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Selenium toned

Not fixed. Washed in water for extended period of time then selenium toned. A test to see if the selenium is archival properties are enough to retain the image.

Diana F+ / Shanghai GP3 Film / Selenium toned print copy

while awaiting the right light for the Hasselblad shot on the other side of the pond, I made some Holga shots

Holga 120N, Delta 400 rated at 640ASA in Finol

Fotokemika Varycon in Fatman

toning

MT1 Selenium 1+20 2 mins

MT3 Vario Schwefeltoner, bleach 1+50 1 min, toner setting A 30 secs

MT7 Iron blue 5+5+10+5+500ml 1 min

Have reworked this negative many times and finally produced a print that I am happy with.

 

8x10 print on Oriental paper

toned with selenium and variable sepia toner

A late appearance of the original metered Minox subminiature, just before introducing the CdS-cell autoexposure model.

selenium toned city hall couryard view

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San Juan, Puerto Rico 2012

Print 2012

Sepia & Selenium Toning 2012

 

Beseler 23C II

Ilford Multigrade

Dektol 1+3, 2 minutes

Epson V600

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Minolta X-700, 45mm

Foma 400, f2 @ 1/15

lith print on Seagull Warmtone RC

 

Selenium toning brought out some interesting effects on this one!

Selenium toned shot of Ferrari 250GTO exiting Woodcote Corner, shot with the Fuji X-H2s and the 100-400mm zoom lens.

Clockwise:

Taron Marquis

Taronar 1.8/45

CDS light meter

Taron VL

Selenium light meter

Taron VR

Taron PR

Common features:

Taronar 2.8/45

Citizen shutter 1-1/500 and B

self timer

Rangefinder

 

This cameras were made in Japan, in the late 50's, by Nippon Kōsokki that become Taron .

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Photo Emulsion on Watercolour Paper

Selenium & Copper Toned

Taken with the Ilford Obscura Pinhole camera, with delta 100 developed in HC-110b, and then contact printed on Ilford Multigrade IV matte paper and selenium toned.

Complete with dust! Bloody dust, I can't seem to get rid of it!

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+20 5min.

oriental cooltone VC FB, home-brewed ansco 81, selenium 1+9, planar 50/2 zm, zeiss ikon, neopan 1600, hc-110. scanned negative: www.flickr.com/photos/501rf/5443485080/in/photostream

Resting atop my Argus C4R. German-made meter for Argus cameras of the late 1950's. Shoe mounted, it can work on any camera. Nicely manufactured.

Rolleiflex 3,5C

German 6x6 TLR. Produced 1956~1959.

 

The Screws that hold the Light meter Selenium cell and Rolleiflex Name Shield.

 

In the middle, no 1, the original Selenium Cell/Name Plate Screws.

Some clumsy "repairman" deformed them.

To the left, no 2, NOS replacement ones.

 

These older type screws have no provision for tool engagement so you will have to use rubber to get them out and in.

 

The longer Screws to the right (3 and 4) have holes in the head were a pin tool can be inserted.

 

Note that Screw 3 has a finer pitch thread then number 4 !

 

So 3 different types found (until now).

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WARNING :

This image is intended as a reference for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt !

I took a bike out of Xizhou China and started riding south through villages and farm fields. Incredible.

 

Fuji ga645zi with orange filter, Tmax400, Ilford MGWT toned with sepia and selenium

One of my oldest meters.

Bakelite construction.

Selenium cellls still move the needle!

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Took several shots of this gangly fellow.

 

Processing is mostly in Lightroom using selenium preset. Slight sharpening and vignette added in Photoshop.

Photo of Harpers Ferry on the potomac side with shenandoah at my back...Camera Mamiya RB67 Pro-S 50mm C lens, Ilford Delta 100 in 6x7 format. Print spec: 1:20 dilution Kodalith developed Slavich Unibrom in 11x14 format, selenium and then gold Toned, but not taken to split tone, just pleasingly rose in the highlight values.

