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Near the River Sieg.
Shot taken with the Deardorff 8x10 and the Wollensak 159mm Velostigmat Ser. III on EFKE 100 PL developed in Promicrol 1+14 for 7.45 minutes. Contact print on very old Leonar Umbrano Paper with Moersch SE1 sepia. Toned with MT1 selenium 1+10 for 40 sec.
AVO Exposure Meter
Selenium Cell Lightmeter.
Produced by the English "The Automatic Coil Winder And Electrical Equipment Company LTD London" in c.1937.
Almost 90 Years old and still working !
Note that it has only a H&D (Hurter and Driffield) Scale !
Bought at the annual Doesburg International Open Air Camera Fair August 2026.
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 ...)
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.
Somewhere in the Western Fjords of Iceland.....It was evening and everyone else was hanging out after dinner. Being naturally anti-social, I went out in the rain for an evening hike up a creek. Well worth the trip.
Taken with my trusty Hasselblad with some lens...maybe an 80 with Acros film printed on ilford MGWT with selenium toning
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).
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 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.
Fuji GSW690 III, TriX, Rodinal, Ilford Art 300, Catechol/SE6 Blue, Bleach 1+50 30s, MT3a 45s, Selenium 1min, Gold 1 minute.
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.
silver gelatin print
watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion
sepia & selenium toned
November 1, 2016
Super Ikonta 6x9, Tessar 105mm f/3.5
Fomapan 200 in D-76 1:1
Lith print Jan 2017 on Fomatone 132 in Moersch SE5 30+30+10/1000ml
Selenium toned
In experimenting with these lith prints, I've made my first darkroom prints in about 8 years. It's been a reminder that watching a print develop under the safelight is one of the real satisfactions of photography.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
New series: Cromer
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
for comparison: here is a redeveloped-version posted 2013
captured July 2010
500CM Planar 80mm
SFX 200 (6 ISO with 715 nm IR filter)
EFD
Print onto Adox MCC110 18x24
ECO 4812 1+14
bleached 120 sec (home made standard bleacher, dilution 1+80)
water rinse 7 min
thiourea toner (home made, 80ml A + 20mlB -> 1lit) 3min
toned in selenium MT1 1+19 2min
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 :
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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!
Minolta Autopak 500 Lentille Rokkor 38mm f/2.8 cellule au sélénium. Vitesses 1/40 - 1/90. Film 126. Année 1966.
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
Old trolley bus at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Hasselblad with 80mm lens with orange filter, Acros film, lith printed on Fomatone then split toned (carefully!) in selenium. The lith developer was nearly exhausted Rollei/Maco 1:1:50 plus about 25% old developer at about 95F.
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.