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Never have I managed to take a good photo with short(-ish) telephoto lenses and 135mm is no exception for me - I do not see the picture, I have to hunt it actively, so, expectedly, I don't use short telephotos very often.
Here, some high-rise buildings near my current workplace. December 2021.
Taken with Pentax MX film camera, Admiral MC 135mm F2.8 telephoto lens, on Agfa APX 400 black and white film. 1/250 exposure, ƒ/4 aperture, at 800 ASA, pushed one stop. Developed with Kodak Xtol, 1+1 dilution.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 dedicated film scanner using VueScan x64 9.5.
I got my hands on a small lot of old Agfapan 400. Not the new AgfaPhoto APX 400 made in England, but the old stock made in Germany. I expected it to turn out WAY worse ;)
Nikon F3 + AF Nikkor 50mm f1.8 + Agfapan 400
HOYA Yellow Filter
Expiry date: 1995
Exposure index: 100
Scanned on a Nikon Coolscan IV ED using Vuescan.
Believe it or not, that railway bridge officially got its name after the musician Jimi Hendrix. Sometime in the 1990s, somebody wrote Hendrix on the side in big, red letters over a green/turquoise bridge, and after a decade or two of redoing it after each bridge repaint, city officials accepted the name everybody used. Before that, a 306-metre steel bridge was called just the Green Railway Bridge.
Taken with Pentax MZ-5 film camera in its panorama mode, with Tamron SP Adaptall-2 17mm F3.5 51B ultra-wide angle lens, on Silberra Pan 160 black and white film.
Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution at 22°C and scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 using VueScan.
👋 Thank you all for pushing this photo into Explore at #369 at one point in time. Yay!
Believe it or not, where there's smoke, there's fire! Here, quite literally, but monochrome fire is harder to spot.
We've been cleaning dead trees that weekend in February, and I had a black and white film with me.
Taken with Pentax SF1 film camera, with smc Pentax-FA 28–70mm F4 AL autofocus zoom lens, on AgfaPhoto APX 400 film. Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner using VueScan.
Took out the RB 67 for a spin today. I haven't used it much since I went full-in on 4x5 (I generally didn't have much time for photography lately). Still such an amazing camera!
I developed this roll on a new-to-me Jobo CPA, first gen. Even though it doesn't feature a lift, it's very useful for just getting things done, especially regarding accuracy. I did prints and 35mm film with it already and now even 120 film. I'm planning on doing 4x5 sheets in it, too.
I must admit my dodging/burning was somewhat haphazard here but I ultimately like the look a lot. I'll probably do this as a print some time soon.
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The weather was all but comforting: very cold, windy and it started raining snow right after taking this shot. It was all gloomy but I think I made the best out of it :)
Mamiya RB 67 Pro S + Sekor 50mm f4.5 + Kodak T-MAX 100
Expiry date: 2004
Exposure index: 64
Adox Rodinal 1+50 (10:00, 20 °C, Jobo CPA rotation)
Dust cleaned, toned, contrast adjusted and dodged/burned in Affinity Photo 2.
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Tech:
Leica M5
Summaron 35mm f/3.5 LTM
Kodak Gold 100
Minolta DualScan III
VueScan -> dng + Negative Lab Pro
Cropped to 6x7
An opaque layer of fog enveloped the whole area near the river on the last day of the year. I just had to catch the opportunity, despite the fact I still wasn't feeling very well, from the side-effects of the booster shot I received two days earlier. I went for a walk, had a fair share of doubts, but in the end, it turned out to be a good idea - you don't get to see fog like that very often!
Taken with Minolta Dynax 5 autofocus film camera, with autofocus Minolta AF Zoom 35–105mm F3.5–4.5 zoom lens, on a roll of Agfa APX 400 black and white film.
Developed in Kodak Xtol developer, 1+1 dilution, for 12 minutes.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 dedicated film scanner, using VueScan x64 9.
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Nikon F6
Nikkor AF 50mm F1.4 G
Fujifilm Velvia 100
Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED
Vuescan
Taken in 2008, in Parkhurst forest.
Mamiya C330 + 80mm Lense,
Ilford PanF+,
Kodak Xtol 1+1 @ 20C for 7:45,
Canoscan 8800f, Vuescan x64,
Exposure X5
Girl roller skating outside the Museo della Civiltà Romana in EUR (the borough of Rome built for the World Fair of 1942 that did never happen because of WW II).
Technical notes: shot with a Minox 35 on film. Digitised with a Nikon Coolscan V Ed (LS-50) + VueScan.
I really need to get out and start using this camera again. My only problem with it is, it's not suited to making quick shots. Still, lovely sharp lense on it!
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Just to say, I've been posting on my blog again, for anyone interested: awendes.blog
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Zeiss Ikon Nettar,
Ilford Delta 400 @ 400,
Ilford DD-X, 1+4, 8 minutes @ 20C,
Canoscan 8800f, Vuescan x64,
Exposure X5
Spiritual, mystical, ancient, chilling. One of my favorite photos all year thus far.
