The old town of Takayama in Gifu Prefecture has been beautifully preserved with many buildings and whole streets of houses dating back to the feudal ages, when the city thrived as a wealthy merchant town. This kind of scenery lends itself to being photographed on film, so here is a photo set taken with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fujicolor Pro 160 NS.
Here's @rzolau metering to get a beautiful photo of some 1970s #terminal gear in my #University office. We're working on a super fun project to capture some of my #retrocomputing and #VintageRadio hardware. Here he's using period-correct #MediumFormat#film equipment to set up the (unstaged, ambient light) shot while a #Teletype Model 28 KSR photobombs the #Hasselblad camera.
It's half past 1 in the morning. I just spent 15 minutes in my bathroom. With the lights out. Reversing a roll of 120 film by hand, because my camera decided it wanted to be special and wouldn't properly count frames, and thus wound the entire rollover before even moving off of S. I didn't bring an empty spool with me. So I have to, in the dark, unwind, reverse, and rewind, an entire roll of 120.
This is not the first time I've done this. And I can tell you from experience that every time I do it I end up having to move the start of the film about a quarter inch or so because I can never get the tension right and have to move the taped end. So I'm sitting here, literally sitting, on the floor, I kid you not, using my feet as makeshift clamps to hold either end of the roll flat so I can manipulate the other one without it coiling up into cthulhu's monster.
I did it. But I don't know how badly misaligned everything is.
This page is a hidden gem, it's in German but you will get around. It's a #camera#museum that categorised all its #cameras in a searchable #database.
It's absolutely brilliant (tough obviously not compete) if you are looking for a specific #analog camera, a certain #film format or #objective. Also great for finding an alternative👌