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Phound Photos Volume 16

Kodak Gold 200 film found in in a Ricoh KR-30SP.

NM plates. Could be a state building or one of the national labs.

Interesting building. That’s a big chimney.

This one spans part of two frames.

Not too interesting but one of these days… Bigfoot or a politician zipping up his human suit.

52 Cameras: #178 — Ricoh XR-2s

This is the same Kodak High Contrast Copy Film I tested in the Nikon FA. Beautiful but challenging stuff. I shot ~ 1/2 roll and got 13 images. Not 13 subjects since I was bracketing. With the film speed all the way down to ISO 12, the XR-2s doesn’t allow exposure compensation so some I shot at Auto (aperture priority) ISO 12 and some in metered manual at ISO 6. Developed in HC-110 dilution H for 11.5 minutes. Still too much agitation so I had to crop in a bit to avoid the over-development near the sprocket holes.

Pot & rock: f/8 at 1/2 second

Watering can on stump: f/4 at 1/15

Agave: f/2.8 at 1/8

A fun bit of history – the receipt for the zoom lens in the kit.

In 1982, the Tokina zoom was HK$700 from Liu’s Camera & Radio

This was during the period when the Hong Kong Dollar had a floating value in relation to the US Dollar. According to the Federal Reserve, the exchange on 16 August 1982 was HK$ 6.1350 to 1 US$. The lens was the equivalent of US$114. But, a 1982 US$ is worth US$2.67 today so the lens was the equivalent of US$304. For a constant aperture 100-300mm zoom, that’s a pretty good deal.

52 Cameras: # 163 — Ricoh AF-5

I’m going to run some black and white through it. I know I can get better out of this camera.

Varying degrees of color correction and noise reduction. Resized to 1024 on the long side.

Another photo of the sunflowers at the co-op in Santa Fe.

The ancient ristra on the front porch.

A plethora of pussycats.

52 Cameras: # 136 — Ricoh 500G

It’s been a while. Life gets busy sometimes.

Another car in Silverton, CO.

Love those old fish mouth Buicks.

Near our campsite at Little Molas Lake.

The workout from hell — hiking up scree on Engineer Mtn.

52 Cameras: #86 – Ricoh FF-8WR

You never know what will show up when you have to by a “lot” of cameras to get what you’re looking for. I get to give something back too, since there’s bugger-all on the web and I got the manual.