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.