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  • spring

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • freedom bird

    freedom bird

    (digital, olympus om-d em-10 mark II, meike 25 mm f1.8)

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  • you don’t actually need to reverse your negatives if you crop them properly

    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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  • large format test pinguin

    large format test pinguin

    All 340 megapixels of him. First picture with my new camera. Not entirely unsuccessful but also a bit over exposed and not focused correctly. But als no light leaks so that’s something! Especially given that the camera and the film holder are 150 year old pieces of solid-mahagoni furniture. This was shot on 18×24 cm…

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  • infrared self portraits

    infrared self portraits

    with an olympus om-d e-10 ford cortina mark two, with the long name and removed IR filter, plus an IR-pass filter in front of the lens

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