It’s HERE It’s HERE!

[ennuipoet]

Santa Claus…err the mail lady…has arrived with my present to me for this Yule Tide Season. I found a Crown Graphic on the Ebay for the right price and bought. Usually when I find one at the price I did (Below 200 average for a good Crown is 250-350), I flip for cash but this one is so pretty and in such great shape I am keeping it. I bought some film holders and will head to B&H for 4×5 film (I am thinking Ilford because it comes in 25 sheet boxes for just a hair over a dollar a sheet, where as Kodak is 100 sheet boxes for just a hair under a buck a sheet but I am just starting out here. Sorry Kodak, I would love to help but a hundred bucks a pop for film is hard to swallow.) Between this and the Canonet QL 17 GIII I bought just after Turkey Day, 2013 is looking very Retro indeed.

I will post some picks of the Crown a little later on, I am still busy pretending to be a newsie from the 1940’s at the moment. I need a fedora and little slip of paper that says “Press” tucked in it.

[nobigdeal]

You know Instagram has filters that look the same for free? LOL!

Congrats on the purchase!

[ennuipoet]

You know Instagram has filters that look the same for free? LOL!

Congrats on the purchase!

Perhaps I will use Instagram* to take selfies of me using the Crown…it would be ironically meta.

Skinny jeans here I come.

😛

*No I won’t

[nobigdeal]

That would be epic!

[orionid]

Perhaps I will use Instagram* to take selfies of me using the Crown…it would be ironically meta.

Skinny jeans here I come.

That’s so 2011. You already missed it.

[Yoyo]

Perhaps I will use Instagram* to take selfies of me using the Crown…it would be ironically meta.

Skinny jeans here I come.

That’s so 2011. You already missed it.

Yeah, skinny jeans have gotten even skinnier and ended up as jeggings. It’s like the retro fashion of the ’80s had retreated even further back to the ’70s.

(It’s a bit peculiar having spent last year in Europe to see fashion and music trends end up in America a year later.)

[Yugoboy]

Dude… I was wearing skinny jeans long before it was cool…

Hell, I had students (proponents of the so-baggy-they’re-falling-down school of fashion) ask me why I wore such skinny pants…

(I wanted to say it was so I wouldn’t look like a gangsta douchebag, but stuck with “they’re comfortable to me.”)

[ennuipoet]

I could not wedge myself into a pair of “skinny” jeans if my life depended on it. It’s not that I am morbidly obese (though I ain’t small) but my frame is…well let’s put it in a camera term, I’m Full Frame and don’t fit with a Cropped Sensor.

[ennuipoet]

My film holders arrived today, along with a special surprise: 75 sheets of the Kodak Ektachrome 64. Now normally this would be a super bonus, except they are, according to the packaging, E3 processing which hasn’t been done in 40 years. I had a lot of fun identifying the film from the notch code, and since the can’t reasonably processed, using a sheet a trainer for loading the film in the holders.

Still, if anyone has a batch of old E-3 Chemicals sitting a dusty basement of their out of business photo lab, or finds a wormhole to the early 1970’s let me know.

[nobigdeal]

My film holders arrived today, along with a special surprise: 75 sheets of the Kodak Ektachrome 64. Now normally this would be a super bonus, except they are, according to the packaging, E3 processing which hasn’t been done in 40 years. I had a lot of fun identifying the film from the notch code, and since the can’t reasonably processed, using a sheet a trainer for loading the film in the holders.

Still, if anyone has a batch of old E-3 Chemicals sitting a dusty basement of their out of business photo lab, or finds a wormhole to the early 1970’s let me know.

http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/e4.htm (expensive!!) or maybe play with some cross processing? If you can even do that with E-3, I’m not sure.

[sleeping]

You can almost certainly develop it as B&W, most any color film can be developed that way. This thread has a recipe for e3 developer too: http://photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00DISU

[ennuipoet]

You can almost certainly develop it as B&W, most any color film can be developed that way. This thread has a recipe for e3 developer too: http://photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00DISU

I was reading that thread earlier and trying to decide whether it was worth it to even attempt b&w developing. Aside from the “Cool” factor, it’s not really worth burning the chemicals. Not knowing how old the film really is, quite sure it hasn’t been properly stored and if the packaging is still light proof, I think I will just consign this film to the dustbin. Or, sell it on ebay. 🙂

[ennuipoet]

The whole Kit put together and ready to go:

http://freeversephotography.com/freeversephotoblog/2012/12/11/anti-instagra/#

[lokisbong]

The whole Kit put together and ready to go:

http://freeversephotography.com/freeversephotoblog/2012/12/11/anti-instagra/#

That’s a pretty cool looking kit.

as a side note there sure is a lot of ads for viagra and cialis and a few other ads at the top of that page. lol.

[fluffybunny]

as a side note there sure is a lot of ads for viagra and cialis and a few other ads at the top of that page. lol.

Try mozilla/seamonkey/firefox with “AdBlockPlus” addon. I don’t see anything but Free Verse when I go there.

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