Shadows and Highlights

With help from the Czech Republic

geek7 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:34:12 +0000

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

The Dark Side

geek7 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:17:48 +0000

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

For Testing Only

geek7 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:02:42 +0000

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

When soccer was cool II

geek7 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:54:06 +0000

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

When soccer was cool

geek7 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:41:46 +0000

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)

EM: Roll 1

geek7 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:18:34 +0000

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

Pictures from Porec

geek7 — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:30:53 +0000

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

Flea market frames

geek7 — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:06:07 +0000

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.

Boulevard of Broken Frames

geek7 — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:39:28 +0000

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

Old Stuff – New Photos

geek7 — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:44:24 +0000

The Zorki and the Lens was made around 1940, so that part was over 60 years old. The light meter I used was made during the 70s, so that’s another 30-40 years. Newest film was the Orwo 125, being an Ilford Fp4 (no +), it was also fairly old, introduced 1968. Same can be said about the developer, Rodinal isn’t the newest formula on the market. But I can say I’m pleased with the results. Its just fun to use it. Just have to check focusing more often with that setup.

All photos Zorki 1 with 50/2 on Orwo 125 in Rodinal 1+50

Starting the roll with photos at the university, ISo 100 wasn’t enough for indoor shots

Martin in the sunset bar

Now we come to the Photowalk in the Botanic Garden

Getting he tripod out

We waited quite long for the rest

Poor tripod waiting for a camera

Georg showing up

Most people are here now

We waited still a bit longer, and joked around in the meantime.

Maybe not the most interesting perspective, but love the tones.

Now the after walk party.

The Zorki attracted quite a lot of views.

Not fair against the Zorki

Some people even took photos of it.

Praying for good photos

That was the photowalk, now other city photos.

Met him while I was taking photos for virtual-klagenfurt.at

He was pretty funny and always posed for me.

Good thing about walking thru the city, you met a lot of interesting people.

This was some sort of art installation for the EM.