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  • summer 1890

    summer 1890

    With a wooden ~1890s 9×12 tailboard camera, though shooting on medium format film (Ilford Delta 100). Half of the time it works all the time! This is hand-held, with the slightly modified original Thornton-Pickard shutter, at about 1/200s. Focusing remains slightly problematic – the focusing scale I made is not very accurate and my bad…

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  • 3 am

    3 am

    The nice thing about taking the Rolleiflex to the bar is that one has something to do while waiting for the tram on the way back. These are admittedly the only decent ones out of 12 but they’re surprisingly sharp for 1s exposure time after *many* beers, hand-held. Well hand-held-against-a-wall but still. Camera: beloved 1932…

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  • just chilling

    just chilling

    Statues – for when you’d rather photograph people but also don’t want to ask. On the plus side, I’m prepared if I ever meet someone made out of bronze. Unfortunately I don’t know who made these or what their name is. They seemed rather quiet in any case. Camera: 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, on Foma…

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  • tree

    tree

    Initially after seeing this tree I wanted to go back with a 9×12 and a tripod, to do it justice. But then everything was a bit too gray to find the motivation to go up there again. So this is in 35 mm, and you kinda have to imagine it’s in focus properly. The colors…

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  • ducking bird photography

    ducking bird photography

    Turns out, it all looks cooler when you’re getting closer. Watched some youtube vid with tips for bird photography some days ago, and modern cameras apparently have autofocus tracking for bird eyes?? Kids these days have it too easy. These on the other hand were shot with a manual focus 135mm/f4 Sonnar on a fully…

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  • clouds

    clouds

    it was spring for 15 minutes in Berlin, and the clouds looked pretty Camera: Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, with a 135mm/f4 Carl Zeiss Sonnar, on Fomapan 200

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  • light leaks at the end of the tunnel

    light leaks at the end of the tunnel

    Okay there’s still some stuff to fix, and also I should maybe hold the camera steady sometimes (2nd pic) but my little 1890s street photography setup is getting somewhere. These are all underexposed because I was a bit too pessimistic about how fast the shutter was today (with my modifications it fluctuates from somewhere between…

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  • pa-no-ra-ma

    pa-no-ra-ma

    Some more half-frame things because it’s kinda fun to have 72 shots per film to waste on stupid stuff 🙂 These are a bit wonky because I just did these hand-held and pretty quickly, but then again I think that’s part of the charm. Ricoh Auto-Half E2, on Fomapan 200.

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  • the most simplest waist-level viewfinder ever

    the most simplest waist-level viewfinder ever

    Made from two custom-cut mirrors in a 3D-printed housing. It’s sort of a prototype and it’s not perfect, and it doesn’t really show any sort of framing. But it does show where the camera is pointed to, which should be helpful.

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  • fastest thornton-pickard in the west

    fastest thornton-pickard in the west

    Or, well, the fastest Thornton-Pickard “Time&Instantanious” in any case. Natively, that one has shutter speeds from 1/15s to 1/80s. It’s a very simple curtain shutter – the width of the gap is not adjustable, only the spring tension. I made a new curtain for it. I made it out of a pretty thin IKEA blackout…

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