I recently bought a big lot of old expired baryta papers from a town close to mine. Said lot included two boxes of Maco Expo WA3 which I had never heard of before. Tried it in lith developer – with great success! I love the super harsh contrast, coarse grain and slight warm color it produces, consistently. I have made a few more lith prints with this paper, I'll upload scans of those over the next few days.
Lith print onto Maco Expo WA3 with Moersch Easy Lith 1+10
Nikon F3 + Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 + Ilford FP4+ in Rodinal 1+50
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II with Vuescan.
Three trees bordering a path, next to my grandparents' house.
May 2023.
Taken with Pentax MZ-5 film camera and smc Pentax-M 50mm F2 lens, on KosmoFoto Agent Shadow 400ASA black & white film.
Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution, at 22°C; details here.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner, using VueScan.
View of the Gethsemane Chernigov Skete (in 19th century documents also the Cave Department of the Gethsemane Skete) from the Korbushinsky Pond.
Camera: Nikon F 80;
Lens: Sigma 24-105mm F4 DG (OS)* HSM | AF;
Film: KodakColorPlus 200;
Filter: No filter;
Exposure: as ISO 200;
Scanned: by Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 by VueScan
Leica M7, Voigtländer Nokton Classic 1.4/40 MC VM, ADOX Scala 50 (neg), V850, VueScan 9, Affinty Photo 2
Shooting session notes:
Theme: paths
Weather: Overcast Sky
Light: 8 to 10 EV @ 50 ISO
Exposure: 1/30s to 1/60s, mostly 1/45s; f/2 to f/4
The surface of the raspberry leaves. May 2023.
Taken with Pentax MZ-5 film camera and smc Pentax-M 50mm F2 lens, on KosmoFoto Agent Shadow 400ASA black & white film.
Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution, at 22°C; details here.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner, using VueScan.
I finally bought VueScan, and am once again able to use my Minolta slide scanner. I'm really impressed with the software, and in the course of hunting down some slides for a different project, decided to scan a few transparencies from a western US trip I was on in 1984. I like the b&W version of the Ektachrome slide a lot better. Somewhere in Nevada.
A totally unexpected, and somewhat bizarre scene was hiding just behind the wall next to the parking field I'm walking through almost every day - that boat certainly isn't a native vehicle there. :D
Taken with Olympus OM-4 film camera, with Olympus OM F-Zuiko Auto-S 50mm F1.8 lens, on a roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200 film. Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 dedicated film scanner, using VueScan 9.
Nearby vineyard slowly sinking into the darkness. December 2023.
Taken with Minolta Dynax 5 film camera and Minolta AF Zoom 35–70mm F4 lens on AgfaPhoto APX 400 film. Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution at 22.75°C.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 and VueScan.
Reclining Buddha, Bangkok - wiki - Wat Pho
Wat Phra Chetuphon, more commonly known as Wat Pho, is a Buddhist temple located in the Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of the oldest and largest temples in the city, with a history dating back to the 16th century.
Wat Pho is famous for its massive reclining Buddha statue, which is 46 meters long and 15 meters high, making it one of the largest Buddha statues in the world. The statue is covered in gold leaf and is housed in a hall with colorful murals depicting the life of Buddha.
In addition to the reclining Buddha, Wat Pho is also home to more than 1,000 other Buddha images, as well as a variety of other important structures and artifacts, including a collection of ancient inscriptions and a traditional Thai massage school.
Today, Wat Pho is a popular tourist attraction and a center of Buddhist education and practice in Thailand. Visitors can explore the temple complex, learn about Buddhist history and traditions, and even receive a traditional Thai massage from one of the many massage practitioners trained at the temple.
Hasselblad 500CM FP4+ Ultrafin liquid 1+10
self-scanned Nikon LS9000 + vuescan(linux) + darktable (linux)
It's 1976.
Everyone is watching in awe and anticipation the development of a Polaroid captured with the same.
For me it's much more. It's one of very few images I have where my family looks happy and in harmony together, which needs to be remembered.
The Polaroid was scanned with VueScan on Epson 3200 Photo.
I cleaned up a few scratches and faults, corrected the White Balance, used Topaz DeNoise to sharpen & denoise slightly, then cropped & added a frame making sure that the Polaroid's border was still visible.
The photo was taken by a Mr. Hochuli in Hütten, Switzerland, but I do not remember who he was or why we visited him.
Camera: Nikon F 80;
Lens: Sigma 24-105mm f/4 DG (OC)* HS I AF;
Film: KodakColorPlus200;
Filter: no filter;
Exposure: as ISO 200;
Scanned: Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 by VueScan
Again, a sunny day (the same one!) in December in a park, and a camera I've never used before. It's as simple as it can be, one shutter speed, one aperture and a plastic lens, but that works surprisingly well.
