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  • over at Brecht’s place

    over at Brecht’s place

    Well, actually more like Helene Weigel’s place. And the guest house, if I understood that right. It was built as a sculptor’s studio, which explains the huge glass front. The room behind it was very impressive but a bit too dark for my little box camera. There was a quote in the museum somewhere that…

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  • that tower again

    that tower again

    You too can have stars on your daytime images if you just don’t mix your development chemicals enough. I think that’s what that is. There’s also water stains that I didn’t see when I was scanning it. Additionally, this was overexposed to hell and back because I don’t look at my light meter nearly often…

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  • where there’s a will there’s a lake

    where there’s a will there’s a lake

    With an Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa that amazingly has not broken yet, with a Sonnar f4/135 mm. On Kodak Gold 200. Home-developed and I didn’t even mess up the colors too much, so there’s something.

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  • at the races

    at the races

    With a mid-1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2, on Lomo Color 400 film. Not a camera built for color photography really, but it’s kinda nice to use. There’s only one shutter speed (1/60s or so, depends a bit on the current moon phase), three aperture settings (slow, slower, and slowest) and three focus distances (close things…

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  • city (abstract)

    city (abstract)

    In today’s episode of my old camera is falling apart and i can’t use it right: A 1930s Welta Weltix or Watson or Welti (it’s difficult to tell). Its 5 cm / f 2.9 Steinheil Cassar doesn’t do much contrast under the best of conditions, even before you add my accidental double-exposures, overexposure, and the…

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  • ghost dance

    ghost dance

    In infrared (950 nm filter) and at ~1/10s. And digital because I still haven’t figured out how to do self portraits without shooting a million pictures and selecting the best ones. Which gets a bit unwieldy on film. So this was my full-spectrum-converted Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II With Too Long Of A Name again.…

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  • self portraits with mirror

    self portraits with mirror

    There’s probably some greek myth about this, idk. With a thermal-printer equipped toy camera. Though every camera is a toy camera, if you’re using it correctly.

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  • interesting tree

    interesting tree

    to balance it all out. This one in Pankow, shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, on Foma Ortho 400.

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  • the best worst camera

    the best worst camera

    I’m admittedly easy to amuse but this thing is just great. Made with a generic (well, dinosaur styled, so not *that* generic) kids camera with a built-in thermo printer. The camera apparently has 20 megapixels, a small selection of which get printed. There are higher-resolution print modes but they don’t look as good. And one…

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  • short wave infrared vacation

    short wave infrared vacation

    it’s important to not get eyes in frame if you don’t want to get nightmares but hands and arms work very well This is with a 720 nm high-pass filter so there’s a tiniest bit of (red) visible light in it too but it’s mostly infrared. That also makes skin much more transparent which conveniently…

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