An abandoned elderly home. The beds are empty, the plants have died. Shot with my Mamiya dsx500 on Spector color 200 film. There must have been something wrong with the film, because there are brown blotches and lines on most of the images.

An abandoned sewing thread factory. Immense halls, one after another, all empty. Suddenly, we come across a washing machine. Running. "Someone is still living here". Our cue to get out.

The panamate, a really cheap all-plastic crappy panorama camera, shooting a horizontal half of a 35mm negative. The box makes all kinds of outrageous claims like "A genuine dual function camera!", "Cheaper than disposable!", "Time after time!" and "Just aim and shoot!", awesome!

I shot 2 rolls of Ferrania Solaris 200 with this plastic wonder of technology and cross-processed them in HC-110. The developed negatives show how crappy this camera really is, the pre-set shutter speed is obviously to slow, as almost all pictures have some motion blur going on, and there's some serious abberation on the left en right side of each image. I do enjoy the result though, and I'm really starting to like the look of colour film cross-processed as b/w.

An abandoned tilefactory. Half-demolished.

The Agfa Isoly junior is a really trashy camera, I got mine on a flea market for a few euros and I had to tape it in several places to prevent massive lightleaks. It's a medium format viewfinder camera (Shooting 4x4 negatives) with 2 apertures (cloudy/sunny) and a close up lens (2-4m). The Junior is the cheapest and crappiest of all isolys, but it's still a fun camera to shoot moody pictures with lots of abberation

Shot on shanghai GP3 film

And this is what happens when you don't advance the film properly.

An abandoned wooden warehouse, built in the late 19th century.

Another abandoned hospital. This one was weird, it had a really creepy, desolate atmosphere, I really didn't feel that at ease there. The operation theatres made me forget all about that though, those lamps are beautiful.

About a month ago, I bought a lot of 50 rolls of Ferrania Solaris 200 film on a whim for real cheap (can't go wrong with about 30 cents a roll). The only reason I bought this trashy film was to play around and experiment with, I especially wanted to try cross-processing colour film in b/w chemistry.

Fast forward to a few days ago, I finally shot a roll of this Ferrania film with my Adox Golf IIa. I didn't put much thought in the shots, as I figured the developing would probably fail anyway.

As I didn't really have any reference times for developing colour film (let alone Ferrania film) in b/w chemistry, I just guessed. I developed for 20 minutes in HC-110 dilution H and I was glad to see that that actually was a good guess. The negatives are quite grainy, but the contrast is ok and the images are clear (although not very sharp, but that's probably more due to the camera than anything else).

The original Golfs are nice folding cameras, but the IIa is more of a brick-like chunk of a camera than an elegant folder, it's design is nice and semi-classy though. It's got a totally inaccurate guess-o-matic focusing system (1m to infinity), 7 apertures (and an auto setting), 4 shutters speeds (/125, /60, /30 and B). There's also a selenium light meter which will (when selected) set the aperture automatically.

More Olympus pen shots! 3 diptychs and a triptych this time. I really like the slightly off colours of expired kodak gold.

Solargraphy is a form of long-exposure photography to capture the paths of the sun across the sky. Photographic paper is used instead of film because it's a lot less light sensitive.

Two months ago I decided to give this technique a try, so I made two pinhole cameras and loaded them with old agfa photographic paper. I installed one on the roof of the building I live in and one the balcony. This is the image I found in the one on the balcony (the one on the roof seemed to have disappeared somewhere at the end of march). This image has been exposed from 01/03/10 until 03/05/10.

It turned out better than I expected, there's a good amount of traces of the sun visible and the surroundings are clear enough too. It seems the camera moved a bit somewhere halfway trough though.

Fleamarket find: a Vredeborch Felica. A really compact medium format camera that shoots 4.5 x 6 negatives. It's got all the right features: Built-in yellow filter, 2 apertures (sunny/cloudy), 3 shutter speeds (/25 /50 and B), flash sync and a three step guess-o-matic focusing system. It's trashy but I like it.