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color tv
576 lines should be enough for anyone. With a Panasonic A2 video camera (not camcorder, it’s from the days where the VCR was still separate), with a sort of home-made capture system that actually gets the full resolution out of it. It could also do videos of course, but it’s surprisingly usable for stills? I…
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mirror selfies (1885)
Large-format self portraits are actually quite difficult to do, so the concerned look in the second picture is real but also unfortunate. 🙂 I think the worst part is that between focusing and actually taking the picture, there’s so much stuff to do during which I completely forgot what will be in frame or what…
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spring
I have not yet managed to take this camera out without having multiple conversations about it with passers-by. Which is unexpected – I’m in Berlin after all – but it is a lot of fun. People like it, is the verdict. Someone estimated it at 3000+€, which is about 2500€ too much, but I gather…
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work in progress
These are (18×24 cm) reversals on paper, i.e. they’re actually positives in Real Life! Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough light for this all to work. First one is ISO 0.4 (or 1.6 + 2 stops), and aaaaalmost enough but i also yanked it out of second development before it was done. That’s why the sky…
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more trees on paper negatives
with a Rodenstock Bistigmat (symmetric doublet), this time wide-open at f18. Yes 18, not 16 – its 1895 or so, and the industry standards aren’t that much of a standard yet. i kept telling myself to get closer, but this is probably not quite close enough yet. this lens is a 30 cm or so,…
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that gate
slightly overexposed, but such is life with paper negatives. IIRC this with an exposure time of 5 seconds, which is always fun with people around. 18×24 field camera, with a Rodenstock Bistigmat at f/51, on Ilford MGRC paper @ ISO 3 (which was a bit much light here)
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island
i really like the mood of this one. it also has a few more light leaks as that was with a different film holder than the last one, but that kinda adds to it. this looks nothing like it did in real life, it looks better 🙂 18×24 field camera, Rodenstock Bistigmat at f/51, on…
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18×24 trees
this isn’t the world’s best photo (that would’ve been a surprise) but on technical terms I see no major issues, which is a lot to say for a combination of 1880s camera and film holders, 1890s lens, and modern paper negatives. I need more(and better) film holders, and I also want to try a couple…
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you don’t actually need to reverse your negatives if you crop them properly
the irony is that this is digital and so i did in fact reverse it – to make it look like a negative. i need too many tries for self-portraits to do them on film 🙂 This is also infrared-only but that doesn’t really make much of a difference here I don’t think.
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every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough
all the things
by content
- art – cyanotypes, linocut, drypoint and things
- photography, mostly on film or paper negatives
- stuff with myself in it
- short reviews of things
- obsolete things like my trabant, or my typewriter
by film size
by camera model
- 1880s wooden 18×24 tailboard
- 1890s wooden 9×12 tailboard
- 1917 Vest Pocket Kodak
- generic 1920s 9×12
- 1920 No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special
- 1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2
- 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”
- 1930s Plaubel Makina II
- 1930s Welta Perfekta
- 1930s Welta Weltini and Welti
- 1930s Super Dollina
- 1930s Kochmann Reflex-Korelle
- 1930s-50s Zeiss Ikon Nettars
- 1949 Mimosa II
- 1950s Mycro III A
- 1950s Pouva Start
- 1950s Zeiss Ikon Contax D
- 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa
- 1955 Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- 1962 Ihagee Exa “0”
- 1960s Ihagee Exakta Varex
- 1963 Voigtländer Vito CD
- 1967 Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
- 1976 Ricoh Auto-Half E2
- 1980s Panasonic Newvicon Video Camera
- 1990 Mamiya 645 Pro
- 1999 Sony Mavica FD88
- Pinhole Camera
- Olympus OM-D
- Smartphone
the latest stuff:
