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Am 6.1.2021 um 18:31 schrieb Ouroboros:

The film cameras I originally bought new and still use regularly (Nikon, Fuji, Hasselblad, Leica MP and Yashica T5) are all worth more on the used market than I bought them for. 
Every single digital camera I have ever bought new (I have bought 20+ new digital cameras since 1999 for my work) has depreciated and in every case I’ve sold them on for far less than I paid for them. This is an irreversible fact of digital photography, 

None of this is relevant, though.  I prefer using film and that is the crux of it.

 Covid -19 has severely impacted my business (along with every other professional wedding, portrait and event photographer I know).  One positive outcome is that I have had the time to rethink my workflow for when things pick up again.  Step one in 2020 was to sell all of my digital cameras except 2.  Step two was to buy what is probably the very last unused Hasselblad 503cw body in existence ( I personally know the history of this camera body) as a partner to my existing 503cw, which I have owned from new (I need two Hasselblad bodies for my wedding and portrait photography).  I have also added three more Zeiss lenses to my Hasselblad inventory and there more  A12 backs.  
 

I have created a separate price structure for traditional wedding photography with film and medium format cameras on my wedding photography website.  

Since I added this as an option from November 2020, I have taken 4 confirmed wedding bookings for 2022 from couples who want me to photograph their weddings with film rather than with digital cameras.

Sometimes, it isn’t just photographers who prefer the aesthetics of film.

Steve, great website and a lot of interesting information, even for an amateur like me. I'm impressed with both the  wedding photography and the great landscape photos.  Congrats, and I hope the situation will improve for you soon. 

btw: Just wrote an email to Jürgen if he had an Isolette. Which -in the version 1- was my first camera I got when I was twelve. Have to look for the negatives. Perhaps some of them survived the long march. 

Am 6.1.2021 um 22:08 schrieb philipus:

A few years ago when I travelled a lot for work I started a project with the working title "Where I have slept". The idea was to shoot the bed in the hotel room the next day before the diligent hotel staff had got their hands on it. This is one of those photos. Honestly I'm not sure if I'll do anything with this, but it is an interesting challenge, at least to a small mind like mine, to try to capture an unmade bed.


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I´m torn between admiration and a slight alarm. @Ernest seems to receive the same vibes: crime scene or memories of bliss and joy ?  I feel the urge to get  a torch and look under the bed which is tellingly dark in this photo... 

 

Am 7.1.2021 um 09:38 schrieb Xícara de Café:

I like the coolness of the blue and I think it's an idea worth pursuing. Tracey Emin's unmade bed sold for well over two million pounds! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed

XÌcara, what made Emin´s bed so famous was the stuff lying around the bed... 😇.  Let´s wish Tracey well, she seems to be in deep trouble. 

vor 19 Stunden schrieb Bo-Sixten:

Dusty oldies. Hasselblad diaries. Gotland, Sweden 1982. Hasselblad SWC, Kodak Plus X.

 

 

Great photo, Bo. The SWC is a challenge sometimes, but rewarding when mastered-as you show.

vor 18 Stunden schrieb Charles Morgan:

Forder Viaduct with Trematon Castle behind. Hasselblad 500C/M, Sonnar 150mm, Ilford Delta 400 in FX39 1:9

 

Among the beauties of this thread is : you get around, with seasoned and excellent photographers being your guide. Thank you, Charles ! Nice to see  England and of course the other countries of the union through the eyes of the natives.. 

vor 16 Stunden schrieb oldwino:

Peaceful at the Lake.

Leica II / Summar 50/2 coated / Delta 100 / Xtol

Straight into the Sun - with a Summar!

Sure, the reflections are  blown, but for me this is just what the scene makes impressive. Blinded by the light on a sunny day at the lake... Great photo. 

vor 14 Stunden schrieb Ernest:

Scalene
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Rog, intriguing. The balancing of the upper green plane on the edge of the light blue support... a bit out of balance though, but you show the direction by naming it "Scalene" . Who of us wouldn't know of the never ending work the "scaleni" do for us. Where is my Yoga mat ?  Well, you triggered me. Again.     Btw: could we call it Scalene, homage to Jawlensky ? 

vor 14 Stunden schrieb fotomas:

M6, 35 CronASPH1, Silvermax, Caffenol

fotomas, great scene , well seen and well captured ! 

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The bar and restaurant of the "Funkhaus" hold a very central place in the cultural life of Cologne. The building dates back to the early fifties of last century. The decoration and the furniture are original or restored fifties.   There is a small chapter about the history https://www.funkhaus-koeln.de/index_en.html#geschichte

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I like that 50ies and 60ies canteens…
I'm still annoyed today that I didn't have shot any photos in the canteen of the "Der Spiegel" as i have been there for some days.
Now its gone an another sterile building has took its place…
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel-Kantine#/media/Datei:Spiegel-Kantine,_Hamburg_(2006).jpg

Perhaps i should go to "Daniel Wischer" in Hamburg-Germany, Steinstraße 15a before they do some renovation or demolition work…
It is an old fishrestaurant and it still looks exactly like in 1970 when my grandmother and I ate backfish there every now and then…
Every Hamburg visitor should have a snack there when Corona is over. At the moment only take away food.
Standard Dish is "Backfisch und Fassbrause"
http://www.danielwischer.de/de/fischrestaurant-steintrasse/
 

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IIIf, Summicron 5cm 1:2 collapsible, Fomapan 100 @ 64, PMK 1:2:100 10' 24°C.

