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  • 6×10 clouds

    6×10 clouds

    6×10 clouds đŸ“· 1920 Kodak 1A Autographic Special (or any other random order of these words), on Fomapan 400, scanned negative Yes it’s all at infinity focus for now, but the next roll I’ll actually try out the world’s weirdest/first rangefinder, too 🙂

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  • so last century

    so last century

    This was shot with a No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special, introduced in 1917. (first one uncropped, second one is a crop to show how stupidly big and detailed these negatives are). Mine is probably from 1920. The killer feature is the coupled rangefinder (below the lens, in the bottom of the front standard), something Kodak…

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  • oasis

    oasis

    The big problem with using the ancient Rolleiflex at night is that the viewfinder is so dark, it’s basically impossible to see what you’re doing. The other big problem is that street lamps are too damn bright, so as soon as you have one in frame it’s just a blown-out blob of light (petition to…

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  • SeebrĂŒckensehnsucht

    SeebrĂŒckensehnsucht

    đŸ“·1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, expired Agfa RSX 50, cross-developed in C41, scanned negatives

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  • narcissism (colorized)

    narcissism (colorized)

    Skin tones, it turns out, are very difficult to do. I ended up sort of dabbing them on (2nd pic is that in progress). Pre-mixing didn’t work at all. There’s still a bit of a texture to it that I couldn’t get rid of without wiping off all the paint again. But at normal viewing…

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  • first try at hand-coloring black and white prints

    first try at hand-coloring black and white prints

    
with oil paints. Which is super easy, actually. Will do more of that. The sky is a bit overly dramatic maybe, but I’m pretty happy with this. The basic idea is to use very little paint and just sort of rubbing it on the print, with cotton swabs or similar. That only works with fibre-based…

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  • more Berlin on ORWO

    more Berlin on ORWO

    (this is your brain, this is ORWO, this is your brain on ORWO) This film can do all emotions you want – as long as you want quiet despair mixed with a slight sense of nostalgia, the bitter-sweet kind, but sugar-free. Ihagee Exa w/ Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.8/35mm on ORWO NP 27, expired 1992,…

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  • look up

    look up

    Isn’t Berlin pretty? These have been taken on very sunny days. It’s amazing how grey this film renders everything. (“Look at how depressing that looks, isn’t that cool???” – I swear I am fun at parties) Ihagee Exa w/ Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.8/35mm on ORWO NP 27, expired 1992, scanned negatives

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  • stairs

    stairs

    on very expired ORWO NP 20 from the strange country I was born in (“develop before 07 1992” – so the film lasted longer than the country). And it has expired in a somewhat magical way, everything looks sort of dream-like. Not a great dream, mind you, just some dream. I could post the whole…

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  • Möwi und Fischi

    Möwi und Fischi

    1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, Agfa RSX 50, cross-processed in C41, scanned negative, cropped digitally

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