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August 12, 2008
With help from the Czech Republic
Tried out a new film this time, FOMA 200, direct from the Czech Republic. I was expecting something bad like an HP5, but this film is one of the best I tested so far, great tones even with XTOL, great latitude and almost no grain. Just a shame I got only 20 of those. I alrady love them. Just hope the FOMA 400 will be as good.
Bessa R with 35/1.7 and 75/2.5, FOMA 200 in XTOL
“Be asocial here”
Musicians in town
Art installation, or kids playground
Pushing cycles
Tone test
Kids at the pool
Going shopping
Late night flea market
Looking for bargins
Kids for sale
Store closing down
Want shoes?
“No return possible”
Now photos from my uncle’s visit
Son of some friends my uncle invited over
My uncles 2nd daughter
and the 3th/4th (twins)
Again
My grandpa
Twins again
Eating
With my uncle
Another one
August 12, 2008
The Dark Side
Now something from the dark time, aka night. Or other related dark stuff. But still not happy with the results, have to give the TriX an extra 10% in XTOL the next time.
Bessa R with 35/1,7 and 75/2,5 on TriX, XTOL 1+1
Music first, rock concert in Feldkirchen
Hope at the medical games
Afraid of soul sucking cameras
Dinner time
Cooking corner
More eating
Want foooood?
Now change of scene, Werners Birthday in Vienna
August 12, 2008
For Testing Only
Nothing special here, I just did some further testing with the Zorki, shutter speeds, aperture and focus of the lens and the lens itself. Lots of the photos were the same, just checking how sensitive it is to stray light and flares. Sadly, its quite bad, but at least a handful of frames are fine. Also I found out that the ludicrously long film leader is quite sensitive to light too.
Zorki 1 with 50/2, APX 400 in XTOL
Front square, university
Dinner time
My grandpa, visiting my aunt
Sculptures in the city
Waiting for ice cream
Want a watch?
Front Door
Playing with water
August 12, 2008
When soccer was cool II
Another roll from the EM, on this one I know what was on it, since it was also the test roll for the Tokina 24/2.8, it looked like it has a slow aperture, but after some use, it seam to work nicely. At least the last frames of that showed it.
OM-2 with 24/2,8, APX 400 in XTOL
Beer in one hand, camera in the other
Croatian fans
More Croatian fans
Kwentin at the phone
Want a beer, mate?
Croatian fans after winning
German fans after loosing
Friendly man cleaning up
On serious mission
Police secure some garbage
Fans looking for a good outlook point
Austrian fans
More Austrian fans
Kids ignoring the game
Paper fan
Crazy Austrian fans
Stepping on dreams
August 12, 2008
When soccer was cool
Had no idea what was on that roll, I found it in my photo cabinet, thought it might be from the EM, but wasn’t sure about. I think it was taken with the Bessa, APX 400 in XTOL 1+1.
Tourists in town
Reading the EM-Newspaper
Politicans swinging flags
More tourists
People looking for EM tickets
German police is getting ready
Germany watching the game
Kids weren’t that interested anyway.
Some were
The police liked to watch too
Old fans
Young fans
Christian getting ready for the games
Fans from Germany (and Christian smiling)
More Fans
Kwentin with fan
Evil looking fans (hes ok)
June 11, 2008
EM: Roll 1
Here’s the first roll from the EM. Even when the light meter of the OM-2 broke down, I took this one, specially because of the 24mm I have for it. Works perfect in crowed areas. And it proofed itself as a great lens for such stuff. Think I will use it again for that.
OM-2 with 24/2,8, ORWO 125 in Rodinal 1+50
First signs of the high-price-fanzone
Police cars waiting
1 Day left
Upside down
Want a EM-Newspaper. Got 8 of them on my trip.
Some man handing out candy
The “2 crazy Bavarian fans”
More newspapers
MORE newspapers
Big screen and no signal
May 23, 2008
Pictures from Porec
Last roll I came do developed (and scan) was the roll I shoot during the short vacation in Porec. Funny thing, the first and the last roll both I developed and scanned turned out to be the best. So in future, I just allowed to scan and develop 2 rolls each time, so the first and last are ok 
Bessa R with 35/1,7 and 70/2,5 on APX 400 in XTOL 1+1
First frame was, oddly, still taken in Klagenfurt
Now we are in Porec. This was taken on a trip around the city.
Along the harbor in Porec, there were a lot of fishing boats with sometimes strange items up there.
Wonder how he wants to get on his ship now
Another ship there
He played for money there, but stopped soon as it started to rain.
Many many ships
Wonder why they always put the ropes up that way
That one looked like a pirate ship
Stairway to water
There were quite a few ships there
Always Coca Cola
This won’t go very far
Pull a string
More strings
Big and small strings
Soldier monument in Porec
Small streets of Vsar
Need a ticket?
Same street as above
Someone walking there
Small backyard
Another one
Narrow streets of Vsar
Operator of the church tower
Look over Vsar
and its roofs
more roofs
More of the narrow streets
Kids selling stuff the got out of the sea
And playing soccer
Some buildings didn’t looked as good as others
May 23, 2008
Flea market frames
Next film scanned, and even when it looked nice out of the machine, it somehow looked strange scanned. Around the perforation holes, there were shadows extending into the frame, look like it got agitated to fast. Shouldn’t be possible, since I use the developing processor that has a well controlled motion. But now that I think of it, it could be that I accidentally set it from 5 to 7. Have to check that further. Also, sadly pretty many of them were shaken. I have to be more carefully.
Bessa with 351,7 APX 100 in Rodinal 1+50
We start with flea market photos. Someone bought a lot.
And looking for small stuff
How to get a better view
Arranging stuff
Nothing for dogs
Fishing rods anyone?
“All treasures of the earth”
Their small trailer looked pretty usefull
Better carry it then someone steps on it
Dragging the loot home
Ride Fu-Long (baby panda in vienna)
Stoffen, met him in the city. Need to make a print to get more out of it.
May 23, 2008
Boulevard of Broken Frames
This post is now dedicated to 2 more or less lost film rolls that suffer from server developing problems. I know those images look pretty bad scanned, printed their quality would be much better, and since some of them have 1-2 nice frames, I might post some more once printing will work.
First roll, from what I only got a tiny amount of scan-able frames was somehow planned as an experiment and so not a big loose.
OM-2 with 50/1,4 or 24/2,8 with TriX400 pushed to 12.800 in Rodinal 1+50 for 51min stand developing. Few frames were ok, next test will be with 2 hour developing.
28 Days
In the city with Gervin
Grain is fine, sadly developing was way to weak. There were some more, but they were blured due shake, still got down the 1/15 quite often.
Now back to TMax 400, with the Besssa and developed in XTOL 1+1. Sadly, the XTOL stock must have aged and was way to weak. Together with the bad scanner, results are much more grainy then normal.
Beware. Someone pissing out the window
Photographer and model for a newspaper photo
Flowers on the way
Sky looked much better original
Some statues, on our trip with Gervin
Want a ice cream?
Taking the dog for a walk
Looking for CDs
University stuff
Preparations for a presentation
Photowalk, people meeting up
And waiting
Reading the assignment for the walk
