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Praktica LTL3

absolute0 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:36:39 +0000

The Praktica LTL3 is a manual 135mm film SLR manafactured by the East German VEB Pentacon in the 1970′s. It has a focal plane metal blade shutter and a TTL (through the lens) exposure metering.

It uses the M42 lens mount. My Praktica, in particular, came with a Pentacon 1.8/50mm lens.

The picture of the camera below was taken by the previous owner.

Here are some images I took at the Loboc Church, the second oldest church in Bohol. These were shot on Kodak Gold 100.

More can be found here.

Up close with the Holga

absolute0 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:46:49 +0000

The minimum focus distance of the Holga is said to be about three feet. It is possible, however, to get closer than that with a magnifying glass or a diopter. The diopter, specifically, are lenses used to assist in close-up and macro photography. They magnify the subject and allow objects to be brought into focus.

I used a +10 diopter with my Holga. However, only one shot turned out good. The rest were too blurry since my estimated focus distance was wrong.

Shot on Kodak Portra 400VC.

Blanc dans noir II

absolute0 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:33:22 +0000

Taken with a Holga 120 GCFN on Ilford Delta 3200, developed in Xtol (according to the lab).

Yashica Electro 35 GSN & Lucky Super New 200

absolute0 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:03 +0000

I realized that my Yashica has a problem with focusing to infinity. Not that it bothers me. I’m having fun with shallow depth of field.

More can be found here.

Holga 120 GCFN & expired Fujichrome Astia 100F

absolute0 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:21:08 +0000

Like Velvia, crosprocessed Astia has a reddish color shift but more on the magenta side of the spectrum.

More can be found here.

Blanc dans noir

absolute0 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:43:38 +0000

Taken with a Holga 120 GCFN on Ilford Delta 3200, developed in Xtol (according to the lab). I love the rich grain.

Yashica Electro 35 GSN & expired Konica Chrome Centuria 200

absolute0 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:19:12 +0000

Continued to use my Yashica without a battery. I am getting the hang of the sunny f/16 rule which states that on a bright, sunny day, the correct exposure is f/16 at the shutter speed nearest to the reciprocal of the film speed. So if the film has ASA 100 then the shutter speed must be 1/125 sec.

Used an expired Konica Chrome Centuria 200 for these pictures. The result is very grainy. I don’t know if this is the result of the film being crossprocessed or the result of the film being expired.

More can be found here.

Holga 120 GCFN & Kodak Ektachrome E100G Pt. II

absolute0 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:59:37 +0000

I think I am falling in love with Kodak Ektachrome G. I realize that when it’s cross-processed, it makes the blues more vivid (compared to Fuji Provia where the blues shift towards cyan), although at noon, the skies tends to have a dull hue.

More pictures can be found here.

Yashica Electro 35 GSN test shots

absolute0 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:14:57 +0000

The Yashica Electro 35 GSN is a rangefinder camera from the early 1970′s, famous for its super fast f/1.7 45mm Color-Yashinon DX lens and sharp focusing.

It is (supposedly) an aperture-priority camera, which means that you select an aperture, in the case of the GSN, from f/1.7 to f/16, and it will automatically select the appropriate shutter speed, from 1/500th of a second to 30 seconds.

I wrote “supposedly” because in my case, there seems to be a problem with my battery or with the camera’s electronics, and without power, the GSN operates at a fixed shutter speed of 1/500th of a second. Without power, I also can’t take advantage of the GSN’s built-in meter, which warns the user if the picture will be over/under-exposed.

With a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, I am limited to taking pictures in bright conditions. I used my digital camera to give me an idea on the exposure, given a particular aperture and the fixed shutter speed. My digital camera, however, only has an aperture range from f/2.6 to f/8, so beyond that, I have to estimate, but the rule, as I have read somewhere, is that when one moves an f-stop, one either doubles or halves the exposure. I also thought of bracketing my shots, so given the f-stop I selected, I took the same shots at an f-stop above and below it. Of course, there are conditions where even using f/1.7 (largest possible opening to allow light) at 1/500th of a second won’t be enough.

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I went to IT Park last Saturday to take test shots with the camera, which I loaded with DNP Centuria. A security guard approached me and told me that one needs a permit to take pictures at IT Park. It wasn’t the first time though that I took pictures there and in those times, I was in plain sight of the security guards but none of them told me about it. So I left and took pictures somewhere else then I went to a photo-lab to have the pictures developed. It turned out that all of the frames were blank. I, being a n00b, didn’t load the film properly so I was advancing the film but it actually wasn’t moving forward. Ironic, isn’t it.

Anyhow, the owner of the photo-lab gave me an expired roll of Fuji Superia. Here are the shots from that roll:

More can be found here.

Holga 120 GCFN & Kodak Ektachrome E100G

absolute0 — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:35:46 +0000

Kodak Ektachrome G, when cross-processed, seems to provide only a subtle color shift, compared to Fuji Provia or Fuji Velvia. The results somehow remind me of Kodak Portra (which is a negative film) but is more saturated.

According to Wikipedia, old National Geographic magazines used Ektachrome.

More pictures can be found here.