I visited Petra(Jordan)on a day trip with Anna and Shay(a photog friend from work).
It was awesome.The place is wonderfull.The light there is horrible by all acounts – I think the best way to go is a medium format camera,wide lens,telephoto lens,tripod,a case of film and a free week.
I will drop the color films in the lab tomorrow.The BW will wait.It is harldy a BW place so I shot just two 120 across rolls.I dont have the neg sleeves for 120 and the shop wants 190 NIS(45$)for a hundred.
Due to a viruswormkoreas new bombtrojanaxis of eviltoo much porn.
I hope I’ll be able to save the edited versions of photos I haven’t burnt yet.
I will go to Petra(The Necropolis – a day trip) in a couple of days.
I will probably take the nikon with lenses for color and the yashicamat for b&w(a zorki for backup).This is the first real field test for the CLA’d Yashicamat.
Gimped my way to monochrome leveling
The best colors are still black and white
the film was a fuji proplus II 100@120 or so(1/100 speed instead of 1/125)
A friend at work got a film scanner.He offered to scan some of my films.
The color is off,but I think it’s the lens(I gave him another film from a lens I know to compare).
Lots of dust.I used the Polaroid software to remove some dust and it softened the files.I am by no means a friend of technology.
The film is a test one so nothing spectacular.
Got some cheap across in 120. The yashicamat will be fed.
Finished reading Meir Shalev’s Blue Mountain(Sipur Russi).Excellent.
the setup is like the one in the Dresden post.
Yesternight I printed my first prints.I am never going to print BW in a minilab.
I need much more practice and dust is a problem with my improvised crooked cardboard holder but it is still excellent.
Some pics I took in Dresden,which I visited for a few hours from Prague to see the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister(Hmmmmmmmm. Albrecht Dürer ).It was probably the best 5 hours I spent in Germany.
The Grünes Gewölbe was briliant.The ultimate “fuck you” to the 17 century commoner.
The Dresdner Frauenkirche is a revelation for any Vonegut fan.
Color was shot on FUJI X-TRA 400 with a nikon fm-2 and sigma 28/1.8 aspherical(first gen.); This film scans admirably and has less grain then PROPLUS II 100.
B&W was shot with pentax k1000;50/2A SMC on kodak TMAX 100 andor 400(maybe both);
12 min in tetenal ultrafin liquid 1+20 at 20 deg Celcius.
The file names are the picture names.
Mazal Tov
http://thanatos.net/galleries/categories.php?cat_id=1&sessionid=25145f6a6c149dab804ffbea0484f23b
is a site dealing with post mortem photography which was common in victorian times. Includes babies and group portraits.
I wonder how that would work today with the clash betweebn political corectness and media whoring.
For the goths among you.
Since I haven’t been scanning new stuff(and there is new stuff),and I don’t want to bore my readers I am posting some o my Barcelona pics(from a week I spent there a 
year and a half ago).All the color is crappy Kodak consumer 400 film (with a strong red when appropriate and inappropriate)shot with a practice mtl3(now dead) and a 50/1.8 Pentacon automatic(used for macro nowadays),the BW is ilford pan 400 in expired tetenal 1+10 
exposed at 800 with a canonet 17 GIII QL (which I could’t like so I traded it for my nikon mount sigma 28/1.8 and never regretted since-it was a great lens trapped in a shitty body with a pentagonal diaphragm). The girl and the Miro statue are a crop,the monks statues are from Monserat.
The scratches on the BW film are probably my fault and the borders on the color ones are just bad scanning were scanned on a Fuji frontier to 2-5 MB Bmp’s(didn’t know any better then).
I will publish a select batch from Prague anytime soon
My new toys!I got them from Darkavanger(Massimiliano Mortillaro) from RFF for a very nice price(the lens might need a cla so I’ll probably send it to Oleg Khalyavin just in case). It was made in 1977 not by KMZ(it is a VOOMZ I think). I love the field of view and DOF. I practicly dont need to focus(only at very close distances). I just need to see how much to compensate for parralax and it will become my walkaround lens.
I finally moved in with Anna,and started setting up my darkroom.It is 80% complete. I just need to transfer electricity and add a shelf for the chemical baths. I also need a larger easel,decent negative holders(I improvised a 35mm one – no point thinking of 6×6 with a 5×7 inch easel) and to hook up the red filter.
I am happy we decided against cable TV – we read much more and communicate much better. We listen to much more music. We have 1-2 hours of free time a day more then we used to – and we didint watch much TV to begin with!
I read Closing Time by Josef Heller (and liked it but not as much as I likes Catch 22),Watched La Dolce Vita (and loved it.Made me want a Rolleiflex – but that beside the point – and out of budget) and finished reading In Cold Blood(Truman Capote). The movie Capote connects wonderfully with the book. Now reading The Dance Of Ghengis Cohn by Romain Gary.
