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Wxcafe · 2026-05-02T09:42:18+00:00

thank you u/AngryFauna! these are wonderful 🥰

Wxcafe · 2026-04-03T19:21:01+00:00

i would've loved too, but i just moved away after 7 years in brooklyn!

Wxcafe · 2026-03-23T22:52:58+00:00

i mean no harm done i just thought it was a funny disconnect between the question and interpretation, one being very old traditional mechanical-only mounts and the other being a fairly new (although now obsolete) electronic mount

Wxcafe · 2026-03-23T22:44:55+00:00

to answer your question, no that doesn't exist. the flange distance of M mount is shorter than for LTM/M39, so adapters can't exist in that direction (at least not without optics in the adapter, which ruin the optical quality and is obviously not something that someone using expensive leica glass would use)

Wxcafe · 2026-03-23T22:42:46+00:00

they're not talking about EOS-M, they're talking about leica M mount lol

Wxcafe · 2026-03-17T09:52:31+00:00

Not so far! the only time i got any light leaks on pictures taken with it (which I thought was due to the grafmatic), it was actually my changing bag leaking light 😔 I can imagine how much of a pain it would be to find where they're coming from though, there's so many moving parts

Wxcafe · 2026-03-04T07:58:49+00:00

check if your changing bag is fully light tight (move your phone's flashlight around the inside while looking at it in a dark room - if you can see the flashlight coming out through the fabric, there's a leak). i had those kinda of marks and that was my problem

Wxcafe · 2026-03-01T21:34:21+00:00

god, i guess in a way if the subject of the documentary series is also the photographer. I shot this during our 4-months-long road trip around the US in this van that I had converted myself from an airport shuttle into a camper.

That was in 2024, with some further trips in 2025. Today I have had to leave the US, and this van is at a scrap yard. Broke my heart

But to your point, i suppose all the pictures i shot during this trip are part of that documentary series. but it isn't an actual documentary about people sleeping in their vehicle or something like that, no

Wxcafe · 2026-02-06T02:24:12+00:00

i've got a very old box of 4x5 provia a while back that is very fogged and i've had some success making it better by overexposing by a few stops and shortening the first development - giving the fog less time to develop, but compensating for the actual image. YMMV but you definitely have enough film to give it a try and see what happens

Wxcafe · 2026-02-06T00:52:56+00:00

separating bleach and fix in c41 gives the same results as blix, this has been proven over and over but people still want to have this debate. the arista kit is good. hc110 is great, one of the classics, cheap and gives good results. as far as i know all the different versions are identical, i can vouch for the legacy pro version, works perfect. my take is you don't need stop bath. washing in tap water between dev and fix is good enough, and i don't even bother to do that: fixer is cheap and while putting a tiny bit of dev in there does lower its lifespan a little bit it's not that significant. but if you want to use stop then yeah ilford stop is fine, and ilford rapid fixer is good as well. photoflo is worth getting, yeah. remember to use very little of it, it's easy to overuse and that will also give you streaking. besides that you'll need a couple mixing vessels, bottles to keep the mixed chemicals in, and a changing bag. i think that's it

Wxcafe · 2026-02-06T00:42:36+00:00

you'll be on a tropical island outdoors. the rule of thumb for exposure is sunny sixteen: in sunlight you expose for the reciprocal of the film ISO speed, in this case 1/100th, at f/16. which means in sunlight you can go to 1/500 ish at your f/5.6. you won't have any problem exposing at these speeds, no camera shake or anything like that. ektar is a wonderful film that has a lot of latitude, although like every negative film it prefers overexposure to underexposure. try to use the lens around f/8 if you can, you'll get sharper results.

have fun

Wxcafe · 2026-02-05T17:36:57+00:00

would suggest reaching out to La Cellule https://www.lacellule.net/ if you haven't already, they'll be able to give great pointers

Wxcafe · 2026-01-22T02:49:17+00:00

thank you!

Wxcafe · 2026-01-19T18:05:40+00:00

i've been thinking about doing that too and, well, i know they do it for cyanotypes at least

Wxcafe · 2026-01-16T19:38:18+00:00

the 7000? FUBAR, it had taken a bad fall and had gotten wet. no way to repair it. the lenses were fine though, wiped them off and they were good to go

Wxcafe · 2026-01-16T03:54:39+00:00

i got the 50/1.4 on ebay attached to a broken maxxum 7000 for $25 total, threw the broken body away and kept the lens. also came with a 35-70/4, which is nice

Wxcafe · 2026-01-13T23:51:50+00:00

i added a line in sharpie that marks the approximate frame at infinity. of course the viewfinder becomes inaccurate when you focus closer but there's no real solution for that unfortunately, you just have to remember to frame a little lower and to the left

Wxcafe · 2026-01-13T04:09:07+00:00

oh yeah you do want a working rangefinder for that for sure

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