Taken with Dubblefilm Show, a simple, plastic film camera and its built-in 32mm F8 lens, on AgfaPhoto APX 400 film. Developed in Adox Adonal, 1+50 dilution, at 22°C.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner using VueScan.
The Istra Reservoir
Camera: Nikon F 80
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Film: Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 800
(develop before 02/2004; exposed in 02/2019 as ISO 64)
Filter: No Filter
Exposure: as ISO 64
Scanned by Minolta Dimage ScanElite 5400 by VueScan
The Istra Reservoir is located in the northwest of the Moscow Region, on the Istra River.
Length - 25 km, average width - 1.5 km, maximum - 4.4 km. Maximum depth - 20 m. Water area - 33.6 km², total volume - 183 million m³, useful volume - 173 million m³. Normal backwater level (NBL) - 170 m, catchment area - 1010 km². Water flow is regulated. Freezes at the end of November, opens up in mid-April. Supplies Moscow with water[2
Another from the first film through the first test of the Bronica SQ-A, with the 40mm Lense.
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Bronica SQ-A, Zenzanon 40mm f/4 S,
Fomapan 400 @ 400,
Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9min @ 20C
CanoScan 8800f, Vuescan x64, Exposure X6
Lake Chizenji, Nikko, Japan
Nikon F6
Nikkor 24-70 F2.8 G
Kodak Portra 400
Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED
Vuescan
I wanted to get back into darkroom printing for quite some time now and finally went for it.
Initially, my mission was to create a mostly neutral contact print of my previous Flickr upload. However, I received a call while working on this print and accepted it because I had a safelight filter on my phone. I proceeded as usual, but my attention was all bound to the call instead of the print.
So, I essentially messed up in about every step of the photographic printing process. Not that anyone should consider me an expert for it, because I'm not, but even I can point out all kinds of things technically wrong here: from over exposure to the lighter blotches in the sky.
However, I really do like the look of this print. It has some dramatic touch to it, surreal even.
I also made a second print of the same negative that came out exactly as I had envisioned – perfectly neutral and "normal" but I actually prefer this one. I tried to match this scan as closely to the print under "normal" indoor viewing conditions as possible. There is some more detail in it, still, but you can't really make it out under normal viewing conditions.
Printed on Agfa Brovira Speed BS 310 RC, developed in Rollei RPN Eco.
Film details:
10s @ f22
Intrepid 4x5 Mk5 + Schneider-Kreuznach Super Angulon 90mm f8 + Fomapan 100
Adox Rodinal (1+25; 4:00) at 20 °C
Expiry date: 2023-06
Exposure index: 64
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Decided to go on a spontaneous trip through the Firnsbachtal today. It was well worth it: lots of great light and compositions to make use of!
This was also my first use of FP4+. I was given this half-used box of sheet film roughly a year ago by a fellow photographer and finally got around to using it. For the development time, I just trusted the Massive Dev Chart, I have yet to figure out my own proper developing time for this box of film although I think that 9:00 is fairly close ;)
I messed up with the movements a little here which is a shame! The foreground is just ever so slightly unsharp, I didn't really pay attention. Guess I got lazy as I was beginning to become exhausted from our long trip.
1s @ f22
Contrast increased in Affinity Photo 2
Intrepid 4x5 Mk5 + Schneider-Kreuznach Super Angulon 90mm f8 + Ilford FP4+
Adox Rodinal (1+25; 9:00) at 20 °C
Expiry date: 2015
Exposure index: 80
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Camera: Nikon F 80
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Film: Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 800
(develop before 02/2004; exposed in 02/2019 as ISO 64)
Filter: No Filter
Exposure: as ISO 800
Scanned by Minolta Dimage ScanElite 5400 by VueScan
My brother's motorbike, back in 2008.
Mamiya C330, 80mm Lense,
Ilford Delta 100 @ 64,
Moersch Tanol, 5+5+500,
Developed for 9:20 @ 22C,
Canoscan 8800f, Vuescan x64,
Exposure X5
Or just the top of the mountain nearby, the highest peak I walked to during the year, but still the highest peak I've reached in 2024. And the only camera I took was this untested, cheap and simple point-and-shoot.
Despite the obvious lack of image quality, I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Not every photo needs to be sharp — that day most certainly wasn't!
Taken with Charman M-102 (very) simple film camera and its 35mm focus-free lens on AgfaPhoto APX 100 film. Developed using Adonal, 1+50 dilution at 22.5°C.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner using VueScan.
Ercona 2 (1954) folder camera, Tessar f3.5 105 mm lens. Fuji 400H 120 film, 6x9.
Epson V600, VueScan.
Light measuring: Gossen Lunasix 3.
Distance metering: Stanley TLM 65 laser.
Ercona 2: camera-wiki.org/wiki/Ercona
Tatry, Slovakia.