Bessa R2A, Tmax 400, Rodinal, Adox MCC, SE2 warm, MT3a, Selenium, Gold

Styria Austria

 

Scan from print:

Paper: Adox MCP312

Developer: Mörsch Eco

Toner: Kodak Rapid Selenium

 

Film Info:

ilm: Fuji Acros 100 @200

Developer: Rodinal 1:25

Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1.4G

Camera: Nikon F6

Four months ago today.

 

Yashica Mat Rolleinar 2 close up lens and Kodak Tri-X 400 ( The Old One) Expired

Developed in Calbe R09 40:1 12 min. Selenium toned in Lightroom.

Somewhere in the tundra of the West Fjords of Iceland. Hasselblad 150mm lens, Acros film, Rodinal film developer, printed on Ilford Warmtone with selenium toning

Holga, Efke IR820, Filter RG715 @6 ASA, Finol 1+1+85

Adox Classic Vario/SE6 Blue

Tonung: Bleicher 1+70 MT3 Vario (yellow) + MT1 Selenium 1+20 1min + MT10 Gold 3min

Black and White, Selenium Tone

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

A camera like this one makes you realise the technological progress that has taken place over the last 60 years.

The principle is the same as a still image camera, only in this case the shutter has to open and close several times per second in order to ensure a moving image.

But wait, there were no batteries, so how is this to be obtained? Well, you have to manually charge a spring (lever to the front left as we look at the camera). This means that you can shoot only for as long as there is power in this spring (no more than 30 sec in a row)!

The camera is equipped with an external selenium light meter (very similar to the one to be found on the first model of the Contarex). But you need to adjust manually the exposure during filming by turning the milled wheel on the right in order to match the needles in the viewfinder.

Of course, there is no sound either.

The only modern feature is the lens, multicoated and fast (1.9 max aperture) and almost focus-free, ie by focusing close to infinity and stopping down you get everything between 1m and infinity in focus.

The viewfinder is small and dark, but it is parallax corrected and shows exposure information (match needle system).

The best of all is the extremely complex film loading system (film is loaded horizontally but must be inverted and passed vertically behind the shutter, then it must be turned again horizontally in order to enter the take up spool).

No wonder the camera is in almost new condition. It must have been a nightmare to use it.

 

evening walk with my ladies

Holga 120N

Delta 400 in efd (N+2)

Adox MCC in SE6 Blue

toning: MT3 & MT1 thiourea & selenium

Rolleiflex 2.8E. Printed on Oriental New Seagull.Moersch Masterlith 1+20. Selenium 1+10 1min

Selenium based exposure meter

silver gelatin print

watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion

sepia & selenium toned

Just another test of my "new" selenium toner. This time diluted 1+10 (0,2% sol.), rather strong but still without fading while toning.

 

Developer Sodium Citrate

Clearing Bath Citric Acid

ATS fixer alkaline

 

Right side toned: MT14 1+10 1 min

 

Sodium acetate developer for comparison

 

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Some selenium filtering on this image.

Darkroom print 24x30cm, with some selenium toning for stability and Dmax.

 

Shot on Adox Silvermax (developed in Silvermax) with my Kodak Retina IIIc folder, with 50mm/f2.0 Xenon lens. A most amazing combination IMHO.

 

Pentax 645NII, Pentax 2.8/55mm, Ilford Delta100 developed in Acurol-N 1:100, Ilford Multigrad Classic MG, Selenium toned

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Contax IIIa with 50mm Sonnar f1.5 lens;

“Colour Dial” model, available 1953-1962

 

From the 1930’s, Contax and Leica were the key players and arch-rivals in the professional camera arena. The history of both companies is fascinating. In the early years, Contax had the technological advantage. The war photographer, Robert Capa, used a Contax camera for his famous photographs of the Normandy landing.

