Minox B - one step further

With a splitter (16mm>N8) you also can refill Minox cassettes.

Because normal film is thinner than original Minox/Agfa, transport twice, to prevent overlapping.

Gennep: Kosmo film

Cuijk: Fujicolor 200

(See post below for more info, or click Tutorial)

В Киеве

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 2017 Christmas Lecture

 STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
 - and there's no
"lecture",
 just use your eyes.

The big man, obviously loved,

the old woman,
enjoying Chopins second nocturne.

Eternal friendship













Digital kids

Düsseldorf in the sixties






And Düsseldorf now.

The 2016 Christmas Lecture

This year nothing "technical"- just some pictures to show you what I like in analogue photography.

Made with some 1964 Russian print paper in de contemporary Linhof Technika.
Simple, quiet.

Nice gamut, nice atmosphere, very "summery"
This is Тасма ФН 32 behind the lovely soft МИР-10А.

Dutch landscape.
Vèry Dutch.
Orange filter on the Sigma.

I lòve the pastel colours.
KodakGOLD200 in Digibase (hùh?).
And again the Mir 10A - I àm a WA-man.

Here, again, I love the "old" colours and, I think, the "Dutch" atmosphere.

 Above: yes, sometimes I dó some Picasa!

Left: but I'm really addicted to darkroom challenges...

Above: Russia
(Velikij Novgorod).
I love Russia. Bought really nice socks in this little park.


Left: I did some simple macro, this summer. And I like this picturesque picture.
Fujicolor in the Bantam Colorsnap (!)

Yes: made this summer, not a century ago.

ZT-8 in the half-frame Чайка

Macro again, but this time HiTec: Jupiter 11 on the 21mm tube.
Nice composition.






For more tutorials (more technique) click on the label below.

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.

the 2014 Christmas Lecture

I am a black and white person, and rather analogue.
But sometimes I want to emphasize a mood.

High noon, the small pic left.

The hound of the Baskervilles.

 Sometimes my scanner does wonderful things with tiny, curled and bad developed Minox films.








Sometimes I use Picasa just for fun.
Exploring the possibilities.

Like I did, decades ago, with toxic chemicals and
strange Tetenal papers. Or "eiwitlazuurverf" (don't know how that's called in English - the dyes to colour b&w prints).



"Art" is in the maker, "Kitsch" is for critics.

I just call it technique. 

Conserving Levick's Notebook

I was particularly interested in the exposure calculator ( 1'53'' > ), they are much earlier than I thought.

3D stereo - howitsdun

This year's "Indian Summer Lecture" is about some fun: 3D photography.
Very easy to do, here are the steps:

1 Make two pictures, appr. 63mm horizontally apart, like your eyes are. You can use any camera, make a pinhole-box, or use a special one like the Iloca above.

2 Crop and align them with Picasa (or your own photoshop-thinghy). You have to think a bit: the left picture has to be at the left - my pinhole-print is wrong, you will never see 3D there!

3 Size: I print on 10x15 cm. If you only want them on your srcreen, the distance has to be 63 mm again.

4 A dark background is better for easy viewing.

5 How to look at them: it's a technique, or a trick. First: relax. Eyes at infinite, then just concentrate on the middle. Or buy a viewer like my Underwood, patented in 1901.

Try it! Download one of my pics above, find the right size for your screen and practise, get those eye-muscles moving. It's fun.

7 Sep Update: just a small hand-held quicky. I moved the camera not only horizontally, but also in a circle (more or less...) and discovered the 3D effect does nòt get better, but rather "well-done" (and I prefer mine "rare"):

And if you can get antique stereoscopic cards - those are real time machines! Great to be in that street, a century ore more ago:

Oh - I always forget the anaglyph method, because I don't have, nor like, the glasses. But that's also rather easy to do:

And of course:

Even in -26 Irkutsk with trowaways 3D is possible!

And, not photography, but nevertheless: