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Some time ago I modded a Polaroid 80A to make me able to use it with 120 film. My main reasons for doing so were: 1) I wanted to use the camera even though it had an obsolete film format, giving it a new life, and: 2) it is a very advanced camera for what you pay for (nowadays). This is the top third of an exposure, edited because of a double-exposure. The first photo in this post is one of the first successful exposures I made with the camera. There were three unsuccessful rolls before that, since I used a method of film transport that didn't work (see this post). A third of a neg, cut because of double exposure. Kodak Portra 400. Initially I didn't have a display window for the exposure counting (which displays the number of photos on the backing paper of the film) so wound on by approximation. Eventually I drilled a hole on the back of the camera to be able to see the numbers and to economize film. There are five (5) layers of metal to breach to make that hole!     This o...

Being a faithful user of Fomapan 400 film I became even more happy when I read somewhere that there can be some benefits from pushing it. Both speed (of course) and contrast increases, both of which I am a fan of. So to try it for myself I begun by loading my Halina 35X for the holiday by the sea. I am very happy by the grittier contrast that the push process brings. It means that I don't have to spend as much time editing to reach that look. Some of these photos were not edited apart from by the scanning automation. And then I exposed another roll through my Olympus Pen F. I am very happy with the results! Visit my  Etsy shop  for cameras and related stuff,  the  facebook group  on modding lenses and cameras or my Instagram account  ourbooksmalmo .  

In the decades following the Second World War the European countries screamed for workers, a situation which in many aspects is similar to today, although quadrupled and spread all over the world. A seventh man is a documentation of the life and circumstances of workers in migration, in Europe, in words and photographs by John Berger and Jean Mohr, respectively. This book is a collaborative effort by the authors with the intention of analyzing and displaying the problematic ways in which the migrant workers spend their time and energy, while displaced in a foreign culture. Although the book was published 46 years ago, much of the problems that are highlighted have not been solved. I have to mention Mike Davies' Planet of Slums if you're interested in (more contemporary aspects of) the subject at hand. Or, by all means, read any newspaper.   Visit my  Etsy shop  for cameras and related stuff,  the  facebook group  on modding lenses and cameras or my Instagr...

Here are some photos from two summer weeks on Washi A 12 ASA. I used a 58 mm Helios-44, a Prinzflex 135 mm and a 45 mm Steinheil Cassarit lens on my Olympus Pen F camera. And some on Washi S 50 ASA. Visit my  Etsy shop  for cameras and related stuff,  the  facebook group  on modding lenses and cameras or my Instagram account  ourbooksmalmo .