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  • Amateurish Notes on Repairing a Reflex-Korelle

    Amateurish Notes on Repairing a Reflex-Korelle

    Disclaimer up front: I’m not a professional camera technician (as will become obvious). I’m also not a historian. This isn’t really a complete repair guide or anything. It’s just some things I noticed while fixing my Reflex-Korelle. Maybe it helps someone else, or maybe it’s an entertaining read, if your definition of “entertaining” is also…

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  • First Pictures from my Reflex-Korelle

    First Pictures from my Reflex-Korelle

    I have recently gotten myself a Kochmann Reflex-Korelle III, and a IIa – both from the late 1930s and both non-working. And I have just today managed to combine them into a working one. The Reflex-Korelle itself isn’t really that rare, but working ones kind of are. There are a lot of reasons for that…

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  • Postcards from Berlin

    Postcards from Berlin

    I have nothing interesting to write for these but I think they turned out pretty nice. None of these were intentionally shot as pairs because I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. Also, birds! All on Kodak Gold 200.

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  • Foma Ortho 400 is awesome

    Foma Ortho 400 is awesome

    …he said, after shooting two rolls of it, in one day, but hey. So this isn’t a full review or anything, but man I just love what it does. I’ve shot it with a Box-Tengor box camera, which doesn’t really have a lot of options to vary exposure – and it was pretty bright out…

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  • A working Exakta Varex

    A working Exakta Varex

    …is a beautiful thing. I have three broken ones (I’ll get to them eventually), but also one working one, a 1950s Varex IIa, and it’s just so nice. The funny thing is that nothing is in focus whenever I use it, because it’s really quite difficult to focus correctly with the waist-level viewfinder. I have…

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  • Cinestill 50D Elsewhere

    Cinestill 50D Elsewhere

    I have more pictures and nothing interesting to say about them, really, so here’s more pictures. All of them shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, all on Cinestill 50D, all home-developed and -scanned. The differences in color balance sometimes are I think mostly due me getting the exposure wrong. And also the fact that…

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  • Contax travels

    Contax travels

    The one other camera I had with me on my holiday was the Contax IIIa, with a 50mm f1.5 Sonnar lens, which is just such a nice piece of kit. Critically undervalued, too – especially if you go for the ones that nobody wants (III/IIIa, with the light meter that often doesn’t work anymore, instead…

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  • Cinestill 50D in Hamburg

    Cinestill 50D in Hamburg

    First time I tried this film and I really like it. For me, medium format in color always has that slight magical touch to it – because it usually looks just like the view through the Rolleiflex viewfinder. Which makes everything look awesome in a way that I can’t describe – maybe the grain, or…

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  • Forest Photography

    Forest Photography

    With a Contax. The textures really came out nicely, considering this is Kodak Gold and also 35mm.

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  • Wonky Town

    Wonky Town

    Lübeck, the town where nothing is straight. The Holsten Tor is surprisingly wonky in real life and looks like it wants to sink into the ground. The Salzspeicher – Nosferatu’s old apartment – is simultaneously leaning in all directions (but at least it didn’t get worse since the 1922 film). And the towers of the…

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