A Swami in Stereo

The Swami Vivekenanda

An unplanned stereo pair from a trip to the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. This is with the Hasselblad, the 40mm Distagon C lens, and Ektar film.

Click for larger image. Slowly cross your eyes while looking at the center of the image, and a stereo illusion will appear.

The Swami Vivekananda

The illusions may be improved with some better positioning. I may work with them more in order to make some prints.

The Omniscope - 10-Bolt Self Portrait

I like to unroll things with the Abelson Scopeworks Omniscope pinhole camera.

This is the wheel from a firetruck. The camera was aligned with the center axis of the wheel. The Omniscope 'sees' a donut shape, just shy of a 360º circle. The image captured by the film is an unrolled version of the donut - in effect, a polar to rectangular conversion. For this image, I used Kodak E100GX, now discontinued.

In the image, there are 10 little reflections of me making the exposure - on the 10 bolts. To the right of the 6th bolt, there is a person (horizontal), as well as my tripod at the center of the image.

Exposure was in the range of two to three seconds. There is no viewfinder. I have used this enough to ray-trace the approximate view. There are always surprises - in this case the beautiful lighting artifacts, due to internal camera reflections. The lighting upon the tire brand with the little highlight was purely unexpected.

Click for a larger view.

Ten-Bolt Self Portrait

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Waiting for a few parts...

From a recent road trip through rural Illinois...

Scratch and dent sale

Beechcraft Model 18 or variant. Imaged with Hasselblad 501 CM, 50mm CB lens, Kodak Ektar film. Post-processing with Adobe Elements 11, Orton effect and vignette.

Furnace

From the Joliet Iron Works Historic site.

Echo Chamber

And you thought Fort Dodge lacked amusements...

Amusements. Sadly, this one has been dismantled.

Fun Time

Uplifting

Rust Belt

A recent foray into the area around Joliet Iron Works. The textures and features are intriguing. These images were taken with the Hasselblad 501 CM, the Planar f/2.8 80mm CB  and Arista EDU film (100 ASA). Part of this trip was to test the Mutar - an extension for C-series lenses that doubles the focal length. It will cost 2 stops of light. I am impressed with its optical performance.

Corrosion

Heavy Industry

Planar f/2.8 80mm CB

Heavy Industry II

80mm CB and 2X Mutar

I will post more images from this excursion soon.

Leica IIIf

Here are a few images of my Leica IIIf. There are various sites that list manufacturing data. This camera was manufactured circa 1952. I purchased the body from KEH Camera, and sent it to DAG Camera for a CLA. The shutter curtain that was in the camera was not a Leica part, and the viewfinder mirror was dim. Both parts were replaced with NOS parts. The camera was cleaned and adjusted, and has worked beautifully for the decade that I have had it.

Click each image for a larger view.

With the Summarit 50mm 1.5, and a Voigtlander  accessory viewfinder

The yellow filter for black and white film... pops the contrast of the clouds!

Yellow filter and lens shade

I found a manual for this camera here, if you wish to explore the various knobs, levers, and buttons. This is a spectacular example of mechanical art and design.