5 Frames with a Pentax MZ5 at the Beach

Hi all my name is Carl Cozzone and i am a long time film user and photographer in Christchurch Nz. I seem to have been using fim camera’s all my life. Starting with a Pentax compact and getting distracted along the way with the Horizon Kompact, Zeiss Ikon Nettar and even an RZ67 before flirting with most other brands and formats (I’m looking at you APS ????),

36 chances to get it right, no chimping, no RAW, no Auto iso, no HDR. 36 shots later and all is well with the world, just put the camera away and enjoy the sunshine. The feeling of excitement when the prints come back from the lab is a feeling that never grows old, no matter how good, bad or otherwise the final results are.

A moment captured in time, underexposed? mis-focused? blurry? Just smile and move on. Now don’t get me wrong I do love my R6 but it is very clinical, almost too perfect. Film for me with all its imperfections really mirrors my own life and experiences and i like that.

These five frames were taken on a Pentax MZ5 with a sigma 18-35mm lens, all with the panorama setting on. It’s not true a pano I guess, but just nice to be able to shoot cropped in camera, just for fun. The Sigma is a super wide zoom with starts at 18mm and zooms to a standard 35mm. I think it suits the pano concept, eliminating background and foreground, forcing you to concentrate on the middle bit. All frames were shot early morning at New Brighton beach in Christchurch NZ.

The film stock was long expired Kodak Gold 200

I hope you enjoyed the photographs

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