Then and now 16: fast ORTHO film

Great weather, so I put my only 1957 Ortho Selochrome in the HB, speed group E and Weston 80. Well, after 53+ years maybe Weston 24.
After lamb and sljivovica I (try to) concentrate on red flowers, yellow trees, to see that ortho-effect.
IF: because at home I discover that the back paper is stuck to the film. S***. I decide to develop the film - and when wet the paper can be peeled off, leaving the back a bit rough, but who cares. I have images! Wow! (Look at flickr for the nasty details.)

(In my youth the Strassenbahn was yellow - the right colour. Nowadays they are white/red. Or worse.)

the Last-Of-The-Summer-Wine Lecture

Nooo - only joking! But Tony Barbaro inspired me to think about (original) lens hoods. Being a contre-jour lover, hoods are important to me, so let's see what I've got.

I do not hunt for the original (on the Retina you see a simple click-on) but I rather like the Agfa one (+ plastic case) Beb gave me. And Jacqueline's Zeiss-Ikon: a click-IN, the only one I know. Then there is that rather art-deco Enna hood for the Sandmar, and her (only 8 mm, what's the use) sister on the Robin. The multi-purpose hood-cover-case on the Giel's Werra.

The picture of the Leica über-hood I stole from gifthorseuk.

I don't have the Rolleiflex (John?!), Contax, or Voigtländer Sonnenschutz - and for the Wörsching-Gegenlichtblende, well I wouldnt die, but I would do a lot!

Then and now 15: Trees

The old postcards are always so spacious, with broad views. Nowadays, in Nijmegen, there is always a tree in your way. Healthy, yes, good for us and mother Earth, but I am more a fieldsman (howzàt?)

Then and now 14: Quack on Kodak XX

Well, you can imagine we do not call this monument "Marie Adolf Fountain".

***Yes, thàt's how we call it, but we also say: the Quack monument, after the man who paid for it.


The thing disappeared (!) after the war, was found back a few years ago and after a little fight it is back on the old site.
I rather like it.

I put the 1927 column with the 1928 Brownie on 116 Kodak Super-XX Tropical 1951 (Look on flickr how I did that, the stripes are a scanning problem...)

Then and now 13: the Bridge

In the mid-sixties I spent my holidays in Oberkassel. And every day we (my nephew and I) walked the bridge or, sometimes, took the Strassenbahn, to have a milk-shake (very modern!) at the Kaufhof. One day we didn't have enough money, so we asked for apple-juice. The lady looked at us, said that boys our age should drink milk - and gave us our shakes!
We spent hours at the escalator, I remember now.
In 1976 they built the new bridge, and shove it in place of the old one.
In the sixties there were still "Radschläger" (bottom picture 1910?), they are extinct now, but you can buy them. In chocolate.

PS - I didn't climb the planetarium today - the wind almost blew me of the lower terrace already!

Chopin

At 13.10 in the (windy) sunshine: Nocturne Op.9 Nr.2

Canon nFD 35-70 on RolleiRockhard at ±40 ISO 8 min. Rodinal

Then and now 12: addicted to light

1970 I was the last organist in our parish church: they literally took the old organ apart while I was playing (there is an electronic organ now).
You had to climb the stairs to the old organ in the dark, rather scary in the winter and therefore the organists entered the church always using strong language...
Today "Museumday" there was a lamp! For the first time I could see how easy the stairs are.

± 15 Years later I was also the last to play in my old school chapel, demolished now, and a few years later in the conventual church, now Byzantine. The last of the Mohicans.

HB Distagon 60mm on HP5