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Just noticed these four pictures I took with the #Voigtländer #BellowsCamera have a consistent splotch in the lower left.
I wonder if there is a light leak in the bellows.
Or could some smudge on the lens cause this?
I see this consistently in the pictures towards the end of the roll, but not before that, so something happened. But it could either be a leak developing or something getting into the lens.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #believeinfilm #120film #mediumformat #Voigtlander #bnw #blackandwhite #SamTrans

two crows on an outcropping over the ocean
a cute bus
a foggy morning on my street
Devil's Slide trail
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A few pictures from the #Voigtländer. #BellowsCamera, This is in downtown #redwoodcity.
I've been thinking a bit about what the quality difference between box cameras and a "real" camera like this is. I think overall I get more *consistently* better results because exposure can be set to just what it needs to be. A Brownie can give you some damn nice pictures, but you get a lot of over- and underexposed ones too (although going by guesswork and intuition can be fun, and when you get good at that, you can pull out the camera and make a picture a lot quicker than with a real camera where 3 different things need to be scientifically set).
#filmphotography #filmisnotdead #120film #mediumformat #blackandwhite #bnw #Voigtlander

classic brick 2-story commercial building, which now contains the Coffee Bar
same building, more of an angle, so you can see the Coffee Bar sign sticking out
building next door, which has a crest giving its date of construction as 1910 A.D., topped by an eagle
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I've been wanting to take film pictures of my cats for a long time, but the old box cameras I've mostly been using focus at 10', so I couldn't really take proper portraits of them. I got a snap-on close-up lens for the #Duaflex, and with that, the focus is at 3', which is just about right. That's how I took the first two pictures. The second pair are from a #Voigtländer bellows camera, my first "respectable" #MediumFormat camera, which lets you focus and adjust speed and aperture.
You *can* make that kind of adjustments on box cameras, thought it's pretty primitive--though I kind of like that.
The Duaflex pictures were color-adjusted with #Irfanview (they are probably underexposed), the Voigtländer pictures didn't need anything.
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #mediumformat #120film #kodakduaflex #cats #catsofmastodon #Voigtlander #BellowsCamera

Chompsky, a black and white Tuxedo cat, sitting on leaves, with a pumpkin in the background
Ilyich, a snowshoe siamese, curled up on a wicker chair on our porch
Chompsky on a porch bench
Ilyich in the same place. he sits here a lot! you can see a little bit of the "beware of cat" sign that I need to put back on the garden gate
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