It's been awhile since I've been here and thought I'd throw this one up today. I've been traveling without my MacBook Pro but instead using an iPad Pro and Lightroom Mobile for my work on the road. Finally figured out a way to use Flickr to get a link to post here from the iPad.
Found an envelope with four 6x6 negs in it at my dad's house in Monterey last week and scanned this image taken of me somewhere around 1960 while I was in nursery school. There was no marking on the film but it looked a lot like Tri-X in terms of grain structure and tonality. He shot this with a Rolleicord with a 75mm f/3.5 Xenar taking lens - one of the first cameras I used when I started getting the bug in the mid 1960's. So much better scanning the original neg than an old print.
^ Looking trough/over old family negatives and -pictures is like starting the big time-machine. I bet you (as a busy boy) haven't noticed the discrete "click" of the old Rolleicord. Thanks for sharing!
Freiheit, oder by Georg, auf Flickr
Agfa Clack with yellow-filter on and some very expired Ilford HP5plus in it, developed in Rodinal, scanned from a small darkroom-print
Heimat LXXI by Georg, auf Flickr
garden entrance on a rainy day - allotment gardens have a long history in Germany
old Fujica GL690 and 100/3.5, expired Neopan 400 at Ei 800/30 in Xtol 1+2
Heimat LXXII by Georg, auf Flickr
shadow-shopping on a sunny day
old Fujica GL690 and 100/3.5, expired Neopan 400 at Ei 800/30 in Xtol 1+2
A question. The title of this thread is "Post your recent film shots!", which I had understood as meaning photographs taken recently on film. I'm about to start scanning color and monochrome negatives I made in the seventies and eighties. Seeing the excellent picture on this page that Peter Figen's father took sometime around 1960 made me wonder whether or not it would be appropriate to post some of my old photographs in this thread?
Peter Figen wrote:
Found an envelope with four 6x6 negs in it at my dad's house in Monterey last week and scanned this image taken of me somewhere around 1960 while I was in nursery school. There was no marking on the film but it looked a lot like Tri-X in terms of grain structure and tonality. He shot this with a Rolleicord with a 75mm f/3.5 Xenar taking lens - one of the first cameras I used when I started getting the bug in the mid 1960's. So much better scanning the original neg than an old print.
This picture is amazing. Not because of anything technical specifically (although development is perfect), but as a window into the past.
genji wrote:
A question. The title of this thread is "Post your recent film shots!", which I had understood as meaning photographs taken recently on film. I'm about to start scanning color and monochrome negatives I made in the seventies and eighties. Seeing the excellent picture on this page that Peter Figen's father took sometime around 1960 made me wonder whether or not it would be appropriate to post some of my old photographs in this thread?
genji wrote:
A question. The title of this thread is "Post your recent film shots!", which I had understood as meaning photographs taken recently on film. I'm about to start scanning color and monochrome negatives I made in the seventies and eighties. Seeing the excellent picture on this page that Peter Figen's father took sometime around 1960 made me wonder whether or not it would be appropriate to post some of my old photographs in this thread?
"This picture is amazing. Not because of anything technical specifically (although development is perfect), but as a window into the past."
I kinda like it myself. I really like the light and the tonality. Maybe a bit awkward on the right side, but that's what he shot. I think that camera is still at his house somewhere and no doubt, because I'm the photographer in the family, any camera gear will go to me.
Peter Figen wrote:
"This picture is amazing. Not because of anything technical specifically (although development is perfect), but as a window into the past."
I kinda like it myself. I really like the light and the tonality. Maybe a bit awkward on the right side, but that's what he shot. I think that camera is still at his house somewhere and no doubt, because I'm the photographer in the family, any camera gear will go to me.
It is perhaps a little awkward but, if you crop the right side, you lose the little giraffe observing you and your playmate.
Peter Figen wrote:
"This picture is amazing. Not because of anything technical specifically (although development is perfect), but as a window into the past."
I kinda like it myself. I really like the light and the tonality. Maybe a bit awkward on the right side, but that's what he shot. I think that camera is still at his house somewhere and no doubt, because I'm the photographer in the family, any camera gear will go to me.
Peter,
I will join the chorus on this one. I like it for a couple of reasons. Certainly for the nostalgia, connection with your dad, but it really is a time stamp & a story. This is where film & a time period really come together.
Dan - Yeah. I agree. It's weird for me to look at these and go through them. I'm wondering how many more negs I'm going to find. It also reminds me that it was my dad who first showed me f/stops and shutter speeds and the relationship between them, and how to use a Weston Master III selenium cell light meter with a sensitivity scale that predated ASA and long long before ISO. There was also a cool feature on the Rollei where once you set the exposure, when you moved one of the levers, both shutter speed and aperture would move in unison maintaining the save EV while altering the shutter speed and aperture automatically. All a simple mechanical connection. That feature was the one that really helped cement the correlation in my mind. This all at about age seven or so.
BTW, that neg was at least half a stop under exposed, maybe more. Drum scanners are such wonderful things.
Peter Figen wrote:
Dan - Yeah. I agree. It's weird for me to look at these and go through them. I'm wondering how many more negs I'm going to find. It also reminds me that it was my dad who first showed me f/stops and shutter speeds and the relationship between them, and how to use a Weston Master III selenium cell light meter with a sensitivity scale that predated ASA and long long before ISO. There was also a cool feature on the Rollei where once you set the exposure, when you moved one of the levers, both shutter speed and aperture would move in unison maintaining the save EV while altering the shutter speed and aperture automatically. All a simple mechanical connection. That feature was the one that really helped cement the correlation in my mind. This all at about age seven or so.
BTW, that neg was at least half a stop under exposed, maybe more. Drum scanners are such wonderful things....Show more →
This camera, these pics.
I bought this Topcon RE Super, Spring of '69, in Vietnam
Through my abuse & age, it fell into disrepair for about 30-40 years.
Couldn't bear to get rid of it for sentimental reasons.
It fell out of a jeep @ 30mph, lens went over a gorge in Quatemala & was recovered & its been to Australia and many other adventures.
Last month got brave enough to take it apart & clean the sticky lens & shutter mechanism.
The light meter works electrically but way off. So I just carry an old Gossen
