my favorite benches. part 1.

My favorite benches is a new series about benches, where I like to sit and think and dream and so on.
The first five benches are in Karlsruhe, where I lived some time and the other two benches are in Cologne, where I'm living. 
I used my Minolta Dynax 600si Classic with a Minolta AF 4-5.6/35-80mm Power Zoom. The film was a Fuji Superia 200.

The digital WIRRWARR! part 2.

Some more scary pictures made with or better by the Fuji FinePix A120. The following pictures are, like the last time, out of the camera without Photoshop manipulation.

The digital WIRRWARR!

Sometimes a camera is like an artist and does the whole work, like in this case a Fuji FinePix A120, which I bought on a fleamarket. It is a very simple compact camera with three megapixel from 2004. The camera came without a xD-Picture Card. Today it is a little bit complicated to find such a memory card, but on another fleamarket I found another FinePix camera in a very bad condition, but with a Olympus 256MB xD-Picture Card made by Samsung.
The pictures you can see here are out of the camera without manipulation with Photoshop.

Half-format means double fun!

Do you know half-frame cameras? It is a type of camera that uses normal 35mm film, but doesn't use the normal 24x36mm format, but the 24x18mm format. Therefore you get 72 frames from a normal 36-frames film. These cameras were very popular in the 1960s.
I bought a wonderful Fujica Half, a dream of a camera made in the 1960s. Today there are many retro cameras which copy the look of the wonderful cameras from the 1960s. But the original cameras out of this time are still more beautiful that the copies of today.
As first film I didn't want to use a 36-frame film, because I thought that 72 frames are a high number. Therefore I used a 12-frame Euro Activ Color 200 film, which is probably an Agfacolor HDC and is expired since 05/1997. I shot the film @ ISO 100.
I wanted to create picture couples, which means two pictures which are mirrored. At the end it was more difficult than you imagine, but it makes a great fun with wonderful results.