That is, until I realized halfway through the roll of film that, due to a bug on my HTC One M8, the light metering app I was using was metering using the front-facing camera rather than the back, so I was metering my face instead of the subject. In order to set the correct shutter speed, I used an app on my phone, and over the course of the roll of film, I found myself starting to intuitively know what shutter speed setting to shoot at, given the lighting conditions and aperture setting.
This was probably the most difficult adjustment for me, the setting that I most take for granted on my digital camera, because I mostly just shoot aperture priority, where it automatically determines the shutter speed based on an aperture setting. With zone focusing, all I had to do was compose and shoot, knowing that the subject was within the depth of field and therefore already in focus. Second was that I could use zone focusing to take candid street photos much quicker, since I didn’t have to compose, wait for autofocus, then shoot. First was an appreciation for the mechanics of what was going on behind the scenes in an autofocus camera. Over time I started to do zone focusing which required me to actually understand intuitively the concept of depth of field, something that most digital cameras these days do automatically.
You can see that some of the photos I took are poorly focused.
NIKON S2 RANGEFINDER MANUAL MANUAL
I had watched videos of manual focusing on a rangefinder, but it was definitely more difficult in practice.
NIKON S2 RANGEFINDER MANUAL ISO
Kane was generous enough to equip me with a roll of Lomography film (I forget which exactly) to start off, ISO 800 I believe, so there was more leeway in light metering at the expense of grain. When Kane spotted a ( ) with a ( ) in beautiful condition on Rangefinderforum, he insisted I jump on it. Yet my friend ( ) kept insisting I try it out, and ( ) with his Leica.
It’s cumbersome, you have a limited number of shots per roll, and worst of all, you don’t know whether the shot came out well until you develop the film. I never understood the appeal of shooting with film rangefinders.
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