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7 hours ago, frame-it said:

:)

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice, Is also great

And would suffice.

Hard to be adverse to search lyrical verse!

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Not really the current topic, but getting back to film, I have just replaced the winder for bulk film I used many years ago.  This time I found the genuine Leitz version on eBay, and it brings back many happy memories of the sixties and seventies.  For those of you who have never known these delights. when the first Leicas were released in the nineteen twenties the only film available for them was bulk cine film, and you either loaded it into the camera in the darkroom or more likely bought a metal reloadable cassette, solid brass, and made so that when the base plate of the Leica was locked, it opened a wide slit so the film came out freely.  Similarly when the baseplate was removed it locked the cassette, which then could be removed and unloaded for processing in the darkroom.  Even when Kodak spoiled things things buy buying Retina, who invented with Kodak the 135 cassette we still use, the brass cassette retained advantages.  Bulk film was cheaper and film passed freely and not through a light trap that sometimes scratched the emulsion. When the M series appeared, the cassettes remained, slighly redesigned but still backwards compatible.  Many rolls of Tri-X and FP4 I loaded.

So here I am again, once more loading metal cassettes.  The Leica winder has a sprung arm and rollers that run over the perforations, to prevent the film unwinding;  thirty-one rotations it needs for 36 exposures, and I am now using a 17 meter roll of Ilford Delta 400. Perhaps I am fooling myself but the lovely wind-on sensation of my M3 and M2 seems even smoother now that the film runs freely within the camera.  In the middle of the production run of M6s Leitz, cost cutting as usual, simplified the base-plate so it would no longer open metal cassettes, However the cassettes and winder will last as long as the camera does - forever.

Geoffrey Rivett ARPS

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9 hours ago, Keith (M) said:

1) The Winterbourne (nascent River Kennet) as it flows around Avebury, with Silbury Hill in the background.
2) Curvatures. Part of the garden at the NT's Avebury Manor.

Both with Hasselblad 503CX, Planar 80mm CF T*, Tri-X, Ilfosol 3.

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The first photograph is stunning!

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14 minutes ago, atournas said:

The first photograph is stunning!

Thank you for that!  A case of right time, right place.  :)  I live ten miles away from Avebury and knew that the stream (actually a 'winterbourne') would be filled to the brim and thus offer a good photographic opportunity.

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You might wonder if we are taking the open plan concept much too far:

Fear not - the wall of that washroom is just being moved to make room for a door into the extension.

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35 minutes ago, chrism said:

You might wonder if we are taking the open plan concept much too far:

Fear not - the wall of that washroom is just being moved to make room for a door into the extension.

Nothing like a bit of communal living, Chris. ;)

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4 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Shoebox #3

Cologne 2001

View from the "Museum Ludwig" to the Hohenzollernbrücke crossing the river Rhine. The building to the right is the Ludwig Museum. Peter Ludwig and his wife Irene collected Pop-Art from very early on and introduced it to Germany. In this museum you have the probably most important collection of PA in Germany. The single rail leading to the tower  on the left side is an installation by Israeli Dani Karavan, named Ma´alot. The tiled floor is actually the roof of the  Cologne Symphony Hall. The gothic cathedral is just behind you.  The guy on the horse in the background is the prussian king Wilhelm  II-on the fundaments of the bridge. In roman times here was the harbor of the "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium" -parts of it still visible a few meter away. 

The pigeon is probably oblivious of all this. 

 

Minox EL , FP4? 

Love the contrast, Klaus, as well as the effective use of negative space 👌

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22 minutes ago, A miller said:

A sunrise from the Dead Sea this past summer.  

Ektar 6x17 😍

Get me the GREEN tank! I need more OXYGEN. No, not a replay of Blue Velvet. It's just that this "verti-pano" takes my breath. Nature's complementary palette. This is getting weird with my GREEN tank and Ray Bans.

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17 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Get me the GREEN tank! I need more OXYGEN. No, not a replay of Blue Velvet. It's just that this "verti-pano" takes my breath. Nature's complementary palette. This is getting weird with my GREEN tank and Ray Bans.

 

1 minute ago, adan said:

Seriously well-seen and well-captured color gradation there! 👍

Thanks, Gentlemen.   (Rog, you are hilarious and in bad need of your own "reality show").

I had to hike down a mountain for about 15 minutes in the dark and set up and compose with barely any visibility in the ground glass.  And then it was a sunrise long exposure so that was basically my only photo for the sunrise.  I really wasn't sure it would come out good at all.  I used two ND grad filters in anticipation of the strong light in the horizon to graduate the effect as much as possible - pure luck if it did the trick.

Funniest part of that morning was that I overstayed my welcome and after a few hours of shooting all of the sink holes with the strong light at my back it started to get f$cking hot - I mean really hot.  I was tired (i woke at 3:30 to make the drive from Jerusalem) and thirsty (neglected to bring water with me) and very cranky.  And I waited until I had no more energy left in the tank to leave - and it wasn't until I left that I belated realized that I now had to trek 15 minutes UP the mountain in the scorching heat with my gear.  By the time I made it up I seriously thought that my arteries were going to explode.  I remember finding the closest place that sold water and buying 2 one liter bottles and pretty much swallowing them whole.  😳

I can't say that it was the most fruitful sunrise shoot but I think I learned the most life lessons and got the closest to God of any shoot!

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8 minutes ago, david strachan said:

You're funny Ernest...good reply.

It's a beaut picture.  I'm  a bit behind which camera for 6x17, Adam?

I love them all...😚

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Cheers, David - I appreciate that.  I used my Technorama 617siii, which is a 6x17 panorama camera with a 90mm Schnieder Super Angulon XL lens.

 

I honestly wish that I was able to get all of the sinkhole in my frame.  I actually did but then lost some as part of the process of leveling the scene in Lightroom 🤬

If I had known about the stitching, I would have used the rise and fall adjustment on my lens to take two exposures and then stitch them in Lightroom.  

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