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Shot in the rain in June. Tachihara 4x5, Acros in Pyrocat, Ilford MG fiber paper with light sepia and selenium toning
Pentax 645 / Hassy 110mm/2
Acros / Germain 1:3 7.5min
Durst L1200 / CLS 500 / EKTAR 75mm
Bergger Silver Supreme
Selenium toning
Westminster. Abstract.
Nellie Vin ©Photography.
Series Winter in London. UK
Limited Edition 200
Selenium Print
Rangefinder Kiev 4 (KNEB subtype 2a)
sn# 5922914 with Jupiter-8M (ЮПИТЕР-8M) f/2 50mm sn #5930926
manufactured in 1959 by the Arsenal factory in Kiev (Ukraine)
The selenium light meter still works and is quite accurate!
Contax copy, made in 1959
Subtype 2a rarity: 3 out of 5
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
We did a lot of the stand here and do this, touristy shots. The goal here was to get the water skier in the background.
This trail circled the entire lake, and met up with other branches. Needless to say I now have a great appreciation of Madison.
Nikon FM, Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AI.
Ilford HP5+ @ 125EI, developed in Ilfotec LC-29 1+29.
Kentmere Fineprint VC FB glossy paper, developed in Ilford Multigrade 1 + 9.
Harman Selenium toner 1 + 3 for 60 seconds
It is an AE rangefinder with around-the-lens selenium censor and has similar red flag thing as Olympus Trip 35, preventing the shutter when there is not enough light.
Some other specs (from manual) :
Asa : 10-200
Lens : Hexanon 40mm f/2.8-f/22
Shutter : Seiko 1/30s-1/250s
Flash sync at 1/30s.
Manual over ride at f/2.8 and 1/30s.
(Shot with expired Polaroid 664 with Polaroid 600SE + 127mm @ f/4.7)
I put this in this folder to compare a conventional print to the lith version. Most prefer this or a cold tone version. I like the lith...go figure....Forte Polywarmtone toned in selenium, 35mm Tri-x
Rangefinder Kiev 4 (KNEB subtype 2a)
sn# 5922914 with Jupiter-8M (ЮПИТЕР-8M) f/2 50mm sn #5930926
manufactured in 1959 by the Arsenal factory in Kiev (Ukraine)
The selenium light meter still works and is quite accurate!
Contax copy, made in 1959
Subtype 2a rarity: 3 out of 5
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
Small amounts of remaining selenium on steel loop oxidizes readily when heated and the vapor burns in contact with aerated butane flame with a bright blue flame, forming acidic fumes of selenium dioxide. Selenium does not continue to burn when the gas flame is removed.
Spiratone Type NE-1 selenium Exposure Meter manual. The manual can be downloaded here. Spiratone NE-1 Exposure Meter MANUAL (8 page manual, 14 MB)
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
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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