Ent-Faltet.

The work Ent-Faltet (entfaltet, which is German and means unfolds) stands in connection with my work Ent-Fernt (entfernt, which is German and means removed) from 2008.
I used once more like for the transplantation works the Fernmeldeturm Grünwettersbach as motive and shot it with my Praktica PLC3 and the Revue Automatic 4.5/240mm lens (a rebranded Enna München Tele-Ennalyt) on an AgfaPhoto APX 100 film.
The photomontage Ent-Faltet #1 consists of 6 B&W-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 48x16,5cm
The photomontage Ent-Faltet #2 consists of 4 B&W-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 54x15,5cm 

in the woods.

I'm not the wildlife-animal-zoo-photograph, but some weeks ago I was in the Wildpark Pforzheim with my Praktica PLC3 and the Revue Automatic 4.5/240mm lens (a rebranded Enna München Tele-Ennalyt). The weather wasn't good, but I shot some animals on an AgfaPhoto APX 100 film with exposure times at 1/60 and 1/125 without a tripod at f-stop 4.5.

My PRAKTIsche CAmera collection.

The KW beauties

Here is my Praktica collection! At this moment I have got eleven of them from seven different series:
Praktiflex FX
Praktica F.X3 blue
Praktica IV 
Praktica nova 1st modification (Praktica nova series)
Porst FX4 (Praktica PL nova I series)
Praktica super TL (Praktica PL nova I series)
Porst CX4 (Praktica L series - 1st generation)
Praktica LTL3 black speed (Praktica L series - 2nd generation)
Praktica PLC3 (Praktica L series - 3rd generation)
Revue ML (Praktica L series - 4th generation)
Praktica BMS (Praktica B-System - cameras with manual speed shutter control)

PLC3 and nova

The early models (FX, F.X3 and IV) were still built by KW and then from the nova models by Pentacon.
Therefore I consider the Pentacon FB and the KW Pentona to this collection, too.

BMS and Pentacon FB

advertising from West German fotoMagazin 08/1971 magazine

advertising from West German Colorfoto 11/1976 magazine

advertising from Brazilian Iris Foto 10/1982 magazine

I like a lot to photograph with the Prakticas, because they're simple, but have a very good quality.
Here come some of my favorite pictures, which I shot with Prakticas:

"einsame zweisamkeit", germany, 2005: shot with the Porst FX4

"emancipate yourself from mental slavery", brasil, 2010: shot with the LTL3

"a flor desfocada #3", brasil, 2011: shot with the Porst FX4

"guevara", germany, 2015: shot with the Revue ML

"der kran #3", germany, 2015: shot with the Porst CX4

Say "yes" to the PRAKTICA

My work is featured @ Shooting Film!!!

Twelve analog photos, which I made from my girlfriend are featured @ Shooting Film.
Here you can my the pictures.

Screw the circle on!!!

In August I bought at the Mimapi Altertümchen in Cologne a Skylite auxiliary video telephoto lens 1.5x for some euros.

But the screw mount of the auxiliary lens was very tiny, just 46mm, too small for my lenses. Therefore I had to find some kind of adapter to use it with some of my lenses. I found an old plastic ring, perhaps an old lens filter, but without the glass, which was at the Chinon-made Revuenon 1.7/55mm lens. The filter screw of this lens is 52mm. I glued the plastic ring and the 46mm ring of the auxiliary lens with loctite together and everything works perfect.

If you attach it to the Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens, which also has a 52mm filter thread, it makes (because of the factor 1.5x) a 42mm lens out of it. But of course, the aperture also changes with the factor 1.5x, therefore an aperture of 3.5 becomes a 5.25 (~5.6).

Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens + auxiliary video telephoto lens

Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens + auxiliary video telephoto lens

But the auxiliary lens creates a strong edge cover, because it isn't for wideangle lenses, but for a focal length of 50mm or something else. The edge cover on the pictures looks like the effect of for example the Lomo Fisheye, which creates circular photos. The combination of the Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens and the auxiliary video telephoto lens also creates this circular picture, but without the distortion of a fisheye lens.


First three pictures of my Nikon Girl without the auxiliary lens:

And now with the auxiliary lens:

Light up your film...

One of the things which I love at analog photography is the first picture of a film, which sometimes is already exposed a little bit or more, because as you put the film in the camera the light already exposed this part of the film, like here:

But there are more cool effects with light on film like light leaks, sidelight, backlight or when you open the camera with the film allready into it. At the next pictures I've used lens hoods, because the sun was very strong and the reflections of the water of the lake. But I didn't used them correctly, therefore the sidelight created a cool effect.

Here the pictures:

Colorize your flash...

Some years ago I used Ilford Multigrade Filter Kits in combination with a flash.The results were really cool, therefore when I saw the Metz flash filter set I bought it to create once more cool effects with flashin' colors.

First I've used the red filter in combination with the Bauer E528ABS flash at my Porst CX 4 with the Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens (the setup like on the photo above) on ISO 200 colorfilm. I flashed indirectly upwards.

Then I've used the green filter in combination with the Bauer E528ABS flash at my Porst CX 4 with the Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens on ISO 400 colorfilm. Once more I flashed indirectly upwards.