 

The Contax IIa/IIIa "Colour Dial" models were the zenith of the Zeiss Ikon Contax marque. The IIIa differed from the IIa in having an un-coupled selenium meter on the top plate. The shutter speed dial numbers were marked in three colours: black (T, B and 1 - 1/25th), yellow (1/50th) and red (1/100th - 1/1250th). Unlike earlier models, the IIa and IIIa had a standard PC socket at the back. The colours identify one of three flash synchronisations: M (black), X (yellow) and FP (red). The post-W.W.II line of interchangeable lenses for the IIa/IIIa eventually grew to a total of 16 lenses with focal lengths ranging from 21mm to an extraordinary 500mm. Shown here is the highly rated factory-coated 50mm f1.5 Sonnar lens.

 

Production of these cameras stopped in 1962 due to pressures from various sources. The introduction of the Leica M3 and M2, the Nikon SLRs in 1959 and competition from other Japanese camera manufacturers (whose production costs were significantly lower) all played a part in the demise of Contax.

 

For more information:

johnlind.tripod.com/zi/zeissikonframe.html

www.cameraquest.com/zconrf2.htm

Ivor Matanle; Collecting and Using Classic Cameras, 1986, Publishers: Thames and Hudson

Ivor Matanle; Classics to Use; in Amateur Photographer 16th September 2006; pp 35-39

[Photo taken with:

Rolleiflex 2.8F,

80mm Xenotar lens with rolleinar no 2 attachment,

Fuji Acros ISO 100,

Developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9.5mins at 20C,

Scanned at 32000 dpi using Epson F-3200 scanner,

Processed in CS3]

Selenium cell was broken!..

Manufactured by LOMO (Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Union = Ленинградское Oптико-Mеханическое Oбъединение, ЛОМО́), in Leningrad, former USSR.

Voskhod (earlier versions are marked in Cyrillic: Восход) means "sunrise" or "ascent" in Russian; later, export models are marked in Latin lettering

Model: 1966 type 5 (export version)

All Voskhod produced between 1964-68 with quantity of 59.000

There are 5 types and 5 sub-types of the camera

As to Alexander Komarov

35mm film Viewfinder camera

Lens: LOMO T-48 (Triplet) 45mm f/2.8, filter slip-on, serial no. none

Aperture: up to f/22setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Focus range: 1-8m +inf,

Focusing: manual front cell; ring, distance scale with symbols and DOF scale on the lens

Shutter: leaf shutter; speeds: 1-1/250 +B; setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter speeds and aperture numbers are linked together by means of mechanical coupling. When turning the apertures or shutter speeds rings, the other turns too.

They can be turned separately by the pressing the knobs on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter release: on the front plate, w/ cable release socket

Cocking lever: also winds the film, shark-fine like shape, on the lens-shutter barrel

Frame counter: manual reset, decreasing type, window on the top-plate

Viewfinder: Galileo type bright frame finder w/ parallax correction lines

Exposure meter: coupled built-in Selenium cell meter

Film speed range: 12-26 DIN, 11-250 GOST, setting: by a thumb ring and windows on the bottom plate

Exposure setting: after setting the shutter speed or aperture, check the needle in the viewfinder, it must be on the middle of the lower bright line, if not, turn the aperture-speeds rings to find the correct exposure

Re-wind lever: folding crank, on the top-plate

Re-wind release: on the bottom plate

Flash PC socket: on the front plate

Cold-shoe

Memory dial : small window and thumb lever on the front plate, with Cyrillic characters

Self-timer: none

Back cover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera

Engraving on the back cover: Made in USSR

Tripod socket: 3/8"

Strap lugs

Body: metal; Weight: 690g

Serial no. 661919, in the camera, first two letters show the production year

Some very rare early models bear the LOOMP logo.

More info: in Cameras by Alfred Klomp, in Soviecams by Aidas Pikiotas, in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov, in Camerapedia

  

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