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  • fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

    fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

    I messed up the development of this film completely, so this is more something like a camera review. Plus a Black Sabbath bootleg album cover collection. Picture quality is not indicative of camera performance 🙂 Shot with a 1937-ish Welta Weltini. But goddamn this camera is weird. I got mine very cheap in non-working condition,…

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  • I’m on a plate

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • SeebrĂźckensehnsucht

    SeebrĂźckensehnsucht

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

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