Yet another camera with a photographer and a blog

Over on The Online Photographer, there was a suggestion made to shoot with just a leica and a single lens for a year. I love this idea, spending a year working with an artificial, but hard set of restraints.

So, to that end, I’ve just ordered a Leica M6 body and a Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.4 lens from the fine folks over at KEH. My goal is to shoot/develop a minimum of one roll of film per week for the next 52 weeks with this camera/lens, and journal the progress here. It’s an artificial limit, one that removes a large set of variables that normally come when I’m shooting with my 5d mk II like ISO, focal length, white balance, etc…

Of course, I doubt that I will completely stop shooting with either my 5d2 or my 500c/2000fcm over the next year but i’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of my 35mm restraint film experiment.

Between now and tuesday, when I expect the camera/lens to show up I should make a decision about what film to spend the next 52 weeks shooting with. I think i’m going to commit to shooting tri-x for the entire time, since it is a film I’m already very familiar with from the 120 world, but i’m open to other suggestions. I’m seriously tempted by the chromogenic films, if only for easier processing/feedback from 1 hour labs (if the 1 hour labs offer scans with prints/developing, that’s even better!)