About six months ago I took a trip to Mt. Shasta to help out a friend with some content creation for her small business. While the main focus of my trip was not for my own work, I of course took some rolls of film and a film camera. After all, I haven’t been traveling much this past 18 months thanks to COVID and so any opportunity to get on the road I’m going to take it. I thought the Hasselblad SWC would be perfect for the occasion because it is relatively small and it more or less forced me to just be content with one lens. The vast majority of my traveling camera bag had to be dedicated to video gear.
This image was taken very early in the morning. We headed out onto a trail before the sun was even up or any coffee shops were open (seriously, I was craving coffee the entire hike). Despite the early morning hour it was also blistering hot already. I started out the hike wearing a heavy coat and was desperately wishing I had left it in the car by the end.
I made this exposure hand held at 1/250th of a second and f/11 focused at infinity. With the Hasselblad SWC that more or less means an infinite depth of field. It may be hard to believe, but I was also only about eight feet away from the figure in the center of the frame. I’m still often blown away by just how wide of an angle and how much information it is possible to put in the frame of that 38mm Biogon lens.