3 and one of the new Leica 50mm f/2.4 Summarit lenses. This may seem like a pretty uninteresting combination to some but I really like having a reliable, predictable tool without any distractions. The difference between the bodies is subtle, but real and I think on reflection the M3 is actually a bit nicer. The finder is better and the cheaper lens is lighter and usually fast enough. Also trying some Adox Silvermax film on this trip for something a bit special.

Leica M6 TTL LHSA Special Edition (Black Paint)
Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH

Leica M3 (chrome, single stroke)
Leica Summarit-M 50mm f/2.4

Artisan & Artist ACAM-1100 Bag – This is also new. Fits everything nicely and is not too big
Sekonic L-758 Light Meter – for when the light get tricky using the M3
Artisan & Artist #290 Leather Wrist Strap on both bodies

I mainly shoot in Black and White and this trip I have a selection of three films:
Ilford HP5 Plus Black and White Negative Film (50 rolls)
Adox Silvermax 100 Black and White Film (40 rolls)
Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100F Professional RDP-III Color Transparency Film (15 rolls)

Thanks for letting me show my gear Bellamy, love your work!

My portfolio is up at:
www.mjhoodphoto.com
or
www.flickr.com/photos/michaeljhood/
and
ello.co/mjhood

Thanks for sharing your bag with us, Michael. I hope that your bag is safe in Rome, I have heard reports that there are thieves targeting Leica gear in Rome. Keep your eyes peeled.
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Aldo Barranco and a Mamiya 6×7.

Abner Cestari with a Pentax 6×7.

Fabio Oliveira with a Pentax 6×7.

And notice he took the above photo with a Contax 645.

Erika Mayumi using my Hasselblad.

Erika was shooting Barbara Bombachini shooting her Mamiya 6×7.

Carolina Amorim with a Rolleiflex.

Ziza Gomes with a toy camera.

Minolta Dynax 505si Super
In the background you can see Canon EOS Digital camera mounted with Nikon manual lens
I believe it was Nikkor 35mm f/2

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