Photo: Honda S2000 (AP1) Engine Bay


Friday, May 22, 2026.

Here's a picture I took at a local car meetup last month that I think is pretty good (click for full-size image, but be careful since it's 30 MB):

This one's off my 2x3 Speed Graphic (one of my favorite cameras) with Ilford HP5+ in a 6x7 roll film back. I suspect I need to adjust the rangefinder since I doubt I purposefully focused on the brake reservoir (and many other shots from this session are focused slightly too far), but, y'know, it's close enough.

I haven't shot medium format in a couple years, so I was happy to finally have the excuse to dig my medium format scanning setup back out. It's a Nikon LS-8000 with a custom control PCB based on a modern microcontroller, which probably deserves its own post here but I don't have the energy to write it up today. It's been sitting in storage for a while, but thankfully I was able to get it working with a bit of effort, and I think it gets me much better results than DSLR scanning.

The S2000 is a neat car, by the way.


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