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I'm not entirely happy with this. I wanted a somewhat softer look. I may have sharpened too aggresively.
A selenium meter made by Dr. Siegfried Guggenheimer AG in 1933 in Nuremberg, Germany.
(More pictures of this and other meters on my site www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/collection.)
This is a nice old solid RED color glass lens. actual measurement is 5 inches .
selenium
yet one more story of interest is the history of development in signal glasses
standardisation of color and signal oils for their use.and Dr Mortimer frank. testing of the colored blind at distances and how flashed glass compaired to glass with solid color Railroad Gazette vol 37 pg 141 1904.
and another interesting article The Engineer vol 27-28 pg 118 1894
Seen and taken at Langstone with canon 7D2 and the 500mm prime. Yet to decide whether I prefer the tinted version or the original !
The colour has been leached from the berries by the red filter, and from the leaves by reflected infrared light. Albino holly?
Nikon FE with Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI, medium red filter.
Kodak HIE High Speed Infrared developed in Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 for 8 minutes at 20C.
Printed on Kentmere Fineprint VC Glossy FB developed in Ilford Multigrade 1+9 for 90 seconds.
Harman Selenium toner 1+3 for 90 seconds.
Lith Print
Paper: Kodak Ektalure X (tweed texture) 8x10, expired 1983
Developer: Moersch SE5
Toner: Ilford Selenium 1:4
Camera: Bronica SQ-A, 80mm 2.8
Film: FP4+ in ID-11
Lighting: only a 200 watt clear incandescent light bulb
I see this tree almost every day on my way back home from work. Last week I finally manged it to go there with my camera. Shot taken with the 503CW on Kodak Tri-X@400 developed in Xtol. Print prepared on Forte Polywarmtone RC with Moersch SE1 Sepia, MT1 Selenium and MT3 Sulphide toner.
This is the ancient Chinese architecture.
Tang Ancestral Hall, Ping Shan, Yuen Long.
The ancestral hall is one of the declared monuments in Hong Kong.
Film: Ilford HP5+. Mimicking selenium tone by Photoshop.
Another portrait for you today that was taken in the training session. Comments would be appreciated! :D
The Shot
- Canon EOS 1Ds MK III
- Cannon 24mm - 105mm L Series @ 55mm
- ISO 100 | f314 | 1/125 | Auto Focus
- Bowens Soft Box In front Top Right
The Processing
- Selenium Filter added in Adobe Lightroom 3
- Exposure and Black levels applied in Adobe Light Room 3 (Beta)
- Dodging & Burning
- Curves Adjustment (For Contrast)
- A little Unsharp Mask on the Background Layer
The Gossen Bisix Lightmeter.
Up front there is a big selenium cell which powers the needle in the meter.
No battery needed !
There is only 1 range so i guess this was ment to be a low-cost meter designed for the amateur photographer.
The Filmsensivity scale goes from 12 ASA (12DIN) till 1600 ASA (33DIN).
The Shutterspeed Scale goes from 1/1000 till 15 Seconds.
The Aperture Scale from 2 till 22.
Hasselblad 50mm Distagon, SFX in eco film developer
Some technical stuff again
The tone of Adox Nuance and Fotokemika EMAX is more or less greenish in Amidol depending on the antifog agents
Adox Nuance in two tray Amidol (Benzotriazole and Sodium bromide) 75 secs & Catechol (1+9 5ml Finisher Blue per liter working solution) 20 secs
some like greenish tones, others not
to achieve a homogeneous selenium picture tone from lights to shadows, a pretoning with thiourea is required
MT3 Vario Schwefeltoner and MT1 Selenium toner
bleach 1+100 30 secs, toner MT3 (A) followed by selenium 1+20 30 secs
If the selenium toner is omitted, the hue is only lightly warmer
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A partially Selenium toned Lith Print of Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe, Scotland.
The meta data suggestes the shot was made on a Nikon D70. It was however made witha Bronica ETRS with a 75mm lens. The original negative was made on Ilford Delta 400, rated at 200 and processed in Pyro developer.
The lith print was then made and subsequently photographed with a Nikon D70 to 'digitise' it for inclusion on Flickr.
The selenium light meter on this camera doesn't work so I'm very pleased to see that something came out on the film. First test roll.
Olympus EE-3 half-frame
Eastman Double X
Developed in Kodak D76
Pakon scan
After reading the Ansel Adams series The Camera, Negative, Print I put a selenium toned print together. His favorite tone. The small shot doesn't do it justice, but now that I'm not a pro I'm downsizing to 800px
Decided to load an old selenium toned silver gelatin monoprint of mine, having seen some lovely chemigrams by Balazs Sprenc, hopefully this will inspire me further!
another Lith interpretation of www.flickr.com/photos/sebsussmann/4561152941/
on forte bromofort - selenium toned
Best viewed on black
I've had a bit play with Silver Efex toning effects. Thanks to Andy Gallacher for teaching me this technique.
The FED 4 is a 35mm film rangefinder camera made by FED and produced between 1964-80 with quantity 633.096 units.
Its main improvement over the FED-3 is its added uncoupled selenium meter, with a window in front of the speed dial. The meter has a scale on the user's left of the top-plate, with a match-needle linked to a calculator dial. The placement of the meter calculator leaves the rewind as a thumb-wheel on the end of the camera.
Foto-Quelle sold the FED-4 in Germany as the Revue 4 (F194). Special editions were produced for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967.
Scanned papercopy
Nikon F3
Nikkor 35mm f/2.8
Ilford Hp5+ @800
D76 1+1 for 15min
Adox Nuance Normal/Hard (Emaks K888) 18x24
Developed in Ilford MG for 4 min
Selenium toned 1+20 for 4 min
Acadia N.P., Maine, USA
- Silver gelatin photography 7¾ x 7¾"
- Printed from Neopan Across 100 negative
- Selenium toned
- Oriental New Seagull VC-FB paper 11"x14"
- Taken with Rollei6008 AF / Schneider Xenotar 80mm f/2.8 PQS HFT AF camera
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