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Very happy about this one, the photo too This is a chemically reversed paper negative, on 18×24 cm @ilfordphoto MGRC paper.

this in a focus in a relative way – in the sense that the actual focus is in front of the tree but since there’s nothing there it all works out. hand-wavey quick large format photography is really under-explored as a process i say quick but it takes like…

cropped because i couldn’t get close enough. the black streak to the right is because i have added a camera-internal curtain around the lens that is only being held on by hopes and dreams and a little bit of tape, and that came loose. no part of this came…

it’s even in focus, surprisingly!

through rome with a 1930s Welta Perfekta. nice city but they really need to rebuild their stadium, it’s falling apart.

with a 1930s Welta Perfekta, and someone Perfekta

the statues there were all sort of caricatures but this one was the best one. i don’t know who that is. he liked tight pants i guess.

Pompeii is in surprisingly good condition overall.

this sounds weird but the crater of mount vesuvius is much larger than i thought, somehow. just massive. also we visited on the same day the etna broke out, so it was appreciated that vesuvius had a much quieter week than that.

Positano on the italian Amalfi Coast.

with a 1930s Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6×9, on Foma 200.

with a 1932 Rolleiflex Old Standard, on Foma 200

With a piece of 80s plastic made in the USSR called a Lomo Smena Symbol – which is somehow more enjoyable to use than it has any right to.

Zeiss Ikon Contax D with a 135 f2.8 Mamyia/Sekor lens, on Foma 200

in front of an 80s panasonic video camera, turned to portrait orientation. i’m not sure whether i like the rendering more or the fact that i can choose out of 7000 frames with it. that would get rather expensive on medium format film.

it handles backlight very badly, i.e. very well

the abuse of video cameras to take still pictures will continue until morale improves, or until i get bored of it.

steady hands are hard to come by with a ~1930s Zeiss Ikon Ikonta, 6×4.5 medium format, on foma 200

with a 1940s Mimosa II, on Foma 200.

576 lines should be enough for anyone.