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Half-Frame – More goodies with the Canon Demi

Film, Half Frame /

More frames from my Canon Demi EE17. This is a very nice half-frame camera. The more I use it, the more I like it. Nice bright finder. Auto-exposure via SS-preferred. Yes, it’s a zone-focus camera, so no rangefinder. But that’s not a huge issue, at lease not for me. The AE has been very good for me. I have a CRIS adapter in it to convert for the PX625 battery. I especially love the first one with it’s shadows. All photos with bulk-loaded Kodak 5222 Double X in HC110 B. My favorite emulation combo right now. The images are sharp […]

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Half Frame Stripes

Film, Half Frame /

Unexpected photos from a 1960’s Canon Demi EE17 half frame camera. The Kodak 5222 Double-X is a tad grainy, but it’s sharp. Developed in HC110 Dilution B for 5 minutes. I love the striped shadows. No special subject, only the sun shining through a railing at my Mother-in-Law’s apartment.

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Pinhole @ the Beach

Film, Pinhole /

Went to the beach in September and only took one camera aside from my phone, my little Chroma.Camera 35mm film pinhole camera. I’ve had mediocre results with this camera, but maybe I need to think differently about it. I took it down to the water in Sea Girt, NJ where the ocean shore has nice scenics. I focused on abstract, simple images like these, where I only took photos of the water and the surf. I decided to use Ilford Pan F+ film, which I hoped would help with fine detail. This is the result, at least the first of

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Meters in panorama

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Not super photogenic, but I liked the scene taken in the panoramic format. This was taken with the Noblex 135U film panoramic, swing-lens camera on Portra160. Another of my random photos of the back of urban NJ businesses. I liked the yellow pole in the middle bifurcating the scene. I with that there was nothing on the right side, but that’s what was there and I not into making up backgrounds by wholesale Photoshop tools, so this is what I got.

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Yummy

Film, Rolleiflex /

Rolleiflex shot of a now For Sale ice cream location. Used to be Frosty Freeze in Garwood for 20-30 years, then closed and renamed somewhere around the pandemic. Now FS again. This taken in late June, now in late July the For Lease is gone. This taken with my Rolleiflex, but needed extensive Ps work to correct perspective and clean up the area around the structure.

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Abandoned

Film, Rolleiflex /

Behind Young Paint in Fanwood, NJ, there sits an old shed. Probably used by that business for storage. Young Paint was a great, local paint store with a bunch of very knowledgeable guys who would spend the time to work with you to get the right paint or varnish for your needs. Founded in 1957 it was a fixture of the community. I don’t know what actually happened, but I imagine it succumbed to the big box Lowes and Home Depot like so many neighboord hardware or paint stores. Regardless of the service, the big paint companies don’t want to

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Dandelion taking over

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Quick shot of a dandelion plant trying to take over a now-abandoned garage. Sevelle’s Auto Garage, sold by the family, now slated for a pocket park and multi-family housing, just like so many old businesses around here. The days of all these gritty businesses clustered around the train lines on North and South Ave in Westfield and Garwood is numbered. Nobody wants large industrial businesses, of course. Stuff like metal bending, textile mills, ets. The time for that is LONG gone. Now the commercial businesses are being scooped up by landlords who have decided that rather than have an Auto

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Sprockets in Atlanta

Film, Lomo LCA-120 /

Sprocket photos from Atlanta. This is 35mm, Double XX film in my Lomo LC-A 120. I did make the mistake of not setting the focus before the shot, which I find is the most irritating aspect of this camera. Because it’s so much of a Point-and-Shoot camera……and it’s viewfinder camera, i.e. no rangefinder, it’s very easy to forget to focus. What I need to do is develop a better routine when shooting these sorts of cameras, i.e. those with no focusing aid. With a rangefinder patch or an SLR’s focusing screen, it’s super-intuitive to remember to focus, or something is

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Winter Canoes in X-Ray

Film, Lomo LCA-120 /

More fun with the Lomo L-A 120. This time with FPP X-Ray film, an orthochromatic, medical X-Ray film cut down to 120 size and format. I exposed it at ISO 100 and developed it in HC110-Dilution B at the recommended 6 min. The negatives were nice, but boy were they dense. So next time I’ll cut the ISO to 200 (1 stop less) and cut the development by 1 minute. The canoes are dark green, while the wood planks are teak-colored brown, even they show almost the same tonality. I not only love the patterns, but the delicate tonality of

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LCA-120 and 35mm Film

Film, Lomo LCA-120 /

Got a Lomo LCA-120 camera a couple of months ago and have been really having a fun time with it. In case someone doesn’t know, it’s a point-and-shoot 120 camera with an autoexposure aperture and shutter speed, 4-position scale focus, and an ultra wide angle 38mm lens (equal to a 21mm on 35mm film). Not super sharp on the edges, but a lot better than a Holga. Super-expensive for what it is at around $400, but the only alternatives are a Hasselblad SWC at $3k or a 3D-printed camera, and the closest you can get is probably a 47mm Angulon.

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Wide Angle Urban

Film, Panorama /

Had the Noblex 135U out in Westfield, NJ in February for urban shooting, definitely my favorite type of photography right now. I really like this camera, but like all panoramas, you really have to be careful with your levels, so I have both an in-camera and a hot-shoe, 2-way level on the camera. I find that the best shots come from holding the camer at waist level where you can really get the level right or on a tripod. You also have to be very careful with fingers and side subjects given the 140 degree FOV. No tilting.

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