Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Currently: Buenos Aires, also check out www.BuenosAiresPhotographer.com |
I love rangefinders
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| My Mamiya 7, purchased late last year on ebay for about $700, used. Lately I've been taking this camera with me on my walks around Buenos Aires. It weighs less than my Canon 40D but uses medium format 120 film. If you're used to 35mm cameras this thing looks like a bit of a beast, much taller than digital SLRs, but as medium format cameras go, it's small and light. |
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| My Olympus XA, a very small 35mm rangefinder from the late 1970s. I bought this for about $60 on ebay a few years back and I love, love, love it. It's so small, has a decent amount of manual control and makes great images. Unfortunately I hardly ever shoot with 35mm film anymore so I recently lent it to someone who could really use a small, quiet, unobtrusive camera. |
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| I have to thank Lucas for taking this shot while I was busy shooting with the 8x10. That little piece of gaffer's tape has taken care of the light leak problems. Eventually I'll get some of the 8x10 negatives scanned. I like how they're coming out. |
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| Here I am checking my 8x10 camera for light leaks. I'd noticed some fogging on some of my first exposures. I put a film holder in the back and then looked thru the front to see if I could see any light. |
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| Sure enough, there was a missing screw that was letting light in. |
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| When I brought this camera down to Argentina from the US a couple of months ago I was paranoid about not being allowed to bring the back in my carry-on as it's an 8x10in sheet of glass. I wrapped it in styrofoam and put in my checked suitcase and hoped for the best. It cracked. It's still usable but I'm scared for it. On my wishlist; a plexi-glass ground glass. |
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| Back in 2002 I bought an old 8x10 view camera on ebay, a Calumet C-2 to be exact. I think I used it just six times before it went into storage. I got exactly one picture in focus. Back in April when I went back to California, I retrieved the camera from storage, bought a new lens for it and brought it with me down here to Argentina. This time around I'm having a bit more success with focus and exposure. The two pictures above are of my friends Luc and Martin. It's too bad I don't have a scanner because the contact prints look amazing. |
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| Vagner and I threw a party last weekend and I set up a little photobooth in the corner. I liked the results. Party photos often all look the same. |
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| My friend Luc from France came for a visit last week. This picture was taken in the late afternoon in the Reserva Ecologica in a part that had burned last year and is now recovering. |
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| I was taking pictures in my friend German's apartment, playing with some flashes I got recently. German makes these really funky lamps. I like the way the one at the top of the frame looks like a bolt of lightning. |
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 | Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures. |