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sea
Cyanotype contact print (25x25cm) from an inkjet printed enlargement of a 6×6 medium format negative. Still working on a practical UV enlarger, so I don’t have the stupid computer in the workflow anymore. But this is nice too. It’s on Boesner “aquarelle 300” paper which works alright, but doesn’t hold up during washing quite as…
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infrastructure
Saxony’s first wind power park, built in 1991, under my supervision (I was 2, it was unpaid voluntary work). 📷 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, in Fomapan 100, scanned negative
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old tree on even older vulcano
Shot with a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, which remains my absolute favorite from the long list of obsolete machinery I habitually carry around with me. On Fomapan 100, scanned negative.
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happy new year
Will I learn to bring a tripod in 2023? Probably not. Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives
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symptom of the universe
Not sure what happened here, with my 70 year old camera, at minus 10 degrees. Surely that’s a recipe for reliability if there ever was one. But I like how this looks ◡̈ Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives
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nature in the city
On Fomapan 400, but underexposed, so the grain is not the film’s fault. With a Contax, but at 1/25s, so the lack of sharpness is not the camera’s fault. And in my personal defense, it was really really cold yesterday 😀 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa w/ Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/f1.5, on Fomapan 400, scanned negatives
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monument
On an appropriately monumental 6×10 cm negative. Now that I have worked out that I don’t really need to scan these at ultra-high resolution, it’s much quicker to work with too. This is at 2400dpi, and it’s still 54 megapixels, which should be enough for anybody. But I really ought to do proper darkroom prints…
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slightly alarmed expressions
from the first test film with my new (1953) Contax, which I bought on eBay while slightly drunk on a Christmas market (as one does). Je ne regrette rien, this thing is just nice. Heavy, everything is buttery smooth, and it looks pleasantly weird. And everything works. Sort of, the light meter is off by…
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fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I messed up the development of this film completely, so this is more something like a camera review. Plus a Black Sabbath bootleg album cover collection. Picture quality is not indicative of camera performance 🙂 Shot with a 1937-ish Welta Weltini. But goddamn this camera is weird. I got mine very cheap in non-working condition,…
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I’m on a plate
Specifically, a 6×9 cm Lumière orthochromatic (not sensitive to red light) dry plate from god knows when. Early 20th century, after 1911. Pour la PORTRAIT it said, so la portrait I made. Exposure time 10 seconds, at f/4.5, treating the plate as ISO …stupidly low (technical term). ISO 1 or so. It was probably faster…
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every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough
all the things
by content
- art – cyanotypes, linocut, drypoint and things
- photography, mostly on film
- stuff with myself in it
- short reviews of things
- obsolete things like my trabant, or my typewriter
by film size
by camera model
- 1890s wooden tailboard camera
- generic 1920s 9×12
- 1920 No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special
- 1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2
- 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”
- 1930s Plaubel Makina II
- 1930s Welta Weltini and Welti
- 1930s Kochmann Reflex-Korelle
- 1949 Mimosa II
- 1950s Mycro III A
- 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa
- 1955 Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- 1962 Ihagee Exa “0”
- 1960s Ihagee Exakta Varex
- 1963 Voigtländer Vito CD
- 1967 Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
- 1976 Ricoh Auto-Half E2
- 1980s Panasonic Newvicon Video Camera
- 1999 Sony Mavica FD88
- Pinhole Camera
- Olympus OM-D
- Smartphone
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