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Harsh winter sun !
Contax G2 - 45mm - HP5@800 in Xtol Replenished. Printed on Adox MCC 110 - SE6 blue + FB - Selenium - Thiourea toning (Sepia-MT3a)
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
silver gelatin print
watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion
sepia & selenium toned
Manufactured by FED factory in Kharkov, Ukraine, former USSR
ФЭД Микрон = FED Mikron
Model: c. 1980, type 5a, produced between 1974-80
All FED Mikron produced between 1967-85 with quantity of 110.000
Series of camera. Mikron
Also known as FED-30
There are 7 types and 4 sub-types of the camera
As to Alexander Komarov
35mm film half frame viewfinder camera, picture size: 12x18mm
Lens: Helios-89 30mm f/1.9; filter thread 46mm
Aperture: up to f/16; setting: fully auto-exposure; on the camera you never know what f-stop gets set; for manual flash use the ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 1-10m + inf
Focusing: manual, ring and scale on the lens, ring clicks on the portrait, three-quarter portrait, group and landscape distances, their symbols visible in the finder, w/ handle for easy using
Shutter: leaf shutter, speeds: 1/30-1/800, speeds visible in the finder
setting : Auto and B (f/1.9 and 1/30); fully auto-exposure; At 1/30 the f-stop is f1.9; at 1/800 the f-stop is f16. In manual mode for flash use, the apertures can be set manually with a 1/30 shutter.
Shutter release: on the top plate, w/ cable release socket
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the top plate
Frame counter: auto-reset, additive type, window on the top plate, not works wo/ the film in the camera
Viewfinder: bright frame finder, parallax correction frames, symbols of portrait, three-quarter portrait, group and landscape visible in the finder with index mark moves when turning the focus ring
Exposure meter: selenium cell meter around the lens, fully automatic speed and aperture controlled, sets the shutter speed and the f-stop in a programmed exposure mode.
Film speed range: 16-250 GOST (approximately ISO 18-300); setting: by a thumb wheel on the back of the top plate, window on the top plate
Exposure setting: set the aperture ring to Auto (A), press the shutter relase (before cocking) and check the speed in the finder by index mark , if light conditions is not appropriate a red flag occurs on the speed scale, in this case the shutter not works,
Re-wind lever: folding crank, on the top plate
Re-wind release: button on the bottom plate
Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
Cold-shoe: none
Self-timer: none
Back cover: removable, opens by a small button beside the rewind lever
Tripod socket: ¼”
Hand strap lug
Body: metal; Weight: 445g
serial no. 8000119, on the lens
The normal covering of the camera is black, but this camera has red covering, I guess it was repaired. This camera is nearly identical to the Konica EYE half-frame camera of the same period
More info: in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov, in Sovietcams by Aidas Pikiotas, in Communist Cameras by Nathan Dayton , in Flickr Group FED Mikron
Adox MCC
SE1 Selenium toner 1+10 1 min
MT7 Iron toner 5+5+10+5+1000ml 1 min
Fomabrom 123 with different toning times
Kallitype (24x24cm) - Hasselblad 500C - Distagon 50mm - TriX@320 - Two bath HC-110 - Enlarged negative / Reverse developed on lith film - Hahnemühle platine paper - Fumed silica treatment - Sodium Citrate developer - Citric acid clearing bath - Selenium 1:50 (MT16-Moersch) - ATS fixing.
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.
SFX200 (filter 715nm) rated at 6 ASA, eco film developer
print negative 20x20cm on Wephota FO5 by reversal development (Blue 1+20 - potassium bichromate bleach - SE6 Blue 1+20)
Vandyke print on Arches Platine, Selenium toned
The skyline of Lower Manhattan, including TriBeCa and the Financial District (with One World Trade Center), as see from the New Jersey Waterfront. This was the first long exposure I took with the Sigma 10-20mm, pretty happy with the way it came out.
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.
Rolleiflex 2.8E. Film Maco PO 100c. Printed on AGFA Portriga-Rapid PRN 118. Developed in Moersch Eco 4812 + Selenium 1-20 + bleach 1-50 + MT3 70-10-850
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......
Yokkaichi, Mie July 8, 2012
DAYI TOYO Portable 4x5
6x7 roll film holder
super angulon 47mm F5.6 XL
TMAX 100 120
XTOL 1+1 20℃ 10min.
ILFORD multigrade FB warmtone
Korectol E 2min.
Kodak rapid selenium toner 1+6 6min.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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
Olympus Trip 35 with D.Zuiko 2.8/40
For 35 mm film, 24x36 format
My first one :) Usually I try to avoid cameras which exposure settings completely are depending on selenium cells, but this one came in good and working condition for some Euros, inclusive bag, lens cap and Olympus UV-filter SL39.3C. It's a fairly simple camera, and simple to operate: just focus and press the shutter button. There were camera with the idea of "point'n'shoot" on the market already, but I think the Trip was the first one with that compactness and easiness. So it got very popular (until today) and from 1967 to 1984 5,400,000 units were made, according to the serial numbers. It was so successful, that Olympus used the name "Trip" for later camera models, like "Trip AF", even in the present millennium.
Some specs:
* automatic exposure, programmed shutter
* shutter speeds: 1/40 s and 1/200 s
* ISO-range: 25 to 400
* bright frame viewfinder, Albada-type
* lens with 4 elements in 3 groups
* zone focusing, 4 steps (1-1.5-3-inf,m)
* PC-socket and hot-shoe for flash
* x-sync: 1/40 s
* for flash any f-stop can be set, 2.8 to 22
* film advance with dial, no rapid lever
* shutter button is locked in case of insufficient light, a red flag appears in the viewfinder then
* in the viewfinder is a tiny window which allows to control exposure and distance setting
* no B-setting, no self-timer, but tripod bush and thread for cable release
* filter thread 43.5 mm
Some notes:
* A quirk? If you choose a certain f-stop for flash photography the camera closes the aperture further if there is too much light.
* There could be a special reason for the lack of a self-timer. While taking a picture the shutter button must be pressed down to operate the aperture. So, a self-timer will not only require a clock, but also a device to hold down the shutter button.
* the silver-colored shutter button was replaced by a black one out of plastic in 1978.
I always thought that the Trip 35 was the role model for the Konica C35, but that can't be true: the C35 was introduced too shortly after the Trip 35. And the C35 has much more features: rangefinder, exposure metering with CdS-cell, self-timer, B-setting and rapid lever for film advance. And it has the modern Copal B-mat shutter, where the shutter blades also serves as aperture. The Trip 35 has diaphragm and shutter separated. I don't know the prices, but it seems that the only argument to buy a Trip was a reasonable price.
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.
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.
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.
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.