Hagwood
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And now for something completely different...
Some recent shots from around Beacon, NY... made with a circa-1963 Olympus Pen F half-frame 35mm FILM camera. I've had this camera in the collection for years, but it had overexposure problems (the auto-diaphragm was slow to close), and I only just got it repaired. Good old Tri-X developed in D-76, then scanned the negs at 2400 dpi and did minor cropping and tweaking:
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The camera itself is a masterpiece of midcentury design, a tiny SLR that takes interchangeable lenses (these were shot with the 38mm normal lens, equivalent to a 55mm on a standard 35mm camera). It gets two vertical 18x24mm negatives in place of each standard horizontal 35mm neg, so I got 53 shots on a 24-exposure roll... and with today's films, there's plenty of resolution and detail in the smaller negatives. It's a shame that half-frame 35mm is a barely recalled format nowadays, I love this little manual camera!
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Ragwort? That isn't one of those Harry Potter things, is it?
Very nice... what are the glowing sparkles in the water? bioluminescent Creatures or reflection of stars?Somewhere Greece
Haha. I was realizing it was a pool and not ocean after I commented. Still beautiful photo.Thank you very much!
I fear the lights are way less natural, these were just some LEDs on the ground of the pool.
Cheers
Turnip