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  • look at this cool rock I found

    look at this cool rock I found

    I don’t think this photo is the right way up, but I also think it’s the right way up. And as Alfred Stieglitz said, what difference does it make what it is a photograph of.

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  • ya I’m skeptical too

    ya I’m skeptical too

    We continue the anthropomorphism of city animals with this friendly little bird which had the generosity to just sit there while I fought with the slightly stiff focus on my 135 mm/f4 Carl Zeiss Sonnar. Camera: 60s Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, on Delta 3200 because it’s winter in Berlin.

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  • something for 1890s kids

    something for 1890s kids

    let me explain. This was shot with a ~1890s tailboard camera. Natively it’s a 9×12 camera, but this was done with a medium format rollfilm holder that I taped to the back. Absolutely everything on this camera forces you to shoot it from a tripod – it has a ground-glass focusing screen but no other…

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  • time shift

    time shift

    It’s two half-frames next to each other – honestly this worked better than I expected. It also just looks like a picture of a tram with a black line in the middle. So uhm, the concept is sound but maybe a bit more background next time… Camera: the neat little Ricoh Auto-Half E2, on …film.…

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  • street photography with a Plaubel Makina II

    street photography with a Plaubel Makina II

    Well, “street photography” – not really. Urban landscape photography? Things I looked neat photography? Something like that. It’s fun to do with the Makina because everything just looks so nice, especially wide open (f/2.9). And since winter is really dark in Berlin, you can shoot it wide-open basically every day. Good thing also thaat it…

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  • happy 2024!

    happy 2024!

    with a ~1935 Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor, and Ilford Delta 100. Basically the best night photography setup possible (sarcasm). I obviously had the Box-Tengor at maximum aperture for maximum light, which is uhm f/11. Faster lenses are a scam by Big Glass to sell more glass. And faster film is a scam by big ISO to…

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  • white christmas

    white christmas

    With a cute late 1930s Welta Welti or Weltax (it’s hard to tell). Not a special camera in any way but it folds down and fits into a coat pocket which is neat. And also it’s actually easy to hold and use, unlike its over-complicated sister model Weltini. Though to be honest I did mess…

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  • nature in the city, december edition

    nature in the city, december edition

    Shot with a ~1960 Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, with a Sonnar 135/f4 that I should be using more, really. Pretty much the ideal focal length for “look there’s a neat scene over there”. On Foma 200 (which I like much more than the 100), scanned negatives.

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  • open flash

    open flash

    I have taken this at a friend’s party a few weeks back and it’s my favorite “candid” picture i’ve ever taken. This was taken with a Mimosa II camera, i.e guess-focused and okay the beer is out of focus but somehow the focus landed exactly on the human interest (name withheld). Which is obviously uhm…

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  • Brothers

    Brothers

    unfortunately they have restored this statue by now and added the missing bits back, thereby completely destroying everything that was good about it. philistines. (why Alois Senefelder needs two naked boys sitting below him is another question but that shall stay un-asked)

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