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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Porto, January 2015. Tripod, filter #8, overexposure. Printed on Ilford MG IV FB, patience, preflash, burn-ins and careful selenium.
Lifa Colorlux
Selenium cell powered Lightcolor meter.
Found in a Polish thrift shop July 2020.
That thrift shop only sold second hand stuff coming from Sweden (by the truck loads).
This is my second Colorlux meter and quite remarkably different from my first one !!
I now realize that my first Colorlux meter has 2 selenium cells while this second Colorlux has only 1 cell (hidden underneath the dial) and is only able to measure the lightcolor, not the exposure value.
Hmmm......
River Teifi, West Wales. Re-print of an older negative....
Shen Hao 5x7. Fujinon 210mm W. Ilford FP4+ in d-76. Sepia and Selenium split-toned G3 Lodima contact print.
Selenium cell meter is still functioning after all these years.
1945-1953
It's available in my Etsy Camera Shop at www.ccstudio2380.com
Thanks, Chris
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
My wife had traveled with the boy, I had a whole afternoon to myself so I called a model in. It was just a two hour shoot with available light but I enjoyed it.
Ricoh 500 Objectif 45mm f/2.8 Ricomat Obturateur Seikosha-MXL Vitesses B- 1-500 Posemètre Sélénium. Année 1957-59
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Kodak Rapid Selenium toner. Brought out the colour on the Agfa paper. Looks more like a Lith print now
Fuji GSW690 III, TriX, Rodinal, Ilford Art 300, Catechol/SE6 Blue, Bleach 1+50 30s, MT3a 45s, Selenium 1min, Gold 1 minute.
XP2
Fomatone
Moersch Easylith 25+25+1000 6min
Omega 1+100 3min
Selenium
12x16 print so too big to scan so DSLR and bounced flash
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
The folding Zeiss Contessa 35 (model 533/24) was designed by Hubert Nerwin and made in Stuttgart during the effort to rebuild the Zeiss Ikon name after WWII. Produced between 1953-1955 Nerwin included elements from his Super Ikonta's design and specially the distinctive extra lens for the coupled rangefinder.
The camera was superbly made in every respect and was equipped with a coated f2.8 45mm Zeiss Optron Tessar lens, 9 speed Synchro Compur shutter, uncoupled Selenium exposure meter, MX flash synchronisation and coupled rangefinder. The latter having a prism rather than the usual mirror.
Above all was the high quality excellence of everything coupled with a very distinctive appearance.
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 ...)
Been selenium toning this series in the dark room, this was my first attempt at creating a similar effect digitally with Photoshop.
Originally shot on a 4x5 view camera with Polaroid Type 55 film in studio lighting conditions.
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.
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).
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.
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.
silver gelatin print
watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion
sepia & selenium toned
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.
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Mamiya RZ67 Pro II with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD.
Printed on Kodak Ektalure G
Two trays lith.
Toned in Selenium 1+4
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.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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 :
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.
Cambo SC, 225mm Boyer saphir color
Polaroid 55
Fomalux 111 in Ilford WT 1+9. Selenium toned.
Straight scan from contact print