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  • symptom of the universe

    symptom of the universe

    Not sure what happened here, with my 70 year old camera, at minus 10 degrees. Surely that’s a recipe for reliability if there ever was one. But I like how this looks ◡̈ Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives

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  • nature in the city

    nature in the city

    On Fomapan 400, but underexposed, so the grain is not the film’s fault. With a Contax, but at 1/25s, so the lack of sharpness is not the camera’s fault. And in my personal defense, it was really really cold yesterday 😀 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives

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  • monument

    monument

    On an appropriately monumental 6×10 cm negative. Now that I have worked out that I don’t really need to scan these at ultra-high resolution, it’s much quicker to work with too. This is at 2400dpi, and it’s still 54 megapixels, which should be enough for anybody. But I really ought to do proper darkroom prints…

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  • slightly alarmed expressions

    slightly alarmed expressions

    from the first test film with my new (1953) Contax, which I bought on eBay while slightly drunk on a Christmas market (as one does). Je ne regrette rien, this thing is just nice. Heavy, everything is buttery smooth, and it looks pleasantly weird. And everything works. Sort of, the light meter is off by…

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  • fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

    fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

    I messed up the development of this film completely, so this is more something like a camera review. Plus a Black Sabbath bootleg album cover collection. Picture quality is not indicative of camera performance 🙂 Shot with a 1937-ish Welta Weltini. But goddamn this camera is weird. I got mine very cheap in non-working condition,…

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  • I’m on a plate

    I’m on a plate

    Specifically, a 6×9 cm Lumière orthochromatic (not sensitive to red light) dry plate from god knows when. Early 20th century, after 1911. Pour la PORTRAIT it said, so la portrait I made. Exposure time 10 seconds, at f/4.5, treating the plate as ISO …stupidly low (technical term). ISO 1 or so. It was probably faster…

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  • old buildings through old cameras

    old buildings through old cameras

    I haven’t really used Fomapan 400 before, but I like it a lot. At least for medium format. This was overexposed because I don’t know what I’m doing, but it holds up pretty nicely. And it has a nice texture to it. Also it’s cheap, which leaves more money for drugs. 📸 1932 Rolleiflex “Old…

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  • birds&architecture

    birds&architecture

    Another 6×10…ish* from the Kodak from a land before our time. I really love this format, somehow. It might just be that it’s because I see most of these as positives for the first time on my iPhone, and this pretty much exactly fills the screen. And bigger just subconsciously looks better? Who knows. Also,…

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  • squirrel was faster

    squirrel was faster

    📷 (first picture) 1920 Kodak 1A Autographic Special, on Fomapan 400, scanned negative

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  • I know it’s only #thattoweragain but I like it

    I know it’s only #thattoweragain but I like it

    (to the tune of “Only Rock’n’Roll”) What I don’t like so much is that I have to add borders on Instagram for this format. So much money and they can’t design their app to work for the dozens (!! probably) of old Kodak rollfilm camera users, smh. 📷 1920 Kodak 1A Autographic Special (or any…

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