Anastasiya

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

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


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).

military metaphors

military police

canon

sentinel

nikon

the eagle have left the nest
Both leica M3’s went to Alexz for further CLA(to Youxin Ye).
The lens is at Sherry Krauters.

I shot a couple of rolls on Tel Aviv today.Bought a 85 filter for the sigma(to heighten contrast).

Film is drying as we speak.The Brita water filter makes it much cleaner.

Looking towards a brighter future


one is on trix@1600 in diafine and one is plusx(more likely) or tmax 100 in tetenal.

I got a LG 1900J LCD monitor. I cant look at mine anymore – the colors are wrong and the settings are hardly adjustable. It also kills my eyes.

I have a potential buyer for the yashicamat.
The summaron reached Sherry Krauter(so there goes my yashicamat money).
I also got a negative holder for 35mm(for free!) for my meopta(thank Payasam from RFF).My hands itch!Must get easel!

Adi

This is Adi(emphasis on the I). We served in the army together. She was kind enough to pose for me.

Trix@1600


Watched “six string samurai” it’s so deeply idiotic it’s brilliant. I want horn rimmed glasses.

I read all the six of the Akira mangas.I dislike comics and manga but this one is brilliant.