Contributions of the group Three or less

Doorway - Saint Mary the Virgin, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:06:42 +0000

The western doorway is at the base of the tower, which was begun around 1200, but the decoration around the arch looks to be a little later.

Whatever, it's ornamental masonry to a high standard, and matched by the elaborate ironwork on the doors, which are seemingly much later. The church was restored in the 19th century by the architect G.E. Street, so the hinges might even date from that time.

1960 Kodak 66, f4.5/75mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in Thornton's Two Bath, 6+6mins@21C.

Another 4x4

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:16:02 +0000

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Little tower with Chestnut roofing, in the garden of the museum in Crozant, Creuse.

Also taken with a 127 size camera, a Yashica 44, another delightful miniature, this time a TLR. Like the Komaflex, I gave up on the problems of slicing 120 film - I found it almost impossible to do this without leaving either scratches, or other defects, on the film.

I still have a Yashica 44LM, but it's in poor condition, and it is way down the list of priorities at present !!

Yashica 44 Foma 200 in Diafine

Lizières, 23240 Creuse. Fr

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:49:13 +0000

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This ancient building is now used as a library & public meeting place. Not sure of it's original use, I think possibly a mill of some sort, and it looks as if one of the towers has been savagely truncated !

1952 Ensign Selfix 16-20, f4.5/75mm Rosstar lens. Fomapan 200 Creative in Diafine

Garden Chairs

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:03:02 +0000

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Taken with the oldest camera I own, an early 1920's Kodak Pocket 1A.

It was made to use 116 size film, unobtainable for decades, so I machined up some spool adapters and put a roll of Fomapan 100 through it. Using 120 film gives a format of 6x11cms, so you get a semi-panoramic result. This was the best of the six frames, - despite my efforts with black tape, there were still light leaks. Vintage treatment in Gimp.

1924 Kodak Pocket 1A, f6.3/126mm Kodak Anastigmat lens. Foma Ultra 100 in Diafine, 4+4 mins@21C

Bare trees

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:35:08 +0000

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Another from the same test roll. Easy to include too much foreground when held vertically !!

Kodak Vigilant 616 converted to 120. Foma 100 in divided D23

Xantia

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:22:59 +0000

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The old Citröen is the most common target for my test shots ! From a 6x11 negative taken with a 1930's Kodak Vigilant 616 converted to 120, testing for light leaks, and developed in divided D23.

Farewell 2016 !

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:35:10 +0000

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My last post of this year, taken yesterday on a quiet little road near our home. Frankly, not the best year I can remember by a long way - the continiuing insanity in Syria and Iraq, not to mention the horrors in Nice and Berlin, the Brexit nonsense and then Trump, and finally the news that Ipernity will likely fold, so I will not be sad to see this year end !!

If Ipernity does go, I have more or less decided that I will not return to Flickr, I've paid a few visits there since the news about Ipernity broke, and I'm not impressed, so I think I will restart a dormant blog I have about the Kodak Tourist, and also try to use that camera a lot more in 2017. I'm not very familiar with blogging, and I don't do any of the social media stuff, but maybe I will be able to make something of it, and perhaps spend more time taking photographs !!

What I will miss is all the many friends I have made on Ipernity, and the inspiration of your beautiful photos, and so I still hope Ipernity will survive somehow. Ever the optimist ! Happy New Year !!

1948 Kodak Tourist, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in divided D23 5+5mins @21C, scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

Good Luck for 2017 !!

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:42:59 +0000

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Saint Médard, Naillat 23800 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:43:28 +0000

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This church was built in the 13th century, but the tower and spire are later 15thC alterations. There is some speculation about why the spire is twisted, the most likely explanation being the use of unseasoned oak for the internal carpentry, combined with premature removal of the external scaffolding, but what is certain is that it was not intentional!

This was taken on Foma 200 film, and developed in PC-Glycol and the result is a bit too "soot and whitewash" for my taste, although almost grain free. I scanned this neg at a higher resolution than normal, so it's a 32mb file which would result in an image over 2m wide if printed full size, and if you look at the original scan you will see why I like my old Kodak Tourist so much !!

