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Walk in the woods, framed.img655

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Time machine image, taken in 1970s.

My friend was taking her dog for a walk in the woods.

Using a 1950s Zeiss Ikon Ikonta camera, with manual scale focus and manual guess exposures, which I had been carrying around for the absolute charm of this classic. The folding pocket camera uses 120 roll film for a 6cm by 6cm square image with a Compur leaf shutter and 75mm Tessar lens. In those days, my film of choice was Kodak Tri X, a 400 ASA black and white film with wide latitude for forgiving exposure guesses, then developed in Kodak D-76, diluted 1 to 1.

It was dark in the afternoon woods, so my exposure was likely 1/10th to 1/25th a second with evidence of camera panning and the blur which goes with it, shooting wide open at F3.5. The mat colors shown are how I exhibited the image with an off white creme inner mat and a magenta/brown outer mat.

The print was done on Agfa Portriga III, double weight paper, developed in LPD paper developer diluted 1 to 4 for its warm tone. Development time was 1 and a half minutes with continuous agitation, paper face down in the tray to avoid chance fogging from safelights, at a temperature of 75 F. degrees. Exposure was 8 seconds at F-11 on an Omega D3V condenser enlarger. My memory is helped by the facts I record on the back of each print in pencil, as I print, a helpful way to repeat results when needed.

eugene
Image size
900x923px 425.94 KB
Make
SEIKO EPSON CORP.
Model
EPSON scanner
Date Taken
Jan 11, 2013, 12:02:52 AM
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Beautiful, Eugene. An image of harmony and peace.