Today, in 2012...

Then and now 36

Once upon a time Nijmegen was a famous flower city for tourists. Today I had a déjà-vu from the late sixties, when I visited sunny Czechoslovakia.
Yes, it is the same avenue, railway station in the back,  and there are still some fountains.

BW&Co Tabloid still going strong on FP in the Olympus half frame.

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!

Tabloid

"Tabloid", did start just as a design ( ovoid tablet ) and then started a war when compact papers stole the name. BW&Co. lost that, alas. But their developer, from around 1926 was superb: the cloudy solution still works almost 90 years later. Look at the small picture, that's 10% of the whole negative. (Shanghai GP3!)

Eine deutsche Zeitmaschine.

 Jaaa, der Käfer ist bloss retro, aber das bin ich ja selber auch, irgendwie. Von heute, und von gestern.
"Das werden wohl àndere Bilder als digital?" fragt er. "Licht, sag'ich, Licht und meine Jugend. Damals."
Ansonsten ist es mal wieder ein Blitzbesuch, zu heiss für langes Spazieren.
Conejo und Marques de Alella bei Madrid, und Nussbecher - nein: heute an der Kö, Ristorante Buongiorno, wegen des Bildes hier oben.

Die Zeitmaschine, alles Sechziger: Agfa Click mìt Gelbscheibe und Isopan ISS. In Rodinal, versteht sich!

Apropos damals: die von der Rheinischen Post ist wenigstens noch gelb. So'n Bissken.

100! Jubilee!

This is the 100th film I tested, so I took something special: the only 12th lot of 1975 Тасма (probably, no name on the box) B&W reversal.
Details on photostream erwinruys.

What you see is the monument for Operation Market Garden.

Sunday

Early morning, empty house, light and shadow.

Elmar 9cm, in the Frankenstein I underexposed 1989 AgfaOrtho, in Реактив.