I love when the sun casts shadows on the sheer curtains and does this

Also, another Vandyke attempt! This time I rod-coated with a 1/4in steel round bar and did the second coat with the brush, dry, which really helped get a consistent coat except for the sides where the paper curled and the solution pooled. Got great contrast off the Foma negatives though!

Something from the archive today! An Antares launch at Wallops Island, on the Yashica FX-1 and ML 50/1.7. This was on Kodak Gold I found in my dad’s desk, bought around 1997/98, and shot August 2023. He got me into aerospace, bringing me to airshows and launches since before I can remember, so I figured it was the perfect scene.

Miscellaneous eclipse multiple exposure

Contax RTS III, Tamron 60B & 01F Teleconverter + Contax-Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4, Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400

Partial eclipse on film, using some crinkled emergency blanket as a solar filter lol

Contax RTS III, Tamron 60B & O1F Teleconverter, Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400

While I’m still selling the Argus, I will miss it.

Argus C3, Fomapan 100 Classic

I adore HUGE photographic prints, especially stuff like large format contact prints or the early processes, but i think i love small paintings the same. For some reason i just have less love for huge paintings than i do for small paintings and huge prints. I also like small prints but only sometimes, not like the huge ones.

Double-exposure on respooled Ektachrome, i love birds

Cannot wait to project this but i need to get mounts and a projector

Contax RTS II, Contax-Zeiss Tele-Tessar 300mm f/4 AEG

The revised process works! I’m going to clear the rest of my backlog today.

So this morning I read a post about developing slide film in negative chemistry and getting a positive by using B&W developer, a fogging step, then a full ECN-2 process. I don’t have ECN-2 chems on hand, so I used my Bellini C-41 kit and a 2013 expired roll of E100G I shot on fall break.

I definitely needed more time in the first developer and colder light in the fogging step, but I got some images out of it!!

There’s also this gorgeous Miranda Sensorex II that I just don’t possess the skill or money to fix unfortunately

I just realized I never showed y’all the Argus! This is a 1959 Argus C3 Matchmatic, very likely owned by a Proctor H. Boggs in Columbus, OH. I got this from Goodwill for $26 a few years ago, but it’s taken a minute to get around to actually fully servicing it.

Another test of the rangefinder on the C3. This one was a little strange to focus because of the two sides of the feeder flower at slightly different distances, but I've generally learned now for critical focus to move my face around to see the finder from the right spot. It works well enough anyway, and I love the weirdly intense mechanical vignetting from the camera's Coated Cintar 50mm f/3.5 lens.

Argus C3 Matchmatic, Coated Cintar 50mm f/3.5, Fomapan 100

oh and! i fixed my Argus C3 Matchmatic (1959) rangefinder, so now I can do flashbulbs and stuff. I love this strange machine and it feels nothing at all, anyway here's a spent flashbulb in the dinged-in-air-transit original flashgun

Argus C3 Matchmatic, Coated Cintar 50mm f/3.5, Fomapan 100

I love these little guys. I need to buy more Fomapan.

Yashica FX-70, Tamron 60B, Fomapan 100

also, my first successful macro attempt on film!

Contax RTS III, Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4, Fuji Superia X-tra 400

launch!

Contax RTS III, Tamron 60B, Fuji Superia X-Tra 400