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Original 16 mm film is hard to get and very expensive, so I always cut the last piece of a film to 16 mm. Easy, and enough for 8 negs.
135 Gives 1 strip, 120 even easier,  gives three.

PS Unsharp Silberra? No - I just didn't focus, my fault.

The 2016 Summer Lecture: Macro

 On Flickr I have an album:
Macro with humble cameras
(Erwin Janssen Ruijs)

Mostly done with 1D, 2D and 3,5D push-ons, others with a tube, on really simple cameras.

I had a lot of fun with them, this summer.

HOWITSDONE: The push-on in my pocket, and a rope with knots at around 35 and 50cm on the camera. Nothing else, simple and quick. No tripod - I'm a sniper. 

The lenses: Agfa1 and 2 Dioptres, they fit on several Agfas: Click and Clack, Iso Rapid and Isola. And also on the 1936 KW Pilot! 

The Russian 2D fits on the Retina Xenon and the Colorsnap, the Shkolnik and the Smena; the 3,5 D is for the old Lubitel 2, but it also goes on the Kodak Duo 620! From the 8mm Quarz I use the F=240 (the 716 is hardly worth the trouble) on that strange T-43 with 39m screw.

With SLR's I simply move towards the subject untill in focus. At at least 5,6 so I can see something...

With the Russian 3.5 on the DUO620 the knots are 23,5 and 29,5 cm to front lens, rather strange.

Picture below: "a rópe?"

3D Stereo with the Iloca: keep the subject simple, because the 3D effect is superproportional, rather chaotic in nature, but also very nice. (Eyes relaxed on inf, concentrate on the ghost pic in the middle.)

More interesting stuff: Label TUTORIAL below.

Old fashioned macro

I put a 2-dioptre lens on my Смена, made a knot in a rope at 35 cm. (lens at 1.3 mtr) and went for a walk.
1/50 at F16, sunny day, expired KodakGold200 later in Digibase.
And look what I brought home!

This lens also fits the Школьник:

How is the weather?

 Never believe "the media", go look for yourself!
But no - they sàid, yesterday, that it would be horrible, so we'd better stay at home.
Not these girls, on "kingsday" in Nijmegen NL.
Youth vs Media: 1 - 0

Смена, Fomapan, Orwo A 03

T&N Хужир / Иркутск

(Left) 2014: my fifties Смена still going strong.

Kö Gourmet

Gourmet - das ist nicht nur Pommery und Hummer auf der Brücke, sondern auch Kaffee und Kuchen auf der Wiese.
Deswegen liebe ich Düsseldorf.
Und die sizilianer hatten wieder Süssigkeiten!

Смена, Fomapan in pyrogallic acid.

Автоспуск

The pneumatic self-release, the Tessar 500mm, Fomapan, Tri-X, HP5, Kodak MQ powders.
Going stròng!

Lamm Argentina

Bei "el Lazo" ist man nicht geizig, isst man vorzüglich ! Ich nahm noch einen "veterano" - und rannte dann wie ein Kind durch D'dorf mit meinem автоспуск um selfies zu machen. Spass pur, und bei dém Wetter !

Chinafest

Perfekt um 'n alten Ektar zu testen in meiner Смена.
Sehr farbenfroh, das feuchtwarme Wetter passend zum Thema.

E 1991 Ektar 25 in the fifties Smena, devd in tired Tetenal Colortec. Magenta in the sky, maybe I didn't shake the drum enough.

Ночь

1957 Смена, 1955 Проявитель

Jack Kerouac

Kermis in Nijmegen

AgfaOrtho in interbellum Darko, fifties Смена

(Hey, Blogger is "working" on my pictures; please don't)

Temperatur

Ein bisschen komisch: bei 22 grad plus, lange Unterhosen für 32 grad minus kaufen. Aber weil Sibirien kein ferner Traum mehr ist, sondern bevorstehende Realität...
Aber zuerst noch ein herbstliches PuddingHimbeerStarbucksMuffi mit Doppio.

E In Stalin's Volkswagen (my bakelite Смена) was 1987 AgfaOrtho, in the interbellum Darko (still going strong).

4Daagse (2)

"In mijn ouwe Opel had ik altijd een hamer bij me" zeg ik. Zegt de man van de SuperSnipe "startmotor, zeker." Bij de oldtimers in Wijchen.
In de binnenstad feest als altijd, en mooi weer dit keer. Prima.


E In the Smena my last 1973 FP3, but this time developed in fine grain Russian and as I expected: no fog, nice, crisp and clear. How did they do that!

This year...

...started dark and drizzling, but what the heck. The original Смена-cassettes scratched my foggy 1973 FP3 beyond repair but look how very reliably the interbellum George Murphy Eagle developer performs!
(And look below how that was made...)

Cathédrale engloutie

There's a lot of building going on in my home town, the big church seems to drown. We can only hope for the best, (knowing that in the past....)

# La Cathédrale Engloutie, famous prélude from Debussy ± 1910, maybe just as old as the developer I used.

Délicious!

Meanwhile the Eastman Developer is three weeks old and it still works fine, wow! The AgfaOrtho is over 25 years old, and the Смена more than 55, so the only fresh stuff this morning is the cappuccino at Délifrance. And their cookies! OMG they are good!
Et merci beaucoup, mes amis.