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RPX400 in RPXD
Lith on Brovira BH111 in Se5 (+D + E), toned in selenium/gold (1:00, 1:30)
A relatively recent box of Brovira (~1970) which is uncommonly slow and controllable in the lith process (slow infectious development), the tone with this combination is, ehm special, but with the selenium/gold toning it comes quiet fine and it's not necessary to have an orange lithprint to achieve blue tones in the gold toner. This BH111 is a bit like the poor man's Oriental New Seagull ...
(Yes, I know, I should really level the horizon here, but it was 1 am and me completely obsessed with the tones and contrast - if you want to buy it, you get it leveled ...)
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Mamiya RZ67 Pro II with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD.
Printed on Kodak Ektalure G
Two trays lith.
Toned in Selenium 1+4
In a series of portraits of strangers I meet walking around making a short portrait session on the spot with what's available.. Here Janina is shot with a 7'' Petzval mounted on a Graflex Speed Graphic loaded with Ilford HP5+ 4x5 sheet film shot at iso800 and then the negative is toned in selenium to pop with some extra contrast. Home developed in Kodak Xtol 1+1. The negative is digitized with my DSLR and have curves adjustments for tones and dust removal.
Fuji GSW690 III, TriX, Rodinal, Ilford Art 300, Catechol/SE6 Blue, Bleach 1+50 30s, MT3a 45s, Selenium 1min, Gold 1 minute.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Kottenforst - Bonn.
One more test with the Deardorff 8x10 and the Schneider Symmar 300mm on EFKE 100 PL developed in Promicrol 1+14 for 7.45 minutes. Contact print on very old Agfa Record Rapid Paper with Moersch SE1 sepia. Toned with MT1 selenium 1+10 for 40 sec. and MT3 sulphide after bleaching (C).
I decided to try this out as a dated shot so I tweaked it closer to selenium rather than sepia tone and dropped a filter on it. I dialed the filter down to little effect. I am running down on the Old Mill captures. I used the bough to hide the electric service. I will return some time soon; all doors were locked each time I visited. It tells us a lot about the early settlers' lives in the area. This cabin was built up near Buttonrock (Rottenbuck in the vernacular). The Buttonrock story is a bit tangled to repeat. Early on, the trout fishing was legendary up there. I expect it still is if your get above the reservoir and below Taylor, bad walking terrain. It remains a great walk up the access road along the North St.Vrain. Stop and admire the KKK administration dam on the way up. Built poorly and at a bad spot, construction was abandoned. This was considerably more than Boy George accomplished in his administration.
The cabin was described as follows on the website, 'The Billings Cabin, built in 1890, was part of a hunting and fishing resort west of Lyons. Billy Bolyes dismantled and numbered the logs of the cabin when the City of Longmont created Buttonrock Dam in the area. In 1980 the logs were reassembled in Old Mill Park." I am related to the family through a marriage in my family's last generation. Billy Boyles was another area legend.
One of the rail lines serviced the original Denio Mill located near here. An early Denio Ditch delivered water to the mill. It is possible it was the Denver, Longmont and Northwestern narrow gauge but built west by the Denver, Utah & Pacific. I think I remember a picture of the Denio Mill with multi-gauge tracks. The mill RR extension ended below the hill down Gay street though the ditch must have had a source well west of here.. The Lyons branch is now operated by the Burlington and Santa Fe, (originally Burlington & Missouri River) to Longmont and shows up in recent postings.
I am slowly working on a analog darkroom series of photos relating to tea, gardens, and cafes.
This is a bit challenging because it isn't always easy or possible to set up a large camera at a cafe without getting on other peoples' nerves.
Gardens are a bit easier, as in this photo. This is the first image in the series, and I am in love with it because I love tea and the accoutrements that go along with it.
Photographed with:
8x10 camera on Ilford Delta 100 film, printed on Ilford warmtone fiber paper. Toned in selenium 1:3 for 3 minutes 40 seconds.
silver gelatin print
watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion
sepia & selenium toned
Koden Lightmeter.
Selenium lightmeter produced in Japan. My guess somewhere in the 1950's or 1960's.
Good looking but unfortunately it does now work.
Probably made by one of these companies :
An unjammed jammed flea market camera purchase. Seller couldn't get the camera's shutter to fire. Film advance wound, but no click. Sold the Aires to me for $5 with the leather case. Got the Viscount home and jiggled and nudged the self-timer until the shutter reluctantly released; works fine now. The rangefinder image is weak but still operable. The built-in selenium cell light meter miraculously still works. Nice build, solid operation.
I should have taken this one out earlier. The darker areas toned first and the cloud stood out starkly. I was hoping to tone the dark areas more so I left it in the toner but then the cloud toned too... It doesn't look bad but I was liking the whiter cloud until it toned.
