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  • Fishy Circles

    Fishy Circles

    Still learning how to use the fisheye lens that I adapted to my Reflex-Korelle. Well, not really learning how to use it, because it is super simple to use. More like learning what to use it for. Apart from the horizon directly in the middle, and exactly one vertical line down the middle, the only…

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  • Infrared Experiments

    Infrared Experiments

    My Olympus OM-D E-10 Mark II has seen little use since I got into analog photography, and old mechanical cameras. So I thought, might as well convert it to full-spectrum (by taking out the internal IR filter) and have some fun with it. I almost destroyed the camera in the process, as is tradition (for…

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  • Ultrawide Adaptations

    Ultrawide Adaptations

    This was shot with a “Zodiak-8” 30 mm f/3.5 lens, adapted to a 1930s Reflex-Korelle. Somehow, there is no commercial adapter available for that combination (I got the lens with a Pentax 6×7 mount), so I had to make my own. Capitalism sleeping again. The adapter is 3D printed and my design is not exactly…

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  • Subminiature Berlin

    Subminiature Berlin

    More from the 17.5 mm Mycro III. At f/8 and 1/100s, things do get considerably sharper. Not that it matters, because I still find it impossible to use this little thing without giggling l. It doesn’t look like it should work, but it does. And from the 8 pictures on this film only two had…

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  • Mycro Fun

    Mycro Fun

    Almost forgot just how much fun this thing is to use. I had it on the slowest shutter speed (1/25s), where unfortunately the shutter stays open sometimes. So I only have 2 pictures out of 8, but these turned out pretty fine for what it is (all with the widest aperture, too, f5.6): On Adox…

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  • Today we Tessar

    Today we Tessar

    Still with the Reflex-Korelle, which has survived its second film now. Apart from the really fun but also stupidly heavy 24cm Tele-Xenar, I also have an 8cm f2.8 Tessar for it, which makes the whole thing almost compact. Much easier to use, in any case. I haven’t really used it to it’s full potential yet,…

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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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