Helsinki 1

First series of pictures from our Helsinki trip. I tried to capture there the city’s architecture. There are some notable buildings:

• Second picture is the exterior of the Amos Rex museum
• Fourth picture is the Kansallismuseo
• Fifth picture is the front of the Helsingin tuomiokirkko, the city’s Cathedral.

Photo details

This trip was the first time I used the Rollei 35S, which was perfectly adapted to travel due to its pocket form factor. I found the images really sharp, the Sonnar lens is impressive. The fact that it is a prime lens forced me to move around the structures I wanted to shoot to get the angles correctly.

The film used was a Kodak Tri-X 400, which gave this singular grain over the pictures, even on white buildings on a cloudy sky in the fourth image.

Helsinki 3

Last series of pictures from our Helsinki trip. Some other great pieces of architecture:

• Second picture is the Finnish Parliament (Eduskusta)
• Third picture depicts the Vesikko submarine, it was taken on the island of Suomenlinna

Photo details

I had to edit the plane wing picture to remove some stains and noises, which I normally don’t do because they are part of the picture when doing film photography. But since they were quite large, I had to work around to make it viewable.

Rollei 35S + Kodak Tri-X 400.

Helsinki 2

Second series of pictures from our Helsinki trip. This time, it is consacred to the University’s Botanical garden (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha).

Photo details

For these pictures, I had to play with the focus ring on the Rollei 35S, to get the focus on objects not in the infinite range. It is a bit imprecise, but some pictures turned out great.

Rollei 35S + Kodak Tri-X 400.