Ploë

 

Ploë, ofwel het lieflijke dorp Oploo.

Waar maar liefst twee molens, pal tegenover elkaar staan. Een heel prettige plek om een half uurtje te niksen, desnoods met een boek.

Ik had 1987 Свема 130 achter de 28mm Мир 10А in de Zenit 122

En bij het geweldig leuke avonturenpark staat ook nog de kleine waterpompmolen uit Chicago!

Klik op label MILLS voor meer molens uit de omgeving.

Ik kan met de "verbeterde" blogger niks meer, op Flickr - Erwin Janssen Ruys gaat dat allemaal een stuk beter. Dus...?

More Mills

 Ferrania Eura, Tmax100, Orwo A 03

Links het beekje waardoor Beek beroemd werd - helder waswater.

Hieronder de onlangs herbouwde Thornse Molen
(die vanmorgen al om half tien gasten ontving zo te zien...).

Molens

 Lang geleden, dus hoogste tijd om weer 'ns wat molens te kieken. Om te beginnen: Millie, piepklein in Grave.

1993 Тасма, 135мм Юпитер.

Hierboven: Don Quixote;
links: de Hellemolen.
Beide in Reek.

Свема 64, Кристалл, Мир-1 in Orwo A 03


More mills ? Label below

Imperiale S Pan

Imperiale S Pan, Made in Spain.
I think it's Ilford FP3 still going strong after 50 years in my 1949 Argoflex.
(And they used the name of a firm Ilford once bought.)

The mill: Schoonoord, in Alverna. (Label: Mills below, for more...)

The Lost Mill

I couldn't find this one on my own
(I didn't even know it existed)
but my guide Jeroen knew this
1745 built "Hernense Molen",
problem solved.
Чайка-2 in the sunday-rain,
on 1993 Тасма ФН64,
in seventies phen/hydr Реактив.

Beatrixmolen

Built around 1791 in Alphen, later moved to Winssen and now called "Beatrix".
I still had 30 cm FP3, it still didn't rain, so I took the Horizon 202 and made this one picture.
Why not.

Paalsche Mühle

Most Dutch mills have names, most German mills have not. This one, in Keeken, built 1810, however is called (maybe) the "Paalsche".

On the Fujica ST701 was the Fujinon 1.8/55mm, no filter.

(I know: a lot of mills, lately, but a man has got to have a hobby.)

National Mills Day 2013

 ...and in the afternoon (look below): different mill, different lens, very different weather. Same Y-filter, though. And yes, when you walk to the left you can make much nicer pictures, but that's not me.
It's the 1857 built "Zuidmolen" in Groesbeek NL, through the GP мир-1.

Molendag

Today is "National Mills Day" in the Netherlands, and as there are a lòt of mills in my neighbourhood I ehhhrm... went abroad, sort of.
Mehr, a tiny village am Niederrhein. Not far from the mill below.
In the hail-rain, with a Y-filter on the
Agfa Optima Solitar 40mm, accompanied by a very nice choir of
curlews, lapwings and other birds.

More Mill

Click on the label "Mills" below, and you'll understand my interest. They are beautiful, even on scratched 1973 FP3.
I took this one, 1854 built in Donsbrüggen BRD with the Canon 35-70 which cannot take filters, alas: the sky was só wild, this morning.

BTW "Holländermühle" - I never saw one like this in Holland...

Southern Cross

Very nice morning to visit some more mills. Maybe the tourists àre right: we are a land of mills and tulips.
The old one is "the Hope" 1850, originally for bark (leather-tanning), the modern one is (still) made by Southern Cross in Australia.

1973 FP3 in the 1978 Киев with 1978 Юпитер-12 with Orange-filter.

Old stuff

"De Haag", in Beuningen NL. Built in 1704.

In the 1936 KW Pilot was X.1947 Turapan, too curled even for my (interbellum?) "Trident"
In contemporary "Promicrol".

Mills in Tabloid

The 1926 BW&Co Tabloid developer does produce a stronger fog on the 1973 Ilford FP, but that doesn't affect the image, nor the weather. In the 1982 Agfa Optima.

The mill above: "Progress", in Oeffelt.
Left "de Hamse Molen" in Wanroy where I tasted the cherry pie, of course, from B. Maassen. Sweet!

