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10USD antique store buy. Massive chrome-bodied SLR with an equally large Selenium cell meter playing at center stage. Non-interchangeable lens. Could have been used in fully-automatic mode via the meter cell, or you could set the f-stop and shutter speed with two levers on the bottom of the lens. This example is slowly recovering its ability to shoot with some persistent gentle firing of the shutter.
Over Owler Tor near Hathersage, seen from the path to Higger Tor, on a slightly murky morning.
The image was given a mild selenium toned effect during processing.
Paper: Kodak Portralure G 1976 (warmtone enlarging paper similar to Ektalure G)
Developer: Ansco 108 1:0 for 2 min (high contrast developer)
Toner: Moersch MT5 (Polysulfide) followed by Ilford Selenium
This is a new interpretation of this rose picture I took in 2007. The negative was underexposed and quite thin so I mixed up some Ansco 108, a high contrast developer. Portralue's contrast supposedly is grade 1-3 with the use of filters (I haven't tried this).
I have started using Moersch's MT4 polysulfide toner for the first time. It's replacing Agfa's Virdon that I briefly experimented with (and later gave up on:). The saturation becomes much greater when followed by a strong selenium bath and becomes warmer.
Oriental_WT_SE5_lith Selenium 1:10 Efke 25 PMK pyro. 4X5
Original here-> www.flickr.com/photos/padraigmerr/6330956984/in/photostream
Zenit-EM (1974)
Helios-44M-4 lens, f=58mm, 1:2
Cloth focal plane shutter. Speeds 1/30-500 and B.
Uncoupled selenium light meter.
35mm film (24x36)
Produced by KMZ (Krasnogorsk) in the former USSR
I have also a chrome version of this one
Here some shots taken with this camera.
You can see it on Camerapedia
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Hasselblad 500C, TriX in Rodinal, Ilford Art 300, Catechol/SE6 blue, Bleach 1+50 45s, MT3a 1 minute, Selenium 1+10 1 minute, MT7 10+10+10+10+ 900 mL 2 minutes, clear bath 2 minutes, Alkaline bath 30s, Water 5 minutes.
26th November 2010
In late afternoon I took the same way for a walk with the dog and Holga. The toy was loaded with Delta 400. Usually this film is rated at 640 ASA in Finol, enough for snow I thought. But the measurement showed that more than 1000 ASA was needed - for normal contrast, not for a twilight like this. However I took some shots without great expectation because experience has shown that 800 ASA is the absolute borderline for this combi. To change the dilution from 1+1+90 to 1+1+50 would increase contrast but not speed. So I tried the normal developing with 1+1+90 and after a short wash efd as a second developer with the half of the normal time for this film. Seems to be a circuitous way, but it worked. The negs look pretty fine, with much detail in lights and shadows.
printed on Ilford MGIV (grade filter 3) in Fatman
lightly toned in MT3 and MT1
bleach 1+60 75 secs, toner 25+7+500ml 30 secs, followed by selenium 1+15 2 mins
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Lith image of a flooded cedar forest taken with a 4x5, printed on Fomatone developed in Rollei lith with light selenium toning
compared to the unfiltered version here the Efke IR 820 with a 715 filter,
printed on Agfa Portriga 118
the negative has a contrast of 1.28 logD, therefore I took a soft working paper developer
Separol Soft 1+5 2,5 mins
MT1 Selenium toner 1+8 30 secs for reinforcing black
view large for paper surface and tonal separation
Vintage Camera Selenium Lightmeter jumps back to life by just applying a little pressure.
This indicates a bad electric contact somewhere. Most probably the contacts to the Selenium Cell itself.
Zeiss Ikon
Contina-Matic II - 1958
Pantar 45mm 1:2.8
SLK Spezial shutter 1"-1/300" and B
Selenium meter coupled to the shutter/aperture rings, once established the exposure value the rings auto-lock and move together keeping the correct exposure.
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Exposure meter Gossen, Model: Sixtry, Circa: 1957, Cell type: Selenium
Measure type: Combinaton reflecting/averaging and 3D incident meter.
Gossen is a German company that, along with Sekonic, made about 10,000 different meters and gave them similar names. Gossen used the words "Six" and "Luna" often, so there are all kinds of varieties of "Luna" meters and "Six" meters. The Sixtry came out around the time that the Germans were pushing the Exposure Value System of measuring light and setting cameras. The idea was the meter would give you an EV number (a whole number, typically between 1 and 19, but negative numbers were possible) and you'd set the camera shutter and lens to that EV. The camera lens then automatically had all the shutter/aperture combinations locked in, so adjusting one automatically adjusted the other. Two unique features to this meter that make it interesting. One is the little corrugated roll-up door that covers the face and selenium cell. If you roll the door all the way back and expose the cell, it's a reflected-light averaging meter. But if you roll the door up to expose the face but leave the cell covered, it's becomes an incident meter. The other feature is an oddball: a sort of color temperature meter that uses a chart. You flip the side door open and look at the chart; there are blue and red steps and try to see which look stronger, and this tells you the color balance of the light. A chart on the emblem on the rear suggests filter combinations to use to balance the light to the film.
Same image as posted recently, with a gold/selenium tone added. I tend to prefer this one.
Wayland’s Smithy, Oxfordshire Ridgeway
29/6/19, 4:05pm
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-W 300 f/5.6
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
3” f/22
400mm bellows extension
15mm front fall
N-development, BTZS tubes, Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, 9’27”, 22ºC
Acetic acid stop, TF-4 Fix, Hypoclear, 30min wash
18 x 18 cm
Adox MCP 310 PE glossy
developed in Moersch SE2 warm 1 + 39 for 4 minutes
Selenium Toning in Moersch MT1 1+15 for 90 seconds
exposed with a Jobo LPL 7450 with a Rodenstock APO-Rodagon 80mm f/4 and Heiland Splitgrade unit
Picture taken with a Hasselblad 500C/M and a Zeiss 50mm Distagon T* on Adox CHS 50 developed for 12 minutes in Rodinal 1+50 for 12 minutes at 16°C.
original negative scan: www.flickr.com/photos/jt-c/8203902610/
Darkroom 8x10 contact print on Adox MCC paper. Split toned with selenium and sepia. A few dust spots which I haven’t spotted out yet.