This is actually cropped a bit as it is an 11x14" print but my scanner is just 8.5x11". Ilford Multigrade Warmtone fiber based paper.
Kodak Delta 100, processed in Paterson Super System 4 3-tank (with another roll of Delta 100), HC-110 1+31 (dilution B), Ilfostop, Ilford Rapid Fixer.
This is the "Olympus Trip 35". It is a compact 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Olympus from 1967 to 1984. The Trip 35 proved to be a very popular camera for Olympus, with a long production run of seventeen years and over ten million units sold. The cameras success was primarily due to its excellent build quality ease of use, and affordable price.
For the late 1960s this was a fairly cutting-edge and good quality point-and-shoot camera. The chassis of the camera is made entirely out of metal, giving it a very solid and study feel. The camera also features a four-element Tessar lens system. These high quality lenses allow the camera to produce very sharp images.
Probably the most advanced feature of this camera is the built-in selenium photocell. This allowed an amateur photographer to take pictures by automatically adjusting the shutter speed and aperture for lighting conditions. An interesting thing to note is that this mechanism is powered by the photocell itself, meaning the user never has to worry about batteries.
Over the seventeen year production run very little changed in the camera's design. During the first ten years of production the camera had a maximum film speed setting of 200 ISO. This changed after 1978, when then maximum ISO setting was increased to 400 (the example shown above it a post-1978 model)
A downloadable PDF of the manual for this camera can be found at:
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Heavy, well-made meter. Complex dial takes a bit of getting used to in order to determine exposure. Purchased from online auction as broken, arrived working. Perhaps a jaunt across the USA rejiggered a wire or two.
Kallitype (32x21cm) - Nikon f100 - HP5@320 - HC-110 - Enlarged negative / Reverse developed on lith film - Hahnemühle platine paper - Fumed silica treatment - Sodium Citrate developer - Citric acid clearing bath - Selenium 1:50 (MT16-Moersch) - ATS fixing - Bleach - MT3a toning.
Inside herring oil tank, Djupovik, Iceland
Hasselblad 50mm lens, Acros film, Rodinal film developer, printed on Ilford MGWT with selenium toning
Cambo SC, 225mm Boyer saphir color
Polaroid 55
Fomalux 111 in Ilford WT 1+9. Selenium toned.
Straight scan from contact print
Minolta Autopak 500 Lentille Rokkor 38mm f/2.8 cellule au sélénium. Vitesses 1/40 - 1/90. Film 126. Année 1966.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Rolleiflex 3,5C
German 6x6 TLR. Produced 1956~1959.
Doing some current measurements on the Light Meter / Selenium Cell combo.
Full deflection of the Meter at circa 30 µA (micro Ampere).
Ratio Mask (High Light) / No Mask (Low Light) circa 1:5
Note :
These are my first current measurements on such combo so I don't know yet if these values are typical.
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WARNING :
This image is intended as a reference for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt !
This is a lith printed image at the "other" herring factory near Djupovik. I decided to get some of the "new" fomatone and try to duplicate the old fomatone. I developed in Moresch and did an afterbath of ammonium carbonate (Moersch's omega additive) plus heavy selenium and that is about as close as I got...still missing the very cold shadows I loved. Contrary to what I've heard on the web, though, this stuff does lith....not nearly as convincingly or with as much color, though. Sorry about the lousy scan....my scanner doesn't like Fomatone Velvet paper!
Humidity settling on the branches covered them in ice. It looked like the tree extended its icy hand out to greet me.
Negative taken on Ilford FP4+ in the Mamiya 645 Pro, developed in Xtol 1+1
Print on Ilford Multigrade Cooltone FB, Selenium toned
Print 17-P-10, Negative 16-35-6
Also a rencontre fortuite of generations: Holga + Focar, a close up lens made for the Bessa range finder ...
Retro 400s in SLD
Portriga Rapid PRK118 in Se1 + selenium
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Kallitype
Selenium-Toned on Arches Platine
Sodium Citrate Developer
5x5 Contact Print from Digital Negative
Classic cameras prior to the 1950’s did not have exposure meters built into them. To meet this need as well as the high standards required by professional photographers, in 1945 Sangamo Weston began manufacturing highly accurate selenium celled exposure meters in the USA and in 1952 in the U.K. Production of the superb Weston Master II began in 1946 with the model number of S141/735.
The meter had two sensitivity ranges, one for bright light the other for low light. Low light sensitivity was selected by opening a perforated lid revealed more of the sensor, an action which automatically altered the light value measurement scale. Because ASA and ISO film emulsion speeds were not then established, Weston had its own emulsion speed system which later required slight alteration to be equivalent to ISO ratings.
Shown is a British made Weston resting on its Invercone (incident light measurement cone) which clipped over the sensor and dates from 1948. Weston Master II meters are almost indestructible and many are still in use today by owners of classic cameras.
Weston, the worlds most respected exposure meter.