Justfolk's photos with the keyword: Halbformat

This is where I used to work and I needed to look at some old files I'd left behind. S was working when I came in but she kindly posed for me with my 2007-expired film and my pre-1960 camera. She told me later it captured her Monday-morning feeling. Olympus Pen D3 + Fuji 1600 film.

At a pre-wedding party I discovered these two women were good friends because their husbands had been good friends since they started school together. In turn, the husbands were good friends of my nephew, whose wedding was two days later. This was last summer and I finally got the film developed today, over five months later. That's not so long when you consider the film expired in 2007. Fuji 1600 film in Olympus Pen D3 half-frame camera.

I finally had this roll of Fuji Superia 1600 developed this week and am well pleased with the shots on it. I shot most of it in June and July, like these of S visiting my office and regaling me with stories. (S, btw, is a good photographer but she doesn't want to move to Flickr from her comfortable position on that site for square shots beginning with the letter I.) The 1600 film was outdated in April 2007. I shot it in my Konica Eye 2, one of the half-frame cameras made in the 1960s for people who wanted to be, uhhh, economical with their film. "Cheap" is what people who thought they were serious photographers called them. I think half-frame cameras are great. I scanned the two images on the left together but, although the third was adjacent on the negative, I had already cut the strips between #2 and #3. So I had to bring them back together in PSP and in so doing realised I had scanned with different exposures. Thus I had to do some colour correction to make the three images as similar as they are on the negatives.

These are four adjacent frames from the roll of Life Brand 100-speed film which expired in the 1980s and which I shot in the "broken" half-frame Ricoh Caddy at about ISO 50. I should probably have shot it at 12 or 25 -- the negatives are *very* thin making for difficult matters in scanning. But I did some colour-channel & spotting jiggery-pokery and came up with these scenes of the lane known as Symes's Bridge (or just Symes Bridge, as most people pronounce it). The Ricoh Caddy was sold to me very cheaply as it was broken. But once I added a shutter-release cable, it seemed most often to work. It has a selenium meter and, based on ISO 50, I generally followed its instructions for exposures.