MSA O/N February 2023 - Words and Symbols

Roger Thoms · Feb 14, 2023

New category, from last week. The “Giant Camera” Obscura took a real beating during our January storms. From the news reports it sounds like the owner has put in an insurance claim, hopefully they will be able to rebuild.
Nikon F4, Nikkor Ai-S 84mm f1.4, Kodak Tri-X 400.

Roger

KitosLAB · Feb 15, 2023

Canon Photura135. Kyiv. City Council building. Words and Symbols

Daniela · Feb 16, 2023

Feels kind of silly to post this after @KitosLAB 's picture, but here it goes. By the way, all my love to the Ukrainian people.

New.
A modest reminder: You're here...
We're here. What a privilege.

Sirius Glass · Feb 16, 2023

Daniela said:
Feels kind of silly to post this after @KitosLAB 's picture, but here it goes. By the way, all my love to the Ukrainian people.

New.
A modest reminder: You're here...
We're here. What a privilege.
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Does the writing mean that one has arrived?

TheFlyingCamera · Feb 16, 2023

Old-
Camera is a Canham 5x12 wood field, lens a Kodak 190mm Wide-Field Ektar IIRC (either that or my 159 Wollensak WA Raptar) Exposure is, as Rolls Royce would put it, "sufficient". Film is FP4+. Printed on Ilford Warmtone Multigrade developed in Ilford Warmtone paper (the warmtone is sublte and does not come through on a computer monitor).

dourbalistar · Feb 16, 2023

Roger Thoms said:
New category, from last week. The “Giant Camera” Obscura took a real beating during our January storms. From the news reports it sounds like the owner has put in an insurance claim, hopefully they will be able to rebuild.View attachment 329706
Nikon F4, Nikkor Ai-S 84mm f1.4, Kodak Tri-X 400.

Roger

Wow, the storms nearly ripped the entire facade off that side of the building (er... camera)! Very interesting that they left the old lettering in place. Here's an old photo of the Giant Camera, taken two years ago, February 2021:

2021.02.06 Roll #268-05956-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

dourbalistar · Feb 16, 2023

Another photo from the old category (July 2022), which includes both words and a symbol.

Nikon FM2n, Nikkor-S Auto 55mm f/1.2, Kentmere Pan 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes.

2022.07.17 Roll #315-07360-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

p.s. The Milk Carton Kids have a hilarious bit about the history and etymology of the ampersand symbol:

Roger Thoms · Feb 16, 2023

dourbalistar said:
Wow, the storms nearly ripped the entire facade off that side of the building (er... camera)! Very interesting that they left the old lettering in place. Here's an old photo of the Giant Camera, taken two years ago, February 2021:

2021.02.06 Roll #268-05956-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

Nice, thanks for posting the “before” photograph. Here’s a link to a before photo I posted in the Standard Gallery. https://www.photrio.com/forum/media/giant-camera.66223/

Daniela · Feb 16, 2023

Sirius Glass said:
Does the writing mean that one has arrived?

That's indeed a possibility...

jeffreyg · Feb 17, 2023

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Sirius Glass · Feb 17, 2023

jeffreyg said:
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More than a few of us do that.

macfred · Feb 17, 2023

An older one
...

Doing it for the boys ...

Rolleiflex 3.5F - Planar - Porta 400

Kino · Feb 17, 2023

Old Photos

Kiev 88, 80mm f2. MC Volna-3, Arista EDU 400 in GEVAERT GD.33 (exposure unrecorded)
Edit: let's drop that down in size a bit...

Nikon F100, Kodak Color Plus, unrecorded lens and exposure.

logan2z · Feb 19, 2023

Great submissions so far! Keep them coming...

markjwyatt · Feb 20, 2023

Old- ummm... 2020
Exakta VX, CZJ 58mm f2 Biotar; Ilford FP4+, HC110

2020 Sucks by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

logan2z · Feb 22, 2023

Just five days left, it's a short month!

Kino · Feb 22, 2023

Nikon F100, Kodak Color Plus, unrecorded lens and exposure.

Roger Thoms · Feb 23, 2023

New category, from last Saturday. Nikon N70, Nikkor AF 35-70mm f3.3-4.5, Agfa APX 100 exp. 2006.

Mick Fagan · Feb 25, 2023

New category, two weeks ago

Stuck to the inside of a dunny door in a caravan park.

Nikon F3 50mm f/1.8 Lucky SHD 100

Mick Fagan · Feb 25, 2023

New Category, last week.

Funnily enough, as I was exposing the film, I started to hear a woman laughing, she was sitting in her car loading her wheelchair when she saw me and looked up at the sign(s). We had a nice chat..

Nikon F3 50mm f/1.8 Lucky SHD 100

Mick Fagan · Feb 25, 2023

Old, taken in 2018. Did a walk around with a camera in the same area with one lens quite a few times in this area while waiting to pick the missus up after seeing doctors. 24mm seemed to be the best overall out of 18mm, 24mm ,35mm ,50mm and 85mm

Nikon F3 Sigma 24mm f/2.8 Fuji Neopan 400.

macfred · Feb 26, 2023

Mick Fagan said:
New category, two weeks ago

Stuck to the inside of a dunny door in a caravan park.

Nikon F3 50mm f/1.8 Lucky SHD 100

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Love this !!

Mick Fagan · Feb 26, 2023

Thanks Macfred>

Mick Fagan · Feb 26, 2023

Old.

This was taken in1969 when refrigeration in rural and outback areas of the country was pretty rare. What happened was the local (to a little town/hamlet) person who owned a couple of cows would walk them a few hundred metres into the intersection of the two roads, which was more or less the town and milk the cows by hand and sell the milk to the locals for use that day.

This was taken with a rangefinder camera, either a Canon or a Voigtländer, cannot remember which as I destroyed one during a motorcycle crash that year. The print was made on RC paper, the very first time I used RC paper if my memory is correct, it has stood up well going yellow(ish) in places on the rear.

This is a phone scan of the print.

logan2z · Feb 27, 2023

Just one day left. Post 'em if you've got 'em...

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