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As their first drawing assignment, students practiced using different types of line and shadow in pencil drawings of their shoes from observation.
I received my order today. There is also some oil cloth that I have hanging up to un-crease. What shall I make??
Exchanging knowledge and non-knowledge during one night in the The Bluecoat in Liverpool at the Blackmarket for useful Knowledge.
Subject: on waste: the disappearance and Comeback of Things & Values
An Installation with 50 experts, a digression on the Rhetorics of the Dialogue and a Shadow Play for a Dialogue Duo.
A half-day photographic excursion from Lyon to Aix-les-Bains, France, on January, 11, 2024.
Situated on the shore of the largest natural lake of glacial origin in France, the Lac du Bourget, this resort is a major spa town; it has the largest freshwater marina in France. It is the second largest city in the Savoie department. Aix-les-Bains was a leading town of the "Belle Époque", of international renown, Aix-les-Bains was a vacation destination for nobility and the wealthy. Although the thermal baths are no longer the main attraction in Aix, the area continues to be draw visitors for water sports and activities. The town has partially compensated for the loss of visitors coming for spa treatments by developing tourism. It hosts up to 200,000 general visitors annually, between tourists and people seeking mineral bath therapy.
I brought along my FOCA Standard 1*, type PF1B, a French 35 mm camera manufactured in the O.P.L. (Optique & Précision de Levallois ) factory of Châteaudun, Eure, France, year 1951.
I loaded an Ilford HP5+ film exposed for 400 ISO. The lens was equipped with the FOCA metal shade hood 36mm push-on, specific for the FOCA 1* and the regular camera lens Oplar 3.5/3.5cm. A FOCA AUV was also used for the whole session.
When necessary, I used a laser meter to determine some object distances for correct focusing bellow 5m. The weather was a bit cold (0-1°C) and remained cloudy for all the day.
Avenue Marie de Solms, January 11, 2024
73100 Aix-les-Bains
France
After complete exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 at 20°C for 6 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg plus some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the camera and the lens :
The FOCA Standard was the entry model of PF (French: « Petit Format ») O.P.L. FOCA camera's with 36 mm screw mount lens. The camera is the 1951 evolution of the FOCA PF1B (1 star) with the possibility to interchange lenses with the 36mm OPL screw mount. The regular lens delivered with the FOCA Standard was the Oplar 1:3.5 f=3,5 cm, a wide-angle (non retrofocus) lens more easy to use using zone focusing. The PF1’s, as the Standard’s, had no range finder and was equipped by default with an integrated finder matching the field of the 35 mm lens. The focal shutter is also limited in the range 1/25 to 1/500s plus B. The Foca Standard was a simple, very reliable, and endurant camera that was preferred for intensive uses for industry or by the "photo-filmeurs" in the 50 and early 60's.
This specific camera is a model -2 version 5 of the type PF1B, non synchronized for flash, produced in the year 1951. It cames with a rubber FOCA push-on 36mm lens cap and a FOCA leather ever.
The camera and the lens are both in a very good condition. The lens in particular has still a pristine anti-reflect coating and the time. According to its serial number, the lens would be model-1 version 3 year 1952.