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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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More LCA-120 Urban

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Back in Westfield, NJ, Walking around behind the businesses. The sterile store fronts in this “bubble town” are lovely with their windows and bucolic shoppers (I do live here), but the backs of the stores are where the interesting stuff is. This all with the 120 film LCA-120 ultra wide angle P&S.

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Nikon S2 in the woods

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Got a new, to me of course, Nikon S2 Rangefinder camera from Igor’s Camera Exchange (highly recommended, by the way), got it CLA’s by Pro Camera in Charlottesville, VA (also great guys and great work). Loaded it up with Delta 100, which I love in HC-100 Dil B and went to a local, very tired nature preserve. Most of the local town nature places here in Northern NJ are overrun by deer, so they are devoid of much understory. Not good. But this can make for nice patterns. This one, in Fanwood, NJ, also has a boardwalk that has nice

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The Bench in Black and White

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“The Bench” got another treatment in February when, as the post in the snow, was lit by that wonderful late-afternoon sun. The light comes through just over my neighbor’s house for about 10-15 minutes about an hour before sunset and creates this great light. I looked out my office window and saw how nice the light was and grabbed my Kodak Retina IIa, that had a roll of the wonderful Kodak Double-XX black and white film it. I metered with an incident meter, because I wanted the highlights properly metered. I decided to allow most of the shadows to fall

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Kodak Retina IIIc vs. IIa – Newly serviced

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Just got my new IIa 016 back from Chris Sherlock today. Boy, he does good work. My only other Retina is a IIIc 021 (non-working meter) so now I have a comparison of two cameras that were a few years apart. 1. Size / Weight difference – It’s significant when you pick up the cameras. That increased top holding the meter makes the IIIc camera feel a lot bigger. In addition, the front of the IIa is flat, whereas the IIIc is curved, which makes the IIa easier to hold and it feels narrower. The overall impression is very different

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