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  • one more from the 9×12, from today

    one more from the 9×12, from today

    1920s 9×12 camera, 135mm/f4.5, 1/20s, Ilford MGRC paper in a glass plate holder, digital positive Including the springs in the plate holder that would hold a glass plate in place. Focusing remains a problem. As does holding the thing straight. I measured the shutter timing yesterday and learned that it’s not working as well as…

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  • 2020s Berlin with a 1920s camera

    2020s Berlin with a 1920s camera

    I have exactly 3 plate holders and it made some sort of picture for each of them, so that’s sort of amazing. All hand-held, between 1/20s and 1/5s, all on Ilford MGRC paper, cut to 9x12cm. Composition by guesswork. Well, by using the “brilliant finder”, which is neither brilliant, nor really showing what the camera…

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  • first image from my “new” (late 1920s) camera

    first image from my “new” (late 1920s) camera

    Got it for 30€ with a broken shutter and super grimy lens but it cleaned up extremely well, and the shutter only needed some old grease removed. It’s a “Doppelanastigmat” lens which means one can actually remove the front lens and it’s still working, just at double the focal length. Basically 2x zoom built-in. So…

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  • mirror selfies, Exakta edition

    mirror selfies, Exakta edition

    Though honestly I think me using a cable shutter release makes this automatically Self Portraiture, i.e. High Art. Yeah I’m going with that. p Ihagee Exakta Varex IIb w/ Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm, on Ilford Delta 100, scanned negatives

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  • you can brush on photographic fixer, it’s not against the law, they can’t stop you

    you can brush on photographic fixer, it’s not against the law, they can’t stop you

    However it just looks like a colorized b&w photo, done by someone with really weird taste in colors. The yellow is where I added fixer, the rose colored parts are unfixed. It certainly works better for sharper pictures with clear borders between things but it’s still a bit weird looking. Maybe there’s other scenes where…

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  • lazy sunday in prenzlauer berg

    lazy sunday in prenzlauer berg

    Ihagee Exakta Varex w/ Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50/2, on Ilford Delta 100, scanned negatives

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  • home, view out

    home, view out

    Ihagee Exakta Varex w/ Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50/2, on Ilford Delta 100, scanned negative, not properly cleaned but hey, art and stuff

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  • last summer.

    last summer.

    Shot on paper with a Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 230 that I hacked the automatic part out of so it would do long exposures. IIRC this was on the order of like 5s or so. Paper negative then reversal processed and the result is this. Kinda want to do more of those but the process…

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  • narcissism (yay 🥳)

    narcissism (yay 🥳)

    lumen print (that is, using b&w photo paper but no developer or fixer) from a digital negative on a computer screen. Which does have the downside of involving a computer (cursed little things) but the upside of at least not involving a printer. It sort of works, if you wait long enough, which I sort…

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  • even more macro stuff because that’s my fetish now

    even more macro stuff because that’s my fetish now

    This is the early 60ies aluminium-bodied Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar lens that I usually have on the Exakta now. I don’t know if this translates to instagram very well, the magic might be mostly in seeing things really close through the viewfinder of a weird old camera, with a self-built contraption that doesn’t look like…

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