Digital EOS meets old manual lenses.

I don't like new lenses, either they're plastic crap or they're superb, but expensive. The decision to use old manual lenses wasn't difficult for me. I have a lot of M42 screw mount lenses, but as I moved back to Germany I left them in Brazil, because many of them have fungus,because of the high humidity there, inside.
But okay, in Germany you can buy old lenses for some bucks, therefore I took only my Leitz Elmarit-R 2.8/35mm, the Helios 44M-4 2/58mm and my Revuenon Special 2.8/135mm with me to Germany.
Of course I bought the M42-EOS and LeicaR-EOS adapters, both from quenoX, in Germany and not in Brazil, because photo equipment is and alway was very very expensive there.
Back in Germany it wasn't difficult to find old lenses and cameras for little money.

And here come some portraits of my beautiful girlfriend, which I shot with some of my manual lenses:

shot with Chinon 2.8/28mm

shot with Leitz Elmarit-R 2.8/35mm

shot with Revuenon MC 1.8/50mm (a labeled Pentacon/Meyer Optik Görlitz)

shot with Revuenon 1.7/55mm (a labeled Chinon)

shot with A.Schacht Ulm Edixa-Travenar-R 2.8/85mm

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:

the pocket style is going on...

...now with pictures which I shot with the luxurious Voigtländer Vitoret 110 EL, which I bought at the Mimapi Altertümchen in Cologne for 3 Euro. As film I've used an, since August 2006, expired Fuji Superia 200 film.
The pictures became very surreal!

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.

Ich bin ein Motiv!!!

"Ich bin ein Motiv" - "I am a motive" was some years ago the slogan by Konica. Some days ago I found a sheet with stickers with this slogan at the Mimapi Altertümchen in Cologne and of course I bought it. One of the stickers I taped on the Porst CX 4, a export version of the Praktica LB, which I bought last month at the fleamarket at the Rheinufer in Cologne.

But I bought more stuff in the last time and here we go with a new part of the LOCOstgraphy style.
First I bought at the fleamarket at the Rheinufer in Cologne the Porst CX 4 with the Porst 1.4/55mm lens and a camera bag from the 1970s for 20 Euro. Later on the same fleamarket I bought the Ringfoto 3.5/28mm lens for 5 Euro.
Some days later I was once more in the social secondhand store Kashka in Karlsruhe. There I bought the Revuenon 1.4/55mm and the Porst Tele 2.8/135mm lenses for 15 Euro together.
Then I was at the ZKM during the KAMUNA, where was a table with things for free. There I found a Kodak EK 8 instant camera and a Bauer E528ABS flash.
And in the last days I was once more in Cologne where I was at the Mimapi Altertümchen and there I bought the filter set for flashes from Metz with the original case for 3 Euro, a mechanical self-timer with the original case for 1 Euro and the sheet with the Konica stickers for 1 Euro.
In sum I paid 45 Euro for everything and of course, everything works perfectly!

blick.punkt

Just three pictures which I made recently...

Moloch 2.0 @ Paraty em Foco

Once more I'm participating at the Convocatória of Paraty em Foco!!! Last year my series "WIRRWARR 08/15 - As Montagens" was participating there. This year the series "Moloch 2.0" is one of the selected works in the category Portfólio Em Foco.
You can see it here:

Kodak, I miss you...

In June I bought at a flea market a Kodak pocket Instamatic 100 in which still was an old certainly expired Agfa Vista 200. From the 24 frames on it, just eight were allready shot. Of course I shot the rest and here are the results...

 I love the trashiiiie pocket style!

This year I was at the KAMUNA and among other museums I visited the wonderful ZKM where was also a table with things for free. There I found this Kodak EK 8 instant camera. The next day I put new batteries into it and voilà it works and surprise there was still a film with three sheets in it, but I think they were too expired...

We love Kodak!

Blackbird Project - MailArt project

I've participated at the cool MailArt project Blackbird Project, Brazil.
Here my work: