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Foggy mornings on film

Posted on 20/09/2020 by keis

Thank you to my friend @Kaare Bak, who just did his piece on foggy mornings which you can see right here, it motivated me to write this small blogpost.

Autumn has arrived, and when you live close to the harbour, like i do. Some wonderful mornings are here. FOG mornings. First you wake up a bit early and look out the window, and see this. Sun is up, and the delicious fog is in the air.

View from my house, the grand old tree is from the local priest house.

You jump into your trousers, grap your camera, which i hope was the Leicaflex, but it might have been the Olympus MJU 2, not super sure. Scanned the film today, with a lot of other films, and my note taking skills seems to be lacking :). I like taking pictures, not notes ! 🙂

Im really not a morning person, i keep telling myself that, even though it wake up earlier and earlier each year. But such a morning is just a magic moment, the town is almost quiet, the light is fantastic, this is really mother nature showing her good side. And then you arrive at the water front, where you enter a fairy tale world of magic and light. Then i start believing in magic!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures, cya next time

Leicaflex + 50mm Summicron(I Hope :)) + Kodak 200 homescanned in Epson V550.

Roadtrip pictures with the Olympus MJU II + some Mobile :)

Posted on 10/08/2020 by admin

In late June i was on a road trip to a little photo walk arranged by some good people from the danish Fuji Group on Facebook( I shot analog and Henrik Shot Nikon, we just like pictures :)) . Next post will be about the photo walk itself.

But this is a short resume of how we got there. Me and the good Henrik you see in the pictures took the long scenic route down through Denmark, while the rain poured down all the way.

Around evening time, the hunger started gnawing, and Henrik found the perfect place for a First stop. We wanted a good old road Inn and we found it on Bregninge Kro (Kro means Inn in danish). Excellent place, that has not been renovated since the 80…. 🙂 It was a total trip down Memory lane on hows Inns used to look, no fast food! but Cheap food, and plenty of it, if you enjoy the original danish food, thats a little on the traditional side 🙂 The last picture is the danish National Course, “Stegt Flæsk and Persillesovs”

Next stop on the Road trip was in “Spodsbjerg” a little ferry town on “Langeland”, where we had to spend some time waiting for a ferry on a gray and rainy day. Me and Henrik went a little crazy when we saw the colorful fish boxes on that gray day 🙂 We had a blast, and i really love how the little Mju2 handled everything, its weather sealed, and i really dig how the the colors of the Lomo 400 film turned out in that gray dim light.

Last step on the road trip was the ferry to “Lolland”, we could have taken the fast highway, but this was slow and authentic, and i loved every minute of it 🙂

I love the Olympus MJU 2 as a b-cam ! 🙂 Stay safe out there !

Posted in Analog, Lomography 400, Olympus MJU II, Photography | Tagged Analog photography, Film photography, Lomography 4000, MJU II, Olympus MJU 2 | Leave a comment

A tale of Leica and wine

Posted on 14/07/2020 by admin

Recently i was out with a good photo buddy of mine, who you can find here http://www.kaarebak.dk/ amazing photographer!

And as all good days, it starts with wine. Just kidding 🙂 But i was allowed to take some photos at https://quistwine.dk/ where Kim(The Owner) treated us to some small tasting of some fantastic wines, and yes i bought a case :). Its a great place, with some unique wines they import themselves (he and his wife), and the passion just shines through, he loves what he is doing. I love when you can feel that ! I love photography and cloud computing ! 🙂

We were supposed to shoot a lot more that day, but ended up spending a good amount of time, tasting some fantastic wine.

Shot on Leicaflex SL+ 50 Summicron + 90 Elmarit

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Troubleshooting a light leak in LeicaFlex SL

Posted on 04/07/2020 by keis

Not so long ago, a good old childhood friend, gifted me his fathers Leicaflex SL, with which i have shot quite a few rolls, it has always been plagued by intermittent light leaks, not consistent. So i have many great photos with out any light leakage. You can see the error in the picture, its pretty consistent, but varies a lot in how much it affects the picture.

I posted the above pictures in several different Facebook groups, and got some good advice on howto approach it with logic. As you can see on the negative below, the light leakage stops at the sprockets, and that actually tells us that the light leak comes from the front the film/camera. If it had come from the back, the sprocket would also have been colored.

Next step was finding out why it only happened sometimes…. Another Facebook group, and another answer from an old camera dealer, who suggested i looked at the “second” curtain, meaning that one thats there when you cock the shutter on the camera, and voila we have our culprit 🙂 So if i have the shutter cocked long before the taking the shot, it slowly builds up. Elementary my dear Watson ! But did not find so much info about it, so thought i would write this blogpost, hope you found it useful.