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Dec. 16, 6 Frames with my 27mm Lumenbox Lens
Long time readers will have seen shots similar to this before. When I first got my Lumenbox, Jorge Otero (inventor of the Lumenbox and other amazing cameras) sent me a 27mm Lumenbox lens to experiment with. I crudely adapted it to fit a Barnack rangefinder by drilling out a body cap and gray tacking the…
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Dec. 13, 4 Frames of Adox CMS II Inside.
The Adox Adotech IV developer that is the recommended developer for CMS 20 II doesn’t have a very long shelf life, this batch that seemed like I had just mixed up a couple days ago, was about to expire, so my primary inspiration to finish this roll of film was to just not waste the…
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Dec. 9, Blurry
I was finishing up a roll of Adox CMS 20 II that I was shooting at ISO 12 when I decided to finish the roll with indoor shots. As you can imagine this resulted in some quite long exposures that required a tripod and cable release, which was all fine and good until I decided…
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Dec. 5, 5 Frames On the Outskirts of Reno with a Zone Plate and Lomochrome Turquoise;
There is nothing quite like a clear winter day in the high desert. There’s something about the brightness of the sun, the clarity of the air and the crispness of the shadows that I haven’t really seen elsewhere. The air and light take on an austere cold beauty. It was just such a day in…
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Nov. 20, And 7 More Frames of Turquoise;
These are from the same roll as the Apocalyptic Reno post, but I didn’t think they really fit in with that grouping of shots. Taken with my Leica Ic and Voigtlander 15mm, developed by The Darkroom in San Clemente.
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Nov. 17, Apocalyptic Reno, 16 Frames of Reno Businesses with Lomo Turquoise and my Leica Ic:
To be fair, I expect that any locale with orange skies and turquoise vegetation would look at least somewhat apocalyptic. I have to admit that when my three rolls of LomoChrome Turquoise 35 arrived I was pretty excited to see what the results might look like. Previously I had been quite impressed with LomoChrome Purple,…
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Oct. 16, Pods, Grass and Prickly Pear with the Canon Auto Up:
I recently acquired an old Canon Auto Up VII close up attachment to fit my Serenar 50mm f/1.8 lens, here are my first attempts with it. Shot on Kentmere 400 at box speed and developed in Artemisianol. The Auto Up is quite a cool device. Each one is lens specific although mine is designated to…
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Nov. 15, 3 from the Archives
These are from Dec. 10 of last year and among the first of my film photos after a hiatus from taking pictures of about 30 years. Back then I primarily took photographs as a way of documenting my art work. In those days shooting slides of your work, Kodachrome in daylight and tungsten Ektachrome under…
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Nov. 7, And a Few Frames of the Less Upgraded Side of Midtown Reno,
Not that these are really seedy places, they’re just a little less cared for than some of the newer refurbished establishments. I think the photographic quality of some of these shots is quite a bit less than the others, that flat, glaring, hazy sky got the better of me on some of these. Like the…
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Nov. 2, Learning to See with a 50mm Serenar and Adox CMSII
Typically I don’t get on all that well with 50mm lenses, I find their field of view just too narrow and constraining, but yesterday I was thinking about why I took up Photography in the first place. Not so much to take nice, or even interesting photos, although that’s certainly a factor, but more to…
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Oct. 25, The Return of the Leica Ic: Buildings & Copex
I love my old 1949 Leica Ic, but to be honest it’s not half the camera that my Canon IVSb2 is, I mean that literally, as it’s missing the upper range finder section. Aside from the missing rangefinder/viewfinder, It’s just not as solid, well machined or precise as the Canon but I don’t love it…
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