When the camera was built, it was unusual to make prints much bigger than about 6"x 3½", so the original owner could never have realised what this fine triplet lens was capable of!

1948 Kodak Tourist, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma Ultra 200 in PC-Glycol, 8mins@21C. Scanned in 48bit colour@2400dpi on Epson V500

Kinax Junior 1953

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:46:24 +0000

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It is strange that France, which played such an important role in the development of photography, should have produced so few notable makes of cameras - but on reflection, I suppose one could say exactly the same of the British!

Almost all French made medium format folding cameras were 6x9, there were a few 6x4.5, but I can think of no 6x6 French folders, although I'm sure there must have been some! This is a 6x9, a Kinax Junior, made by Société Industrielle de Photographie et d'Optique, Paris & Montreuil sous Bois, I think, in 1953.

Well made and well finished, this version shared the same body as the more highly specified models, but has only a modest f6.3/100mm triplet lens in a simple 4 speed shutter, 1/10th to 1/150th + B. It uses 620 film, which is why I have only ever taken a few rolls of film with it, and the lens has a strange 29mm diameter mount for push on filters and hood, so I had to machine up a little adapter ring to allow the more normal 32mm fittings to be used.

The camera is like new, seems to have been hardly ever used, and now I have sorted converting 120 to 620 without re-spooling, I will put another roll through it, but the f6,3 is a bit limiting, as is the top speed of 1/150th, so I'm not optimistic - really, just a Shelf Queen!

Mamiya RB67, 645 back, f3.5/65mm Mamiya Sekor lens. Foma 100 in divided D23, 7+5 mins stand @21C, scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500.

Saint-Sulpice-le-Guérétois, 23000, Creuse

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:53:59 +0000

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Following on from the last pic, here's another church doorway from the 12C, this time in central France, and we can see that although it is more stylish than the one in Guiting Power, it has many similarities. Like St Michael's, the church was drastically altered, here in the 17thC, but again the doorway was incorporated in the later work.

The decoration of the arch orders is very elaborate, and it's remarkable to think that it was done more than 800 years ago by men who probably lived in little more than mud and straw hovels! The style of decoration with the polylobal inner arch is quite common to this area, whereas the ball ornaments in the fourth order are more unusual. Taken with the Welmy Six a few years ago.

1952 Tasei Koki Welmy Six, f4.5/75mm Terionar lens, X2 yellow filter. Fomapan 100 in Caffenol C, 10 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

Vintage 120 Camera. SNCF TD 141 740 at Lavaufranche, 23600, Creuse.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:29:25 +0000

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Had to be a train photo in this little set! Taken with a 1952 Welmy Six, - another regrettable sale - which had a wonderful Terionar lens, a triplet of remarkable sharpness. This locomotive has now left the area for more northern parts of France, but I enjoyed several trips behind it when it was based in Limoges.

1952 Welmy Six, f4.5/75mm Terionar lens, X2 yellow filter. Fomapan Ultra 200 in Caffenol C, 10 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

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nobody@ipernity.com (giovanegian) — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:59:00 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (giovanegian) — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:15:02 +0000

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Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois, 23800 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:09:02 +0000

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Church and State! Here is the church seen from the main street, and you can see the way that it is the most prominent building in this part of town. The tower was built at the beginning of the 15thC, as much for a fortification as for religious purposes, and indeed, for some time it served as a prison during the middle ages, as well as the base camp of the feudal lord and his entourage!

The houses are much later, 18thC I guess, and the one nearest us actually has a pathway to the church running beneath the bedrooms, although there are the remains of what I think was an old bakery behind, so maybe it was the baker's house - who knows!

1948 Kodak Tourist 120, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in Thornton's Two Bath, 6 mins stand in A & B @21C Scanned @ 1200dpi on Epson V500.

Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois, 23800 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:36:15 +0000

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The church of Saint Sulpice was built in Romanesque style in the 12th century, but has since been extensively altered, most notably by the the fortification of the choir and eastern gable sometime in the 14thC, and the construction of the massive tower around 1400.

Like most of these small villages and towns in the area, the church is the dominant building, but there are quite a few other interesting old buildings in the town. More play with stand developing two baths, this time with the Kodak Tourist for transport!

1948 Kodak Tourist 120, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Foma 400 in Thornton's Two Bath, 6 mins stand in A & B @21C Scanned @ 1200dpi on Epson V500.

Beyond Montluçon, Commentry, 03600 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:13:48 +0000

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This was the end of the last stage of this little steam excursion, up into the western slopes of the Massif Central, to the town of Commentry, and the train was hauled from Montluçon by two of these American built locomotives, one at each end.

It's a steep gradient from Montluçon, and the sound of the exhaust of the two locomotives reverberating off the rock faces as they climbed was truly spectacular! Over a thousand of these locos were built in America and Canada at the end of WW2, to replace French locomotives destroyed during the war, this one was built by Alco in Schenectady, NewYork in 1945, and is one of only four still serviceable.

1952 Welmy Six, f4.5/75mm Terionar lens, X2 yellow filter. Fomapan Ultra 200 in Caffenol C, 10 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

Start of a Journey, Guèret, 23000 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:03:44 +0000

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To continue this "excursion in reverse," this is where I joined the train. Taken six years ago, here is TD 141 740 arriving in Guèret station from Limoges, ready for the run up to Montluçon.

Notice that there is no diesel back up locomotive, which it seems is now mandatory for steam locomotive hauled trains on public lines in France, but not when this photo was taken. I used a Welmy Six folding camera, which I have since sold, and regret doing so, - it was a delightful little camera, made in Japan - an excellent copy of a Zeiss Ikonta.

1952 Welmy Six, f4.5/75mm Terionar lens, X2 yellow filter. Fomapan Ultra 200 in Caffenol C, 10 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

Viaduc, Busseau-sur-Creuse, 23150 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:07:40 +0000

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To get to Parsac-Gouzon the line must first cross the deep, densely wooded valley of the river Creuse, and it does so on this spectacular structure. Opened to traffic in 1863, the steel girder viaduct carries the line from the junction at Saint Sulpice Laurière to Montluçon, and onwards across the Massif Central towards Lyon. Built by the Paris Orleans Railway, the total span is 339m (1,112ft), and the height above the river Creuse is 56.5m (185ft).

Local people often understandably attribute this work to Gustave Eiffel, but it was actually designed by another eminent civil engineer, and contemporary of Eiffel, Wilhelm Nördling. When it was built it had two tracks, but one of these has now been lifted.

Taken with a 1948 Kodak Tourist 620, converted to 120 film. f4.5/105mm coated Kodak Anaston, X2 yellow filter, Rollei RPX400 @800 in Caffenol C + iodized salt, 20-20-6-6 Scanned @1200dpi on Epson V500

SNCF 141 TD 740 at Gare Parsac-Gouzon, 23230 Fr.

nobody@ipernity.com (Mikeinlagardette) — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:15:47 +0000

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Following on from the last photo, this is how I travelled up to Montluçon! Of course, this is not the usual motive power used on this line, (!) but a special train going from Limoges, to the annual Festirail meeting in Montlucon.

This locomotive was built by SFCM de Denain in 1932, for the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est, it was one of 42 locomotives built for hauling heavy suburban trains in the Greater Paris area, which it did until it was finally taken out of revenue service in 1967.

Steam trains cannot go very far before they need to have their water supply refreshed, and here we have stopped at the little station of Parsac-Gouzon to re-fill the tanks, which also gives people a chance to walk about, - and take photos of the locomotive!

1948 Kodak Tourist I, f4.5/105mm Anaston lens, x2 yellow filter. Shanghai GP3 in Thornton's Two Bath, 4+4 mins @21C. Scanned @1200dpi on Epson 500