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Half Frame 2-Up Diptychs

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The classic way to use a Half Frame camera is to take 2 or more photos right after each other and print them all at one time, including the sprockets and the surround frame numbers onto one sheet of paper. I don’t use a darkroom any longer, so I do the same thing digitally. These photos are with my trusty Canon Demi EE17 camera. It’s been CLA’d (Clean Lubricate Adjust). It is a manual + auto-exposure half frame camera from the mid-1960’s. Lovely, mostly metal construction. I got mine from Ebay and then paid for the CLA. Before I sent […]

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Color Pinhole at the Playground

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Color pinhole photos. I think I really like them. Pinhole photos are traditionally Black and White. Photographers have made pinhole photos with either BW film or BW photo paper for eons. The process is well-documented and is a stalwart of photography student courses. BUT…..while I like BW photos, some subjects really, REALLY deserve color. In the sleepy little town of Apalachicola, Florida, there is a tiny water park and playground that was obviously the brainchild of someone in the past. It’s behind a school and next to a now-closed day school. I found this location by just driving around early

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Color Sprockets – LCA120

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Something new this time, sprocket photos with color film. These were shot on my Lomo LCA120, which is great for sprockets because it has wind-on advance vs back-window frame numbers. These are a mixed bag of photos, but I think that the first one, the greenhouse door, is my favorite. I should back up a little on these photos to move the subject inside the sprockets. The film also, Gold 200, should have been rated at 125 or 160 to overexpose a little. The negatives were a little thing and hightlights bloomed more that I would have liked, especially on

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Opaque with the XA

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More OPAQUE images to compare/contrast with the ones on THIS PAGE. The photos here were taken with my venerable Olympus XA which I purchased new around 1979 when they were introduced. One of the smallest 35mm film cameras ever produced along with the Rollei 35 and the Minox 35 series These photos were taken in Covington GA around the old Depot between Covington and Oxford. The film used, Rollei Retro 400S, lends a nice grittiness to the photos, in my opinion. This “building” no longer has a roof, so the slab floor and the brick walls are open to the

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Opaque Images

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A now-closed dry-cleaning plant in Plainfield, NJ, G.O. Keller is just standing there, waiting for demolition and development. They had operated for 130 years since 1894 in the same location. The plant is slated for redevelopment into a mixed-use facility, as it is only a block from the lovely Netherwood Train Station. There are such nice textures at this site. The photos were taken with a Voigtlander Bessa-R Rangefinder camera made in the 90’s with a similar vintage Norton f/1.5 Aspherical lens. The other set taken with the Olympus XA is Here Wonderful black and white subjects at this place

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Canon P and a 24mm at the Pond

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So you’re out on an errand on a Saturday with no time to really spend, but you have a film camera with tilm in it and you start looking for a place to take a photo. It was still winter when I took these and I had a 1959 Canon P with the wonderful Chroma 24mm f/11 fixed focus fixed aperture lens. I took a bunch of photos with my favorite Kodak 5222 Double-X and developed it in HC110….actually Legacy Pro LC-110….in Dilution B. The sharpness of this lens is really good, but you do have to have decent light.

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Kodak Hawkeye Brownie

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These are photos taken with a 1950’s box camera, the Bakelite Kodak Hawkeye Brownie that takes 620 film. I hand-re-rolled the film + backing paper from a 120 spool to a 620 spool, which works great. I use a Graflock back for one phase of the re-roll, which also works great; the other phase in a dark bag. I also took this camera apart and cleaned out everything, VERY easy to do as it’s so simple. The lens produces surprisingly nice results as long as you stand far enough away from your subject, 10-12’ is optimal. I also have the

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220 pinhole

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Sitting on Rt. 35 N around Keyport, just before you go into Atlantic Highlands is this building with the address 220. Boarded up, it looks like it was a garage at one time, them maybe a restaurant, as it has a walk-up window. I need to come back on a day with less harsh light. These all taken with my Reality So Subtle 6×6 pinhole camera on Fomapan 100

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Yummy pinhole

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In Cranford, NJ on North Avenue there sits an ice cream shop that has undergone many names over the years. For the past few, it’s been called YUMMY. This changed recently, but not before I was able to go there and take some pinhole photos with my Reality So Subtle 6×6.

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Graveyard Portraits – Pinhole and Digital

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Near Covington Ga, my family has owned a large plat of land for about 50 years. On that land is a 19th/20th century cemetery founded by the Cook family. There are about 30-40 graves there from the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s. There are only a few well preserved and many of the larger stones have been either knocked down intentionally or fallen down of their own accord. There are mature trees on the site. There is a 5×5 stone pillered fence with very old, flat twisted barbed wire around it through holes drilled in the fence posts. I

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Square Pinhole at the NJ Shore

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New Year’s Day 2024. I took a trip to the shore for a group shoot with the Essex Photo Club on NY Day, as is the club custom. We went to Asbury Park, NJ this year, which has a nice shore and boardwalk. It’s seen better days, but it’s also seen worse. The town has been through trials and tribulations and is slowly getting revitalized. The boardwalk was obviously redone, so it’s very new. We got there around 9:00, which is pretty early for New Year’s Day standards, so it was very quiet. I was using my new Reality So

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