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  • some 6×9 contact prints

    some 6×9 contact prints

    These are all on old (mid 80s I would guess) ORWO BS-1 paper. That paper is very difficult to keep from curling up while it dries. I should probably get some kind of press. But I also find that it results in very nice prints without much effort. The modern Ilford multi-grade RC paper I…

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  • More Makina

    More Makina

    I still find it very cumbersome to use but it’s getting better. The rangefinder is alright but it being separate from the viewfinder really slows down things even more. Anyway, here’s some things from the last few days ◡ All on Fomapan 400.

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  • The Plaubel Makina II

    The Plaubel Makina II

    …is wonderful but also probably the least ergonomic camera ever built. The base camera is already heavy and really difficult to hold. All the controls, focusing, and the shutter button are on the front plate. So the way to hold it is to have one hand on each side of the front plate, and then…

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  • anachronism.jpg

    anachronism.jpg

    This is a 18×24 cm (chemically) sepia-toned silver-gelatin contact print of …jpeg compression artifacts, mostly. I printed the negatives from my 1999 Sony Mavica FD88’s “email” mode, where it saves a highly compressed 320×240 pixel picture in addition to the “high resolution” one. You could call it a marriage of analog and digital, except that…

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  • Future Tech

    Future Tech

    Have tried out the Sony Mavica FD88 a bit today. Took 20 pictures, on 7 floppy disks, and managed to successfully copy …12 of them. Though that may also be the fault of the cheap floppy drive I have here. These aren’t the world’s most exciting photos ever but it’s still surprising to me how…

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  • The 1999 Sony Mavica FD88

    The 1999 Sony Mavica FD88

    Is kinda fun! The party piece is that it stores the images on 3.5 inch floppy disks – but it also makes surprisingly nice pictures. It’s really quite a joy to use, I’ve personally had much worse digital cameras that came out much later. The color rendering is competent but somewhat boring, the display is…

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  • bird on canvas

    bird on canvas

    Oil on canvas, in fact, 8x8cm smol. I’m not much of a painter but the little I did I did in acrylic, which behaves pretty intuitively. Oil paint, on the other hand, doesn’t dry for like a week or so and it’s a bit annoying. Though obviously it opens up the possibility of more advanced…

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  • nature in the city

    nature in the city

    Since it’s spring maybe though not totally sure. Shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, Fomapan 400, scanned negatives. Developed in xtol (XT-3) because my Rodinal is empty and Fotoimpex only had tiny bottles in store. Is it sharper? Maybe. But I usually do stand-development in 1:100 Rodinal for an hour (or two if I…

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  • Birds in color

    Birds in color

    Difficult to find things to shoot sometimes, when walking through the same streets in the same stupid Berlin winter weather. So this one is for the birds. All shot with a 1962 Ihagee Exa “0” with a Pentacon 200mm/f4 on Konica Centuria 100. The Exa’s top speed is 1/150s, so not quite the ideal instrument…

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  • advancements in aluminium drypoint

    advancements in aluminium drypoint

    It’s difficult! That much I have learned already. One really has to watch out how hard one presses on the drypoint needle, or the shadow/light will get all wrong. On the plus side, I got a pasta press, a cheap manual model (in fact there’s only one model for sale, they are all the same).…

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