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  • Today we Tessar

    Today we Tessar

    Still with the Reflex-Korelle, which has survived its second film now. Apart from the really fun but also stupidly heavy 24cm Tele-Xenar, I also have an 8cm f2.8 Tessar for it, which makes the whole thing almost compact. Much easier to use, in any case. I haven’t really used it to it’s full potential yet,…

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  • Amateurish Notes on Repairing a Reflex-Korelle

    Amateurish Notes on Repairing a Reflex-Korelle

    Disclaimer up front: I’m not a professional camera technician (as will become obvious). I’m also not a historian. This isn’t really a complete repair guide or anything. It’s just some things I noticed while fixing my Reflex-Korelle. Maybe it helps someone else, or maybe it’s an entertaining read, if your definition of “entertaining” is also…

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  • First Pictures from my Reflex-Korelle

    First Pictures from my Reflex-Korelle

    I have recently gotten myself a Kochmann Reflex-Korelle III, and a IIa – both from the late 1930s and both non-working. And I have just today managed to combine them into a working one. The Reflex-Korelle itself isn’t really that rare, but working ones kind of are. There are a lot of reasons for that…

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  • Postcards from Berlin

    Postcards from Berlin

    I have nothing interesting to write for these but I think they turned out pretty nice. None of these were intentionally shot as pairs because I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. Also, birds! All on Kodak Gold 200.

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  • Foma Ortho 400 is awesome

    Foma Ortho 400 is awesome

    …he said, after shooting two rolls of it, in one day, but hey. So this isn’t a full review or anything, but man I just love what it does. I’ve shot it with a Box-Tengor box camera, which doesn’t really have a lot of options to vary exposure – and it was pretty bright out…

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  • A working Exakta Varex

    A working Exakta Varex

    …is a beautiful thing. I have three broken ones (I’ll get to them eventually), but also one working one, a 1950s Varex IIa, and it’s just so nice. The funny thing is that nothing is in focus whenever I use it, because it’s really quite difficult to focus correctly with the waist-level viewfinder. I have…

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  • Cinestill 50D Elsewhere

    Cinestill 50D Elsewhere

    I have more pictures and nothing interesting to say about them, really, so here’s more pictures. All of them shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, all on Cinestill 50D, all home-developed and -scanned. The differences in color balance sometimes are I think mostly due me getting the exposure wrong. And also the fact that…

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  • Contax travels

    Contax travels

    The one other camera I had with me on my holiday was the Contax IIIa, with a 50mm f1.5 Sonnar lens, which is just such a nice piece of kit. Critically undervalued, too – especially if you go for the ones that nobody wants (III/IIIa, with the light meter that often doesn’t work anymore, instead…

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  • Cinestill 50D in Hamburg

    Cinestill 50D in Hamburg

    First time I tried this film and I really like it. For me, medium format in color always has that slight magical touch to it – because it usually looks just like the view through the Rolleiflex viewfinder. Which makes everything look awesome in a way that I can’t describe – maybe the grain, or…

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  • Forest Photography

    Forest Photography

    With a Contax. The textures really came out nicely, considering this is Kodak Gold and also 35mm.

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