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  • something a bit more alive

    something a bit more alive

    Still with the Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, which has proven to be unusually reliable for an Exakta. Well, the frame counter is broken of course but other than that everything works. #ihageeexakta #fomapan200 #fomafilm

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  • faster than its shadow

    faster than its shadow

    So the trick is to wait until the bird is exactly on top of its own reflection in the window and only then press the shutter. Totally intentional. Absolutely not just random chance, it’s all skillz. Camera: Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, with a 135mm/f4 Carl Zeiss Sonnar. On Foma 200. #grainisgood #ihageeexakta #fomafilm #fomapan200

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  • tree

    tree

    Initially after seeing this tree I wanted to go back with a 9×12 and a tripod, to do it justice. But then everything was a bit too gray to find the motivation to go up there again. So this is in 35 mm, and you kinda have to imagine it’s in focus properly. The colors…

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  • ducking bird photography

    ducking bird photography

    Turns out, it all looks cooler when you’re getting closer. Watched some youtube vid with tips for bird photography some days ago, and modern cameras apparently have autofocus tracking for bird eyes?? Kids these days have it too easy. These on the other hand were shot with a manual focus 135mm/f4 Sonnar on a fully…

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  • clouds

    clouds

    it was spring for 15 minutes in Berlin, and the clouds looked pretty Camera: Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, with a 135mm/f4 Carl Zeiss Sonnar, on Fomapan 200

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  • in the cold cold night

    in the cold cold night

    With a 1930s Plaubel Makina II, which is basically unusable at night (well, the rangefinder is) but still makes pretty pictures. This is at maximum aperture (f2.9) – one day I’ll have enough patience to close the lens somewhat, that should make it all a bit sharper, but yesterday was not that day. Also my…

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  • light leaks at the end of the tunnel

    light leaks at the end of the tunnel

    Okay there’s still some stuff to fix, and also I should maybe hold the camera steady sometimes (2nd pic) but my little 1890s street photography setup is getting somewhere. These are all underexposed because I was a bit too pessimistic about how fast the shutter was today (with my modifications it fluctuates from somewhere between…

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  • pa-no-ra-ma

    pa-no-ra-ma

    Some more half-frame things because it’s kinda fun to have 72 shots per film to waste on stupid stuff 🙂 These are a bit wonky because I just did these hand-held and pretty quickly, but then again I think that’s part of the charm. Ricoh Auto-Half E2, on Fomapan 200.

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  • the most simplest waist-level viewfinder ever

    the most simplest waist-level viewfinder ever

    Made from two custom-cut mirrors in a 3D-printed housing. It’s sort of a prototype and it’s not perfect, and it doesn’t really show any sort of framing. But it does show where the camera is pointed to, which should be helpful.

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  • fastest thornton-pickard in the west

    fastest thornton-pickard in the west

    Or, well, the fastest Thornton-Pickard “Time&Instantanious” in any case. Natively, that one has shutter speeds from 1/15s to 1/80s. It’s a very simple curtain shutter – the width of the gap is not adjustable, only the spring tension. I made a new curtain for it. I made it out of a pretty thin IKEA blackout…

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