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Cheap and often overlooked - but great - analog cameras: the SLR
Bjarke Ahlstrand
The (cheap) alternative to plastic point and shoot cameras — plastic SLR cameras: The Single Reflex Lens camera! Canon and Nikon (and many others) produced several single lens reflex cameras with all-auto and autofocus features, far more advanced than the simpler point and shoot cameras, and with the ability to mount both cheap and quality lenses!So we decided to shoot a roll of Kodak Porta 160 and Portra 400 in a Canon EOS 50E and a Nikon F90X on a grey February 2022 Sunday. We picked a few very affordable lenses; a dirt cheap zoom (Canon 28-80mm f3.5-5.6) and some primes (Canon 50mm f1.8, Nikon...
Ilford Ultra Large Format campaign 2021
Bjarke Ahlstrand
50MM LEICA LENS TEST SEPTEMBER 2020
Bjarke Ahlstrand Lens test
50MM LEICA LENS TEST SEPTEMBER 2020
FILM: LOMOGRAPHY BABYLON 13
CAMERA: LEICA M2
ALL LENSES SHOT WIDE OPEN
@ 1/1000TH OF A SECOND
PROFESSIONALLY DEVELOPED
SCANNED ON HASSELBLAD FLEXTIGHT X1
Dust on the brain
Bjarke Ahlstrand scanner
We do a lot of high quality, high resolution scans on our Hasselblad X1 high end scanner. It undoubtably brings the best out of negatives (and postives), but the downsize is that all microscopic dust particles, scratches etc. also appear very sharp when you zoom in to 100%. Therefore Mikkel just did a small video to show how he does dust removal in Photoshop. Dust on the brain -- dust removal on high resolution scans from bjarke ahlstrand on Vimeo. The negative was shot on a Hasselblad Xpan with 45mm f4 on expired (1994!) Kodak Technical Pan film, rated...
One Of Many Wedding Portraits
Jesper Bruus Pedersen
OOMC's Managing Dictator got married. Again. This time around he decided to ask Denmark's best photographers to interpret that special connection between the two star-crossed lovers reaching out to the beast with many names. The results were exhibited at Zeppelin, Copenhagen, on the wedding day, May 20, MMXVII on large prints. Here are the low resolution screen versions. Bjarke & Natalie I by Marko Rantanen70 x 88 cmToyo 810M 8x10” Field Camera + Voigtländer 240mm f3.5 Helomar + Fomapan 100Marko Rantanen (b. 1973) is a Finnish-born artist, specializing in both commercial and artistic photography, and video productions. Marko is a regular at OOMC, and...