Detail from part of a totem pole at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I took this photo back in 1994 on Kodak TMax 100 ASA 35mm black & white negative film using a Leica M2 rangefinder camera, equipped with it's standard lens, a 50mm f/2.8 Leica Elmar 'pancake' lens. I developed the film in Kodak TMax developer and kept it rated at 100 ASA. This is digitised from a 10x8 print that I made on Ilford Multigrade II RC paper, printed at grade 3 and subsequently bleached , redeveloped and selenium toned using solutions made by an expert chemist friend. Bleaching, redeveloping an toning was great fun, as it was possible to do in broad daylight, making it much easier to judge print density and toning quality as the process appeared before your very eyes! The print was scanned using an Epson XP-960 flatbed scanner and the scan was processed using Capture One Pro 21.
Just playing around in Lightroom
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon105mmVR
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 2 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
(this was before the wedding)
My Mom said she wasn't all that happy with the color of one of her two varieties of Stokes Aster.. so I bypassed their colors altogether and replaced them with this faux/software selenium toned monochrome look.
Plusx in efd
Reprint (close) on Agfa Portriga Rapid PRK118 in Catechol(FB) / Se1 + selenium(short)/gold (10mins - MT6)
More purist version to ... (and another angle)
The Voigtlander Bessamatic 35 mm SLR camera was made in Germany between 1959 and 1962 and 140,000 were made. The Voigtlander company was founded in 1756 and started to make cameras in 1840 so is the oldest name in cameras. The Bessamatic had a coupled selenium exposure meter the needle of which was adjusted in the viewfinder as was the split-image rangefinder.
A four-element Color-Skopar f2.8 50mm lens was fitted as standard and this had a first class reputation for sharpness and natural colour rendition. The lens was interchangeable and on removal from the camera body the Synchro Compur leaf shutter was left behind. The shutter was speeded between 1 sec and 500th sec and had flash synchronisation at all speeds.
Unusual for the period, the exposure meter could be calibrated to accept film sensitivities from 12 to as high as 3200 ASA (ISO). High manufacturing quality and excellence was evident everywhere and controls all moved with a silky smoothness. The camera had a 'rounded' easy to hold, voluptuous shape.
The camera comprised one of a trio of quality SLR cameras on offer in the late 50’s and early 60’s; the Kodak Retina Reflex III, Zeiss Contaflex Super and the Voigtlander Bessamatic.
Another Top band..
I've been experimenting with some selenium toned prints.
pi(c) Karen McBride 2009
It's been awhile since I've uploaded an anything; been working with color film and cross processing lately. These negatives are from 2011 and printed in early 2012. The paper is Agfa Portiga-Rapid PRW123 (soft, chamois matte surface) c. 1960. Developed in Moersch SE5 Lith and toned in Selenium.
Photographed August 1994 : Mamiya C220 + Mamiya SEKOR 80mm/2.8. ILFORD FP4+ dev'd in ILFORD ID11 (1+1,8min,20*C) & selenium intensified.Negative was illuminated on a light box and 'scanned' with an iPad mini using the FilmScanner app. Image was then processed in Flickr.
Pentax 645NII, Pentax 2.8/55mm, Ilford Delta100 developed in Acurol-N 1:100, Ilford Multigrad Classic MG, Selenium toned
13 x 13 cm
Fomatone 313 PE glossy
developed in Moersch Easylith 1+25 for 7 minutes and SE1 Sepia 1+200 for 30 seconds
Selenium Toning in Moersch MT1 1+15 for 3 minutes
exposed with a Jobo LPL 7450 with a Rodentstock Rodagon 80 f/4 and Heiland Splitgrade unit
Picture taken with a Hasselblad SWC/M (38mm Biogon) on Rollei RPX 400 developed in Rodinal at 16°C for 22 minutes.
original negative scan: www.flickr.com/photos/jt-c/12280107576/
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Reference FIle: FLA-160820-ND800-8019-BW_selenium
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Instant Lab with I-TYPE B&W, e-lift and Selenium toned on Canson Montval 140 lb.
Instant Lab avec film polaroid I-TYPE N&B. Transfert d'émulsion sur papier Canson Montval de 140 lb et virage au Sélénium.
Mamiya 645 Pro | Ilford FP4+ in D76 1+1, N-1
Ilford MGFB Warmtone in Neutol WA | Partial selenium toning (KRST 1+9) | Scan from a 12x30cm print
on Explore - Feb 4th 2011
Again, a very difficult print to scan. I spent like 30 minutes trying to represent the creamy whites of the Ilford and the light selenium toning and this the closest I could get. The real print is much deeper. So come home and see it! :D
This was taken like at 8am on the A25 highway. I only had my 80mm lens with me so this is a cropped enlargement - an equivalent of a 40x60 full frame print.
I used a very high contrast grade to keep the highlights from graying down and the black around the foreground tree as black. The print required anyway some extensive burning in on the left top part and on the mountains in the background center left. The burning in at the bottom right gave the necessary deepness to the scene.
I wanted to convey an eerie yet peaceful feeling, hence I quickly toned it in a fairly strong selenium bath, but I had to make sure this would not get to the mountains in the background and the overall center section.
I am planning to tone it a bit in thiourea - a task for the weekend. Will post the result when I'll do it.