Vault Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC. 13 May 2012. (Argoflex E, Kodak Tri-X 400)
Thanks to my bud Willy G, I’m now the proud owner of an Argoflex E twin-lens reflex camera! I was impatient and brought my film to a local lab instead of sending it out for mail-order developing and they scanned the photos cropped as rectangles—quite annoying considering the camera shoots square format. Oh well, the negatives look good and I can always rescan.
I’m just thrilled I got the expose semi-correct as this camera has no meter (I used this print-out paper meter as a guide). Overall I’m very happy with my first foray into medium format and I got more rolls to go!
Just got two rolls back from Old School Photo Lab, one of which was a ~10-12 year old roll I found when I was last at my parents house. The above is blurred-head self-portrait of me as a teen. Developing this was like some weird time capsule. Yes, that is an accordion.
Stranger on the 1 train.
(I think she may have realized I took a photo….)
Shuttered Gas Station. Bronx, NYC. February(ish), 2012.
Street-view it for ColorVision! If I were a squatter I’d live in there. Seems like more and more places are abandoned and vacant in my neighborhood, kind of lame/scary, but makes for some nice photos.
OMFG (it’s there). 10th Ave & Little West 12th Street, NYC. Summer 2011.
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim, Kodak T-Max 400.
Lady with a Dog.
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. Kodak Tri-X 400TX.
Looks pretty grainy because it’s a bad scan of the negative, I’m just too lazy/cheap to get them re-scanned.
Running 35mm film through my medium-format Kodak Brownie Twin 20 worked! Above is a terrible scan I did on my flatbed scanner with an Ikea lamp as a backlight. I’ll have to figure out a way to get high-quality scans because sprocket hole photos are where it’s at.
Van Cortlandt Stadium, Bronx. Fall 2010.
Got my knee in the pic because of parallax issues inherent in all viewfinder cameras (i.e. I didn’t see my knee in the viewfinder), but decided not to crop it out or anything. I kind of like seeing part of the photographer in the photo sometimes.
