Industrial Terrarium 02

Olympus Chrome Six
#kodakgold #120film

England; September 2023

Rounding out the roll. Two VTA trains at Mountain View, with a bit of a dramatic sky, and a cement bench at Sequoia High School, Redwood City (it's a nice campus).
#Voigtländer/#Voigtlander #120film #filmisnotdead #FilmPhotography #BellowsCamera

Only time I've ever taken film pics in my office. I wasn't invited to this party but I got nice pictures out of it.
#Voigtlander #120film #filmisnotdead #FilmPhotography #BellowsCamera

Some more #Voigtländer shots from around SF. If you walk around the City with a camera you're going to take a picture of a cable car sooner or later. This is at the Powell & Market turntable.
#Voigtlander #120film #filmisnotdead #FilmPhotography #BellowsCamera

The next batch of fresh-from-the-lab negatives are from a #Voigtländer
folding camera, which is definitely a step above my usual box cameras in quality.
These are from a day we walked from the 22nd St CalTrain station over Portrero Hill to the Roxie (I think that's when we saw Eraserhead).
#Voigtlander #120film #filmisnotdead #FilmPhotography #BellowsCamera #PotreroHill #Roxie #RoxieTheater

Here's a couple I took on the same outing, with my #Voigtländer bellows camera. (The light leak it had earlier seems to be fixed now; thanks to all my fedis who gave helpful advice on that).
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #120film #bnw #blackandwhite #mediumformat #BellowsCamera #Voigtlander #sfmuni

Just noticed these four pictures I took with the #Voigtländer #BellowsCamera have a consistent splotch in the lower left.
I wonder if there is a light leak in the bellows.
Or could some smudge on the lens cause this?
I see this consistently in the pictures towards the end of the roll, but not before that, so something happened. But it could either be a leak developing or something getting into the lens.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #believeinfilm #120film #mediumformat #Voigtlander #bnw #blackandwhite #SamTrans

A few pictures from the #Voigtländer. #BellowsCamera, This is in downtown #redwoodcity.
I've been thinking a bit about what the quality difference between box cameras and a "real" camera like this is. I think overall I get more *consistently* better results because exposure can be set to just what it needs to be. A Brownie can give you some damn nice pictures, but you get a lot of over- and underexposed ones too (although going by guesswork and intuition can be fun, and when you get good at that, you can pull out the camera and make a picture a lot quicker than with a real camera where 3 different things need to be scientifically set).
#filmphotography #filmisnotdead #120film #mediumformat #blackandwhite #bnw #Voigtlander

I've been wanting to take film pictures of my cats for a long time, but the old box cameras I've mostly been using focus at 10', so I couldn't really take proper portraits of them. I got a snap-on close-up lens for the #Duaflex, and with that, the focus is at 3', which is just about right. That's how I took the first two pictures. The second pair are from a #Voigtländer bellows camera, my first "respectable" #MediumFormat camera, which lets you focus and adjust speed and aperture.
You *can* make that kind of adjustments on box cameras, thought it's pretty primitive--though I kind of like that.
The Duaflex pictures were color-adjusted with #Irfanview (they are probably underexposed), the Voigtländer pictures didn't need anything.
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #mediumformat #120film #kodakduaflex #cats #catsofmastodon #Voigtlander #BellowsCamera

Attempting a bellows repair on my #Voigtlander.
Steps described in alt text.
I'm not sure how long liquid tape is supposed to take to set. I better just leave it like this til tomorrow. Then open and close the bellows a bunch of times to make sure it's really fixed.
#BellowsCamera #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #120film

The Kodak Six-20 and a couple photos I took with it. The lens is pretty good for a 90 year old camera #kodaksixtwenty #bellowscamera #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #kodak #steptoeedwall