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37 minutes ago, Kl@usW. said:

Among the beauties of this thread is : you get around, with seasoned and excellent photographers being your guide. Thank you, Charles ! Nice to see  England and of course the other countries of the union through the eyes of the natives.. 

 

Thank you Kl@usW - your comments are much appreciated. It is one of the joys of moving location that I have had the chance to explore with a camera. I'm hoping to do a lot more sometime safer. For the time being, some of the back catalogue!

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17 minutes ago, verwackelt said:

I like that 50ies and 60ies canteens…
I'm still annoyed today that I didn't have shot any photos in the canteen of the "Der Spiegel" as i have been there for some days.
Now its gone an another sterile building has took its place…
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel-Kantine#/media/Datei:Spiegel-Kantine,_Hamburg_(2006).jpg

Perhaps i should go to "Daniel Wischer" in Hamburg-Germany, Steinstraße 15a before they do some renovation or demolition work…
It is an old fishrestaurant and it still looks exactly like in 1970 when my grandmother and I ate backfish there every now and then…
Every Hamburg visitor should have a snack there when Corona is over. At the moment only take away food.
Standard Dish is "Backfisch und Fassbrause"
http://www.danielwischer.de/de/fischrestaurant-steintrasse/
 

So far my sole visit to Hamburg was an overnight stay but at some point I wish to explore far more and that certainly looks like a good traditional place to eat. Although googling Backfisch (wondering if it was a particular species) initially I thought I must have mistyped when the answer came back as teenage girl!

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vor 22 Minuten schrieb verwackelt:

I like that 50ies and 60ies canteens…
I'm still annoyed today that I didn't have shot any photos in the canteen of the "Der Spiegel" as i have been there for some days.
Now its gone an another sterile building has took its place…
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel-Kantine#/media/Datei:Spiegel-Kantine,_Hamburg_(2006).jpg

Perhaps i should go to "Daniel Wischer" in Hamburg-Germany, Steinstraße 15a before they do some renovation or demolition work…
It is an old fishrestaurant and it still looks exactly like in 1970 when my grandmother and I ate backfish there every now and then…
Every Hamburg visitor should have a snack there when Corona is over. At the moment only take away food.
Standard Dish is "Backfisch und Fassbrause"
http://www.danielwischer.de/de/fischrestaurant-steintrasse/
 

Yes, the "Spiegel-Kantine" is legendary. Imagine having lunch in that psychedelic atmosphere....     And thank you for the hint to Daniel Wischer. Next time I'm there, it will be my place. Another place i love to visit when in HH, is the Restaurant  of the Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe, 5 min from the station. Nice doors too...

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vor 9 Minuten schrieb Charles Morgan:

So far my sole visit to Hamburg was an overnight stay but at some point I wish to explore far more and that certainly looks like a good traditional place to eat. Although googling Backfisch (wondering if it was a particular species) initially I thought I must have mistyped when the answer came back as teenage girl!

Backfisch is fried fish in a kind of breadcrumb coating--more or less the same as your fish in fish´n chips.  why it also became  ( outdated, fifties, think pettycoats) a name for a female teenager, not just of age, escapes me.  A lot of possible explanation come to my mind, none of which I would like to detail here... 😊

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vor 21 Minuten schrieb Charles Morgan:

initially I thought I must have mistyped when the answer came back as teenage girl!

Yes, i should better write the english word for Backfisch as meant as a kind of friedfish with batter.
Backfisch meaning a teenage girl is so outdated that almost no young person in Germany knows that meaning anymore…

 

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Lazy shooting.   [T-Max 400]

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Pit stop.    ...can't remember the film. This is in India.

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Ashes to ashes. Hasselblad diaries. Hasselblad, 80mm, Tri-X.

 

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vor 1 Stunde schrieb Bo-Sixten:

Ashes to ashes. Hasselblad diaries. Hasselblad, 80mm, Tri-X.

 

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Beautiful, peaceful and sad picture…

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Old church of San Mauro in Sannicola. I didn't go all the way up - Leica M3, Summicron 50, Eastman Double-X @ 400

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Sir Walter Raleigh lurking near the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, just one of any number of dead white men rendered in bronze and spread around the streets of London.

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Sir Walter Raleigh lurking near the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, just one of any number of dead white men rendered in bronze and spread around the streets of London.

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Somewhat-cropped image of the Poplar Rowing Club and Greenwich Foot Tunnel seen from the Old Royal Naval College back in the time when the pointy building was tallest in Docklands.

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Just next door to the Old Royal Naval College:  Cutty Sark.  They don't make ships like that any more.

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