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A viisit to the "Lavoir Public" (public wash house) with my Praktica VLC3 and its normal lens Pentacon electric Multi-Coated 1:1.8 f=50mm.
Incidentally I saw the day before that it would be possible to visit a small part of this strange and intriguing building constructed in 1934 in Lyon, France, a sort of "sento" combining public bathes and washing facility. At that time, there were no washing machines nor bathroom at home and the public bathes and wash house promoted a new hygienic area in the 30's. The building is closed now to the public but several projects exists for its reconversion to cultural and artistic activities. I just saw the light inside but it was the closure time. I don't know why, but I thought it could be interesting to come back the day after with a Kodak Tri-X film known to give a beautiful contrast in such light.
The Kodak Tri-X 36-exposure film was exposed for 400 ISO and developed using Tetenal UltraFin at dilution 1+10 for 9 min at 20°C. The film was exposed following the readings of the Praktica camera or a Minolta Autometer III fitted with a 10° finder privileging the shadow zones.
Le Lavoir Public, September 18, 2022
Rue des Flesselles
69001 Lyon
France
After process the film was digitalized using a Sony A7 body and a Minolta Slide Duplicator with a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5.
About the camera :
This Praktica VLC of the 3rd generation (VLC3, 1978-1981) was manufactured by VEB Pentacon Dresden, Germany. It came with orignal Pentacon accessories including, a shade hood for its normal lens Pentacon "electric Multi-coated" 1:1,8 f=50mm, a waist finder, a straight magnification finder, and the regular pentaprism. There are also 6 different finder screens, the Pentacon hot shoe for a flash, lens and body caps, and a Praktica ever-ready case.
The camera has a CdS photometric circuitry powered by an unusual 4.5V battery that I replaced by a set of 3 LR44 alkaline batteries in series. As the ASAHI PENTAX Spomatic SP, the bridge circuit is insensitive to the voltage difference. To be independent of the finders, the cell is functioning behind the mirror as in the Topcon Super D or the Miranda Auto Sensorex EE.
This Praktica operates at full aperture using an electrical transmission of the aperture using 3 contacts on the M42 lens mount. It could however operates any non electric M42 lenses at real aperture too by acting on the rotary switch at the top left. As for the other Praktica of the L series the shutter is made of vertical steel curtains making the X-flash synchro at about 1/125 s.
Overall Pentacon produced 85 000 Praktica VLC between 1974 and 1981 among about 3 millions of Praktica "L" (LLC MTL TL L etc).
Art Installation at MoMA, Manhatten, New York, USA.
(title is not the original title but given by me)
Now a multi use building. Herald offices are now in another part of Bellingham; Herald is located in the Barkley Village area rather than at this old downtown location.
A handmade fabric rose adorns this gorgeously stylish necklace. Three different weights of brass chain are combined with ruby quartz, acrylic flowers, and glass pearls. Hand made brass wire hook and eye clasp.
Some time ago my daughter got funky glasses that distort colors and multiply the image seen through them. Here's one weird example. You can see the keyboard and all screen edges... on top of the screen.
day three of the creativity bootcamp and today's word was multi layered.i had all kinds of fabulous,surrealistic idea's in my head about portraying the different layers of myself by combining multiple images into one ghostlike pic of cloned mini- me's but my tripod and the lighting were not agreeing with me : ( : (
so i thought what the heck i'll go further where i started yesterday and make a whole series of static selfies with a vintage look cause i really enjoy to delve deeper into old world developping techniques and really would like to take this style to another level during this course
1966 Minolta Hi-Matic 9 35mm Rangefinder
45mm f1.7 Fixed Lens
Kodak Portra 160 film, set @ ASA 125
EV matching manual exposure using built-in meter
f stops used from 5.6-11, speeds from 1/30-1/250
Scanned on Epson V600
Edited in Photoshop Elements 9 for Mac
B&W conversion in Silver Efex Pro 2
On Monday afternoon, March 29th 2010, Units from the San Gabriel, Pasadena, San Marino, Alhambra, and Monterey Park Fire Departments responded to a 2nd alarm Structure Fire in the City of San Gabriel. Batt-5 first enroute reported a "loom up" from the station and found fire in the attic upon arrival. No persons were hurt on this incident.