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stuck in the Mitte with you
Shot with a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5. Focus on the wrong thing? Check! Also, the little Contax has a small shutter problem at higher speeds, which makes one image edge darker. The internet says this is because the shutter curtains don’t travel at the same speed. Not the easiest of problems […]
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yellow
Shot with a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on fantastically fancy brand new Kodak Ektar 100 that my fantastically handsome friends gave me for my birthday. I’m also not doing C41 development at home anymore – I’ve had the chemicals go bad twice now, and it’s not that much fun to keep pulling […]
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work in progress
Because perfection is a scam, here’s another thing that only almost worked. The idea is double/triple exposure with at least one of them completely out of focus. In my head these would align perfectly but in reality I’d probably need a tripod and/or a back-focusing view camera. So this is not quite how I wanted […]
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The Royal 10 Typewriter
This is a review or something, though with the added complication that I know almost nothing about typewriters. But I also can’t just let this chunk of obsolete metal sit here and not talk about it. It’s this: It’s a Royal 10, made in the US, serial number X-1081691, which means it was made in […]
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First two-tone cyanotype test
Not entirely 100% successful but we do have yellow, blue, and green…ish blue. I have to change how I create the channel negatives. What I did for this was just taking the Cyan and Yellow channels of a CMYK image, but that doesn’t really work all that well. So this image is not the best […]
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sea
Cyanotype contact print (25x25cm) from an inkjet printed enlargement of a 6×6 medium format negative. Still working on a practical UV enlarger, so I don’t have the stupid computer in the workflow anymore. But this is nice too. It’s on Boesner “aquarelle 300” paper which works alright, but doesn’t hold up during washing quite as […]
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infrastructure
Saxony’s first wind power park, built in 1991, under my supervision (I was 2, it was unpaid voluntary work). 📷 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, in Fomapan 100, scanned negative
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old tree on even older vulcano
Shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, which remains my absolute favorite from the long list of obsolete machinery I habitually carry around with me. On Fomapan 100, scanned negative.
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happy new year
Will I learn to bring a tripod in 2023? Probably not. Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives
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symptom of the universe
Not sure what happened here, with my 70 year old camera, at minus 10 degrees. Surely that’s a recipe for reliability if there ever was one. But I like how this looks ◡̈ Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives
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every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough
all the things
by content
- art – cyanotypes, linocut and things
- photography, mostly on film
- stuff with myself in it
- short reviews of things
- obsolete things like my trabant, or my typewriter
by film size
by camera model
- generic 1920s 9×12
- 1920 No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special
- 1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2
- 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”
- mid 1930s Plaubel Makina II
- late 1930s Welta Weltini
- 1950s Mycro III A
- 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa
- 1955 Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- 1962 Ihagee Exa “0”
- mid-1960s Ihagee Exakta Varex IIb
- 1967 Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
- 1999 Sony Mavica FD88
- Pinhole Camera
- Olympus OM-D
- Smartphone
the latest stuff:
