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My brother though the viewfinder of my hassy, shame i didn't press another shutter release, i have to admit when reviewing this...
A shot of the Viewfinder separate from any other item. The tab is the same as the tab of the Buildable Ammo Chain Tab and can fit the BrickArms MG42, Combat LMG, and Heavy Laser Cannon
Zeiss Ikon Ikonette
German 35mm film viewfinder camera, c.1958-60
Lens a Novar-Anastigmat 45mm 1:3,5
From the first Testfilm after repair. December 2024.
Valkenburg (NL),
Blue door of "De Oude Molen" (the old (water) mill) .
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Film Kodak Gold 200.
Scanner Plustek Opticfilm 120 Pro at 5300ppi, downscaled to 2048 pixels width.
No Sharpening, with IR-Dustremoval.
Exposure, contrast and color adjustments in PSE11.
Viewfinder of a Kodak Duaflex II, captured with a Micro Nikkor 105mm macro lens on a Nikon D90. This is available for creating fake TTV pictures under Creative Commons License. I would appreciate an attribution and posting a comment here with your fake TTV.
...thoughts of Spring.
The flowers pictured were in a hanging planter back in 2015 that we had in our patio area. Calibrachoa (ca-libra-KO-a) is a genus of plants in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. They are evergreen short-lived perennials and subshrubs with a sprawling habit, with small petunia-type flowers. They are found across much the same region of South America as petunias, from southern Brazil across to Peru and Chile, inhabiting scrub and open grassland.
This is not the backside of my personal camera. It's an image that I downloaded from the internet. I wanted to try framing these flowers in a different manner and this is the concept that came to me.
The original file, from June of 2008, was made with a Nikon D70, a camera with a 6.1 MP sensor. Original image size is 3071 x 1611. After processing and cropping in Lightroom and Photoshaop the file size was reduced to 1408 x 1012. Topaz Gigapixel AI brought it back up to 2816 x 2024. Feel free to ZOOM in all the way...
Chilling along the north shore of Oahu. Half this photo didn't come out because of light leaks through the viewfinder during the long exposure...took me a few shots to realize what was going on and shut the viewfinder curtain. In the end, this light-leaked shot, for me, came out with the neatest aesthetic.
I did not found that mentioned anywhere yet:
There is a significant parallax error, depending on how you look through your viewfinder.
So: if you look from the side instead of centered, then of course the AF will still work, but you will focus on the wrong point in the scene. :-(
A Through the Viewfinder shot. Trying this new technique out where you take an old camera and take a picture with your digital through the old cameras lense to give if an old look. My sister showed this technique to me and i love it.
drained of its color. wonder how it would look backlit?
the BGC (big girl camera). was using it with the viewfinder not the flip out screen, to save battery power and see how that worked.
This morning, I have just added the last 10 photos from Forgetmenot Pond. Not very inspiring, but I wanted them for the record. I almost gave up trying to photograph wildflowers, as it was too windy to keep the flowers in the viewfinder. Next time, I will post a handful of photos taken closer to home on the same trip.
These photos were taken on 3 July 2020, at Forgetmenot Pond, which was my main destination. This photo doesn't show any of the many tents put up just within the edge of the trees or the many picnic tables that were overflowing with people, right along the path that circles the pond!
The weather forecast was for several rainy days in a row, so I wanted to make the most of a sunny day. The past week, I have had to be careful about how many kilometres I drove, before getting a service after the maintenance light came on a week ago, as I didn't want to mess up my car warranty.
On 3 July, however, I decided to drive west of the city, just into the eastern edge of the mountains. It's not a long drive and I was hoping to find some wildflowers before they all go to seed.
What a nightmare few hours, as I think half of Calgary decided to do this trip. So many cars and so many people. Parking lots were overflowing and the main highway was lined with parked cars in many places.
My first stop was at a forested area to have a quick look for wildflowers and to see if there were any fungi that had started growing yet. Very little variety in wildflowers, and I only came across one single mushroom plus a little group of a different species.
From there, I kept driving till I reached Forgetmenot Pond. This is actually a man-made pond, left over from the excavation of a gravel pit. The water is crystal clear. It's just a short walk around the pond, but enjoyable to do. The main road this far into Kananaskis only opens in June each year, as a winter gate at Elbow Falls closes in December for the winter months, to protect the wildlife in the area. This day, though, the path around the pond had a lot of people on it, and some people (families?) had actually set up various tents near the path. I had to keep walking through the trees to avoid everyone. As for Elbow Falls, there were so many cars there that there was no way I was going to even try and call in briefly. This was a Friday, not even a busy weekend day. I suspect this is what it is going to be like the whole of the summer - yikes!
I found the following 4-minute video on YouTube, taken by Kenneth Lori using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter and taken on 16 June 2016. It travels over Forgetmenot Pond and the surrounding river and mountains. So beautiful.
Later, it was such a contrast to drive a few of my favourite roads closer to home. A few cyclists and a few cars, but, in between them, it was so quiet and peaceful. Felt so good. There was even one Snipe on a fence post to make this extra bit of driving worthwhile. Not that I need any more Snipe photos to post : ) You might be glad to see a Snipe photo as, soon, it will be back to (oh, no!) American White Pelican photos. Just had to get out for a while on 5 July, partly because my place was feeling much too warm. The drive to and from Frank Lake was roughly 145 kilometers.
Two of the Mountain Bluebird families had vacated their nest boxes. I had a feeling that I was going to miss their fledging - this is what usually happens each year! However, I was so happy to spot a tiny Bluebird fledgling huddled right against the top of a fence post. Just trying to keep safe. And then, suddenly, it was no longer there. I didn't see it fly and I thought it may have dropped down into the grass. However, when I turned my car around to the other side of the road, I found a fledgling (same one?) down in the field, in an area of dried mud rather than tall grass. SO cute.
To help support a small pub/restaurant in the area, I called in and got take-out. One of the young women who work in the cafe was excited to tell me that they now have homemade chili on the menu again. The minestrone soup is also good.
There was still time, after taking a few photos of some of the usual birds, to drive on a road that I have driven so many times before, but not for a while. Happy to see a beautiful Swainson's Hawk perched on a fence post.
Finally reached home around 5:00 pm, after driving roughly 185 km since 9:30 am. So, not a really long drive, and one that still left me with more spare distance before my car had to go in for service yesterday. Hopefully, that will be that, for the rest of the year, as far as my vehicle is concerned!!
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White background shot with my Canon 30D through the viewfinder of an Argus. Vaseline smeared around the edges of the lens created the extra dirty outline.
Hacked a viewfinder out of a single use film camera that roughly matches the 47mm equivalent focal length of the 01 Standard Prime.
A bit of super glue, a hotshoe cover, and some time is all it took. =)
I can accurately use it with a 100mm equivalent lens as well.
Lviv, Ukraine.
Viewfinder camera: AGFA Optima 1035 Sensor
Lens: Agfa Solitar S 40mm f/2.8
Film: Kodak 400 T-max
Filter: Rodenstock Yellow medium (8)
Film was scanned by "Mark" Studio Lab. in Chernivtsi. I am happy with the results.
To see the pictures taken with this camera click here.
Thank you for your comments and Fav's.
Elbow Room bar, Gaston Avenue, Dallas Texas 12/30/06
I finished hanging a show with 19 framed Holga and 5 TVF photos at this nice neighborhood pub so I shot a few more when I finished. As one might expect, it's a dark space. This photo, made in December, is in the show.
through the viewfinder of a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
AkA Akarelle with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 1:3,5/50 mm, Prontor SVS-Shutter.
Rollei Superpan 200 in Silvermax-Developer 1+29 (15:30 min., 20° C).
Scan with Plustek Optik Film 7600i, Silverfast Studio AI 8.8.0r11.
Postprocessed with Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom.
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Agfa Silette-LK with 2.8/45 Color-Apotar in Pronto-LK-shutter
Advertising from the German "Photo Magazin", July 1958
Introduced in 1958, the Silette-LK is the little sister of the Silette-SL from 1957. Both feature the new coupled exposure meter with exposure value setting. The main difference is the lens/shutter combination: the SL has a 2.8/50 Color-Solinar (4 elements) in a Prontor-SVS shutter, the LK has the simpler Color-Apotar (3 elements) in a Pronto-LK shutter. But the LK benefits from being the newer camera, so it has an Albada viewfinder with a bright frame and parallax marks, the SL sports a simple Newton viewer. As you can see, the LK cost DM 199, the price for the SL was DM 249.
It should be one of the last Silettes with the film advance lever on top, on later models the lever is integrated into the body. The SL/LK have also some improvements over the former model, the Silette-L (with uncoupled exposure meter). The finish of the housing around the lens is now the same like the one on the top, the earlier one wasn't that shiny and became ugly very quickly. The advance lever got a new shape and can be operated much better. The coupling of the f-stop ring and shutter speed ring (exposure value setting) is much more comfortable, just press the two black buttons together and turn the f-stop ring. Actually it is the best operation of an exposure value setting I know so far, on the Silette-L you have to tilt one ring, which is a fiddly issue.
Trouble with my copy? Yes, the meter coupling jammed, but it was just a matter of cleaning. I had to remove the meter, respectively the coil instrument. Therefor it's better to remove the viewfinder before: the top of the viewer box is just clipped on, in the box you'll find two screws. Under the coil instrument is an L-shaped spring, it can vanish into the carpet if you just lift the coil instrument.
The slow shutter speeds were too slow, and the Pronto shutter has an escapement only for the 1/15 and 1/30. The disassembly wasn't that easy like I thought: before you can remove the shutter speed ring completely, you'll have to unscrew the knurled end of the self-timer lever and the ribbon with the shutter speeds on it. Furthermore the ring is coupled with the exposure value setting with a tab.
The self-timer doesn't work at all, but the meter with its Selenium cell does and it is in top condition.
Several years ago, I visited Bodmin Gaol (Jail), a historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and finally closed in 1927, a large range of buildings fell into ruin.
A section of the prison had been turned into a small hotel, restaurant and tourist attraction. From what I understand, the owners were seeking investment to upgrade the visitor experience and obtain planning permission to convert a large derelict section of the prison into a luxury hotel.
The tour of the Jail was fascinating, historical, creepy and a tad cheesy in places and there were very few visitors on that day.
Upon returning to the car, I noticed an open gate leading into to a large section of the decaying prison. This section had been abandoned in 1927.
I was drawn to the gate and found myself ‘checking in’ to take a sneaky peek at what lay beyond. The light was poor but I managed to get some shots of the prison wing and a few shots of the tiny prison cells. I started to imagine the dark characters who would have lived in these cramped, damp conditions and felt a tad ‘goosebumpy’ so made the decision to 'check out'.
Eventually, the Jail found investment and obtained planning permission to upgrade the visitor attraction and develop the derelict wing into a hotel but I did manage two further visits to the Jail before this was achieved.
I have decided to open a Flickr album ‘Bodmin Gaol (Jail)' in order to upload the photographs taken during my pre-hotel visits.
Many dark and dangerous characters are weaved into the Jail’s history and with the last of its 150 hangings carried out little over 100 years ago, its hardly surprising Bodmin Jail has such an eerie atmosphere.