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My latest score

Gerald Figal — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:53:44 +0000

Six old Kodak shutters — all working fine– with various lenses. The whole lot for $40. Condition of them far exceed expectations; I was planning on reselling half to pay for the half I want to keep and use, but now I don’t know!

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Sara wins Tomato Fest Award!

Gerald Figal — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:37:44 +0000

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My just acquired Speed Graphic + accessories

Gerald Figal — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:02:58 +0000

Now I can be an old-fashioned press photographer!
The camera is in great condition and came with all the original flash equipment, 28 old-school flash bulbs, 14 film holders (most with FOUND FILM in them!), and a kickass cool carrying case. The engineering is fabulous; the mechanisms magical. Love at first sight. I intend to use this as a quasi-field camera (it does 4×5 negatives) for landscapes, urban decay, as well as for portraits and experimentation with lenses not intended for it (such as projection lenses, Petzval lenses, loupes, etc.). It also has a double extension bellows which allows for 1:1 macro shots really close-up!
It does have a bit of a learning curve given all of the flexible settings it has: shutter-mounted and focal plane shutters; rise, tilt, and lateral shift movements; rangefinder, optical viewfinder, wire frame viewer, ground glass AND focal scale focusing, etc. I’ve learned the basics on it within an hour and could go shoot some sheets now, but I want to process the found-film in the holders first–one of the dark slides in one holder had a tab labeled “Wedding”….

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Chosen as Scenic/Rural Area Photo of the Week in Flickr Group

Gerald Figal — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:24:39 +0000

You can see it among other fabulous shots here: http://goo.gl/04e7

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Cold War, 1962

Gerald Figal — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:49:03 +0000

This is not, of course a missile taking off with me burnng up in the exhaust. Rather, it a full-size Cold War missile that stands in front of the Air Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (a state full of missile and radar sites).
Taken with homemade pinhole (made from empty iPhone 3GS box) and Fuji Acros 100 120 film, developed in Caffenol (8-5-1 in 500ml). There was an ever so slight coffee cast on the underdeveloped negative, but I toned it in Lightroom 3. This is a truly bizarre image. Underexposed/underdeveloped and seemingly fog with the coffee developer. I can’t make out the negative well enough to see what was going on with the flare on the edges — I think it happened while scanning the thin negative. I decided to go with it since it looked like it was blasting off. I applied a graduated orange-yellow mask to the flare from the bottom to about half way up. Originally the flaring reached the top, but I applied a dark mask from the top to about 1/3 down so that the top would look more like distant outer space. Or something like that….

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