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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request
Fallrohr-Sticker
Sticker on a downpipe
Nikon F6, 55mm Makro, Kodak TriX in Moersch EFD, Lithprint auf Fomatone MG 131; Moersch SE5 (first tray 50 A , 50 B 1000 H2O, 40 D; second tray 5 Lith Omega 500 H2O), partially bleached, partially selenium toned
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
A lumen print, something different for a change!
This is the first ever lumen print I'm truly satisfied with. I've tried the technique a few times before but the results never convinced me, most of my sorry attempts' resulting prints ended up in the bin.
Last evening, I collected some leaves for a different photo idea I had in mind (and still do...); I thought I might try a lumen print of the smallest leaf first as it's so nice and sunny today.
I chose a sheet of the most desolate/deteriorated, entirely unusable (in both normal and lith developers!), bin-worthy pack of photo paper I have around right now: Chemaphot Oriental RP 111. It's a trial pack of 10 sheets in 18x24cm that I once acquired for 1€ on eBay, I've been wanting to toss it out for ages now – thankfully, I haven't yet!
Before fixing, the paper exhibited pleasant tones of strong purple, pink and orange and good contrast, appropriately revealing the leaf's structure. I knew fixing it would annihilate all and any traces of those tones – and I was proven right. Post fixing, the paper not only showed an objectionable lush pink tone but also the contrast was flattened so far that the leaf structure was barely visible anymore.
Massively disappointed, I wanted to toss this sheet just as I had tossed all my prior lumen prints but decided to try toning it in selenium first in an attempt to reduce the ugly pink color. And it worked even better than I had envisioned! Not only did it end up with a much more pleasant tone that doesn't resemble the original pink at all, the selenium toner also did amazing work in revealing "shadow" detail, therefore restoring the leaf structure and also the slight shade behind it.
The selenium toner really saved this print, it made all the difference to it!
A while ago, I read a fellow darkroom printer's statement that even the most desolate and "bin-worthy" photo paper still has some use and life left in it, you just have to know how to "unlock" it – I can only agree.
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There is next to no info to be found about this photo paper or the company behind it. If anyone knows something about either, please share your wisdom! :)
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Printed on Chemaphot Oriental RP 111 RC paper
Exposure time: 3:15h
Toned in selenium (Moersch MT 1 1+10; ca. 1 min.)
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Working on the new website...your observations are welcome.
www.colincampbellphotography.co.uk
I've tried to keep it as simple as possible with no distraction from the images.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Canon EOS 50E (Elan Iie)
Canon EF 50mm 1.8
Agfa APX 100
Rodinal 1:100
Stand development
Scan from print
Lith print:
Rollei Superlith (170) aprox. 15 min.
Paper: Adox Fine Print Variotone Premium (Matt)
Toned with selenium
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request
Previously known as 'curious leaves'.
Dark room print on FB paper, slight toning with selenium and sepia.
Negative shot by 6x6 Dacora I with Ennagon 75mm/f3.5, aperture fully open and focus at 1 meter.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Silver gelatin prints available on request
I still have some of these left to process. I could have stayed out here all day with just the dog and the snow-covered trees for company. The only problem here is that Holcombe Lane is a back road connecting the top of Teignmouth and the back of Dawlish. Cars flashed past me every few seconds, and this was taken standing in the middle of the road!
I've applied a slight selenium tone, and the focus on the foreground tree is intentionally selective.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
La Voigtländer Vitessa deu ser una de les càmeres de 35mm més inusuals de la seva època, i compta amb més d'una caracteristica força inusual.
Es tracta d'una càmera telemetrica de 35mm plegable i amb fotometre, fabricada el 1956. Fins aquí res d'especial. El fotometre es de seleni d'un tipus una mica inusual però res més. Però la manera com es plega així com avança la pel·licula son especials. L'objectiu es desplega i replega rera unes "portes de graner" dobles, força inusuals. Amb tot, hi ha alguna altra càmera amb "portes de graner", com la Chinon Bellami.
El que sí sembla realment unic és l'avençador de pel·licula/carregador del obturador. Es tracta d'un gran "embol" a la part superior que funciona apretant-lo fins a baix de tot després de càda fotografia. També es plega manualment un cop s'ha tancat l'objectiu rera les "barn doors".
Per tot plegat la Vitessa sembla una curiositat amb més interès com a col·leccionisme que per a fer-la servir com a càmera, però he vist que és obviament prou valida (és una Voigtlander, després de tot). Obviament, com indica el seu nom, es força ràpida de fer anar, amb aquest llarg "carregador".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApMpt9hU7c
voigtlander.pagesperso-orange.fr/cameras.htm
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The Voigtländer Vitessa must be one of the most unusual 35mm cameras of its time, and it has more than one rather unusual feature.
To see it in folded position: flic.kr/p/2oQtyLJ
It is a 35mm folding rangefinder camera with photometer made in 1956. So far nothing special. The light meter is of selenium and of a somewhat unusual type but nothing else. But the way the camera unfolds and advances film are special. The lens unfolds and folds behind some rather unusual double "barn doors". There are only a few of other cameras with "barn doors", such as the Chinon Bellami.
What does seem really unique is the film advancer/shutter loader. It's a big "rod" at the top that works by squeezing it all the way down after each shot. It also can be folded manually once the objective has been closed behind the "barn doors".
All in all the Vitessa seems like a curiosity with more interest as a collectible than for use as a camera, but I've seen that it's obviously valid enough (it's a Voigtlander, after all). Obviously, as the name suggests, it is quite quick to operate, with this long "loader" rod.