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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
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
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
📷 (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
(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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6×10 clouds
6×10 clouds 📷 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
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
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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Seebrückensehnsucht
📷1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, expired Agfa RSX 50, cross-developed in C41, scanned negatives
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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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every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough
all the things
by content
- art – cyanotypes, linocut, drypoint and things
- photography, mostly on film or paper negatives
- stuff with myself in it
- short reviews of things
- obsolete things like my trabant, or my typewriter
by film size
by camera model
- 1880s wooden 18×24 tailboard
- 1890s wooden 9×12 tailboard
- 1917 Vest Pocket Kodak
- generic 1920s 9×12
- 1920 No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special
- 1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2
- 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”
- 1930s Plaubel Makina II
- 1930s Welta Perfekta
- 1930s Welta Weltini and Welti
- 1930s Super Dollina
- 1930s Kochmann Reflex-Korelle
- 1930s-50s Zeiss Ikon Nettars
- 1949 Mimosa II
- 1950s Mycro III A
- 1950s Pouva Start
- 1950s Zeiss Ikon Contax D
- 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa
- 1955 Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- 1962 Ihagee Exa “0”
- 1960s Ihagee Exakta Varex
- 1963 Voigtländer Vito CD
- 1967 Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
- 1976 Ricoh Auto-Half E2
- 1980s Panasonic Newvicon Video Camera
- 1990 Mamiya 645 Pro
- 1999 Sony Mavica FD88
- Pinhole Camera
- Olympus OM-D
- Smartphone
the latest stuff:
