{"id":363120,"date":"2026-04-04T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:22:13","slug":"leica-m6-and-cinestill-800t-night-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363120\/","title":{"rendered":"Leica M6 and Cinestill 800T Night Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shooting through a creative slump is one of the harder parts of photography that nobody talks about honestly. Kodak Vision3 500T’s tungsten-balanced sibling, Cinestill 800T<\/a>, is one of the few film stocks that can pull you back in almost by itself.<\/p>\n

Coming to you from Jason Kummerfeldt of grainydays<\/a>, this candid video follows the him as he loads up a Leica M6<\/a> with Cinestill 800T, pairs it with a Light Lens Lab 35mm f\/1.4<\/a>, and heads out for a six-mile walk through the city at night, skipping the tripod entirely. The logic is straightforward: ISO 800, f\/1.4, handheld. Either it works or it doesn’t. Cinestill 800T is a tungsten-balanced stock, which means artificial city lighting renders with deep, saturated teals and a look that’s hard to fake in post. At night, that combination does a lot of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

What makes this video worth watching isn’t just the gear or the film. It’s the honest accounting of what it actually feels like when your motivation to shoot disappears. He talks about building up a shot in your head on location, convinced you walked away with something strong, only to get the scans back and feel nothing. That cycle of expectation and disappointment is something most people don’t talk about openly. He also gets into a larger question that’s harder to shake: when the people you show your work to don’t respond to the photos you love most, do you trust your own eye or start second-guessing everything? He references the idea of “killing your darlings” from film editing, the discipline of not getting so attached to something that you can’t cut it when it needs to go. Applied to photography, that’s a genuinely uncomfortable place to sit.<\/p>\n

The walk itself produces a mixed bag of results, which he’s upfront about. Some shots he likes. Some he doesn’t. One he was convinced was a strong frame turned out flat. There’s a sushi spot he’d been meaning to shoot for a long time, a dark and futuristic scene he stumbled into without fully understanding how he got it, and a recurring subject he’s photographed roughly a hundred times and still can’t crack. The video doesn’t wrap up with a tidy resolution or a set of actionable tips. It’s more of a document of someone working through a rough patch in real time, using a night walk and a roll of film as the mechanism. Whether that approach actually works, and what he takes away from it, is something the video addresses directly toward the end. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Kummerfeldt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shooting through a creative slump is one of the harder parts of photography that nobody talks about honestly.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-363120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}