50/1.4ai

the seaside

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The sea is gorgeous now.

Went for a walk about town(Tel Aviv and Jaffa) with Noogie from darkroom forum on
d-spot.Great fun.Shot a couple of rolls.

I now started using two RF’s,both with 35/2.8 and loaded with the same film(plus-x is a recent favorite). They are faster to change then reload one camera,and then I reload both over coffee or something. I shot all day long with no meter. I dont use it much but now it is dead I feel it’s absence.

I finished reading “Chronicles Volume One – Bob Dylan” and “Bound for Glory” by Woodie Guthrie several days ago.Both are very good.

Adi in color

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the photos in this series go gradualy brigher.

the color is all quirky because the film is expired,underexposed and under hot lights. I generally like the result. I want to shoot her more. Cant wait to get the mamiya.

The Leica m3 is done and will be shipped within a week so I need to start thinking about selling the canon 7 body – any takers?

INGMAR BERGMAN is dead at 89,may the gods rest his melancholic, northern soul.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI is dead at 94. same day.I just watched Blow Up recently and have the Passanger on my HD.

Thank you

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Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or “starlet”

Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Why are you hiding, darling?
(I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling).

Where are you riding, Dolores Haze?
What make is the magic carpet?
Is a Cream Cougar the present craze?
And where are you parked, my car pet?

Vladimir V. Nabokov

Anastasiya

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Let me tell you a story…
Some time ago a couple of friends visited me. we drank some(LOTS) of wine and had fun. This resulted in two sets.
One of Vlad(daytime trix@1600 diafine), and one of Anastasia(night time tmax400@1600 tetenal). Both are happy with the results and want more.




the piercing eyes in the third just hit you like a sniper bullet.

I closed a deal on a CLA’d mamiya M645J,sekor 80/2.8,two inserts,non metering prism and grip for half it’s price. Even if I dont like it I can always resell it for this price.

Who wants to feed me until the end of the month?

not all men start as equals – but all end up in the same patch of dirt

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The pictures were taken within a couple of months,with different cameras within 100 meters of each other. Both men have no names(at least for me – as I dont read the language).One is a brittishcommonwealth WW1 infantrycavalry enlisted man who came to die here for queen and country and the other a migrant worker(?).

I would appreceate a translation of the tombstone. I also don’t recognise the letters – is it chinese?

Since the Rabbinical Council(Who live of our taxes and dont serve in the army) is in charge of births,deaths and weddings – Israel still burries non jews(this definition is antiquted and racist – some people who were prosecuted abroad for being jewish,served in the army and got killed there werent buried appropriately)in another patch,usually in a less then honorable way.

Adi in dark tones

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After a couple of days working with the new monitor my observations are:
1)the contrast is decent but not great – worse then my old viewsonic crt
2)the sync. rate is slow
3)the picture changes dramaticly when you change your angle of view

nevertheless it is comfortable and enough for consumer usage.

Another thing I discovered is that plus-x looks like crap in diafine(@400).