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.

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!