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Feb 6, 2016 01:06:18   #
dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada
 
Kodak Brownie Holiday converted to take 35mm film.



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Feb 6, 2016 10:29:30   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Nice photo.

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Feb 6, 2016 15:26:54   #
minniev Loc: MIssissippi
 
dansmith wrote:
Kodak Brownie Holiday converted to take 35mm film.


Nice, peaceful and convincingly old-fashioned. This could easily be presumed to be an image from 100 years ago. Beautiful and timeless. I admire your work with your special cameras, you inspire us to try things that are outside our comfort zones.

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Feb 6, 2016 19:49:31   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
dansmith wrote:
Kodak Brownie Holiday converted to take 35mm film.


Gives a great impression of the vastness of that landscape. Very good image.

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Feb 6, 2016 23:50:27   #
photosbytw Loc: Blue Ridge Mountains
 
dansmith wrote:
Kodak Brownie Holiday converted to take 35mm film.


:thumbup:

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Feb 7, 2016 10:02:29   #
abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
 
dansmith wrote:
Kodak Brownie Holiday converted to take 35mm film.


The classic look of the 30's and 40's. Begs for more foreground. Has the soft look so common in those days. I would overdevelop the film a bit to improve the snap.

Love the Hassel in the avatar. Long live 2 1/4 square!

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Feb 7, 2016 13:15:11   #
dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada
 
Thanks for the look and comments everyone. These old snapshooters deserve an outing every once in awhile.

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Feb 7, 2016 13:36:17   #
dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada
 
abc1234 wrote:
The classic look of the 30's and 40's. Begs for more foreground. Has the soft look so common in those days. I would overdevelop the film a bit to improve the snap.

Love the Hassel in the avatar. Long live 2 1/4 square!


Thanks for the comments abc.
When I masked the Holiday's film guide I reduced the width to fit but left the length so wound up with a pano format of 3/4" x2 1/2" negative size. Foreground is only the rest of the carrigana bushes and a fence so I aimed to favour the sky.
All Brownies are soft, This one a bit too much for my liking.

As for the processing, the holiday is fixed at f8 and what looks like 1/50 sec. It was a fairly bright day so I shot through a Y2 and pulled the FP4 1 stop as well in development still leaving about 1 1/2 stops over but FP4 has lots of latitude. I'm going to rescan this at a higher resolution and play around with different edits to try and get better sky.

Yes, I enjoy the 500C. Other good 6x6 is a Roelli 3.5 F that shares the shelf, equally fun to drive but my soft spot is for my bleary eyed old cheapies.

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