Ensign 29 (4: after the war)

Shortly after the war photographic material was scarce, to say the least. But amateurs did want (need) to enjoy their hobby again, and the shop keepers had to earn a living. So old material was cut shorter (not 8 but 6 exposures), rolled again and sold under guarantee (Victor Latty, look below). In England import was restricted for a very long time, on the continent things were ehhhhrm different. The Americans didn't consider Leica worthwile, the shrewd Russians took Zeiss and Contax and converted them to "aus Jena" and Киев. The Americans wère in Bitterfeld, but left soon so the Russians also got Agfa Wolfen and made it ORWO. Kept working on that Agfa-colour system but that just wasn't the right way to go - C41 was better.

So Agfa Wolfen became Агфа Вольфен first, look at all the languages on the box - even "fabricacion alemana" (Spanish?) and selling, probably, old stock (6 iso 8) and, vèry weird: in this E29 size. For whom? I don't know of any Russian or German * 129 camera, and in the fifties? But I was very glad to be able to put them in my Ensign, compare them with contemporary HP3 ( Weston 125 ! became later ASA 400 of course) in the bakelite Soho (with that incredible depth-of-field, how did they manage thàt!)

*Yes, there was a very nice Welta Perle for 129 film around in the thirties! Welta became later VEB Pentacon...

(The mill left: "die Geismühle", look below. Right: "the Giant" in Ottersum.)

Ensign 29 (3: die Geismühle)

Für mich immer mit Urlaub verbunden: die Geismühle. Erster K&K-Pause bei jeder Italienfahrt. Und für Daumenfahrer der Start ins Unbekannte (wird das noch gemacht übrigens?)
Ich fahr' meistens nur vorbei, fünfzehn Minuten vor Oberkassel, U75 und Starbhhh - heute mit Putenschmaus feucht aus dem Kühlfach.
Aber ich brauche noch das Test-Vergleichsbild zum HP3 also steige ich grinsend aus, 1955 Agfa in der 1930 Ensign,
 ± 1 Sekunde.
Feriengenuss pur.

After the war

No, not Victor Lazlo, from Casablanca, or the once almost unbearably beautiful singer; Victor Latty, from Bristol.
No date, no information at all, in fact, but we have clues: the very old-fashioned spool (one round hole), and the 3/4 length. So it will be not very long after WWII, maybe even old stock. It's very thick also, almost like sheet film.
On the back paper: Kodak. So: probably "fourties" Verichrome.
In the red 1930 Brownie 2.

The mill: "Rest after Work", Ven-Zelderheide.

33° im Schatten

Ich hatte noch ´nen halben Meter Свема, in Kekerdom stand noch die Mühle "de Duffelt" und die Sonne schien, aber das reichte nicht für den fragwürdigen Film.

In der Canon FTbQL, mit New (naja: in 1983) 35-70mm

Und wieder dieses Свема-Rätsel: ein Negativ is okay, mehr oder weniger.

Mills around the house

Honestly: I didn't know that there were so many mills in my neighbourhood! Didn't pay enough attention. So this morning I spent a couple of hours, nice weather, good old Hasselblad with two lenses (and that's definitely not me!) and very foggy Свема64.

From top to bottom:

In the village Mill: the "Cornflower"

The "Heimolen" (Heather) in St. Hubert

The little one I like most: in Haps, the "Mariamolen"

"Bergzicht" (Mountainview) in Gassel

Another paint job...

Today I went back to Mondrian's mill (see below) because the wings would be painted. Well, that's a big job.
Yes, I know that the only black stuff they use can stand wind and rain, but wouldn't it be nice, Mondrian's basic colours on her?

The < 1992 Свема 64 did have some problems, couldn't cope with the contrast although born in a time full of contrasts (late Soviet).
On the 1977 Praktica were the 28mm Albinar (+Yfilter) and the wobbly 135mm Pentor, both eighties.

Pinhole Mondrian

Piet Mondriaan did like the Dutch mills, so I thought, today, a "homage"...
Well, in fact I forgot to turn over the sheet holder, of course.
But I like it, and more Dutch than this you can't get.

With the pinhole-Linhof (see below). And have a peek at the gallery of pinhole day, (you have to google that, my blog doesn't do links...) pinpics from over the whole world. (Hole world?)

This is the "Old Mill" in Wijchen.