Rock Collection (GSB)

by Paul Talbot

The label on the back says, in part, R16 (Canada) / 5, but also says it was taken on the University of Texas campus on July 1, 2003.  Apparently I had some film to use up after a 2003 trip to Canada.  I usually think of GSB as meaning Graduate School of Business in the context of UT – Austin, but that doesn’t jive with my memory of which building had this rock collection outside it.

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Jets

by Paul Talbot

Shot at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas.  It seemed like a good opportunity for a “through the window” MF3D image.  I used these jets for shooting test rolls in Sputniks that were, to one extent or another, “fixed up” for sale via RMM.  I don’t recall whether this was from such a test roll or something I shot just for fun.  Might or might not even have been a Sputnik.

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Zach Horton A34 Submission

by Zach Horton

I know many/most of you from the Dragon Folio, but this is my first submission in Folio A.  I’m happy to be here with you all! I’ve submitted four completely unrelated slides…

Jess and Jon: Pond

This was candid shot I snapped while visiting my sister and her husband in New Hampshire toward the end of the winter. They took a moment to escape our full family and contemplate their favorite pond together. They didn’t know I took this until I presented a slide to them as a gift. This is an M-Chrome, so I could afford to give a copy away and keep a copy for myself!

Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Mamiya 65mm
Film: 65mm 250D cine film (IMAX)

Atom Smasher “Love You”

This is the ruined remains of the Westinghouse Atom Smasher, which pushed the boundaries of atomic energy research in the 1940s. The Mamiya 55mm lens is one of my favorites.

Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Mamiya 55mm
Film: Fujichrome RMS

 

Cranes

I hope this hyper blows your mind!  Be warned!  The main subject here is mounted perfectly legally, but by the background it exceeds normal on-film deviation, and the general level of complexity of this image can really confuse the brain. Some people can’t fuse this comfortably, but it is one of my recent favorites.  This was shot on the special BW IMAX film that Kodak made for the film Oppenheimer. The production gifted me the remaining stock.  It’s a joy to work with, and makes excellent M-Chromes, which is of course its purpose: to be contact printed into prints for cinematic exhibition. Only in writing this post have I realized that I submitted my first version of this slide, with an open mask. I later created another copy and masked it to a shorter vertical, which really helps. Oops- I put the older version into the folio!  Oh well.

Camera: Rollei 6006
Lens: 150mm
Film: 65mm Double-X cine film (IMAX)

 

Magic Bus

This was just a casual snap on my way to work one day, but my partner Vicky and I just love the color in this one (which I can’t seem to replicate in the digital scan). This is shot on Kodak’s amazing 500T cinema film, in 65mm IMAX form, using one of my favorite MF3D lenses, the Super Angulon 47mm. This is another M-Chrome.

Camera: Mercury Stereo 12
Lens: Super Angulon 47mm
Film: 65mm 500T cine film (IMAX)

 

COVID Road Trip #2 – The 2nd Leg Of The North American Loop Tour

by Steven Lederman

I’m keeping my loop a33 images in the folio for loop a34, as they weren’t seen due to the folio being called home early by John Thurston. This is also to keep the folio moving in a timely fashion. I also don’t have anything new mounted yet!

Here’s the description from loop a33:
My second Stateside road trip after COVID was in April of 2022; “Old Car City” in White, Georgia. 4700 vehicles from 1918 to 1972 slowly being reclaimed by nature. It’s well-documented on YouTube.
“Twitter Barn” – Ever wonder where Elon Mollusk got the inspiration for his inventive re-naming of the Twitter platform? It was from this very barn, somewhere near the border of two States, on the way down to Georgia. TL-120-55, and some expired colour film. Could have been Provia 100F.
“Old Car City – Ford Detail” – I think this is an emblematic example of my work. Sputnik, Superpan 200.
“’50 Buick OCC” – I love the 1950 Buick. GM only made that grill style for one year. Sputnik, Superpan 200.
“’50 Buick Old Car City, GA” – A different 1950 Buick. Shallow depth of field, scratch on the film. Sputnik, Superpan 200.

All images home-processed using a JOBO CPP2 unit, with Unicolor E6 or Fomapan R chemistry.

CVLE Bike Fest

by Boris Starosta

A couple years ago, we had a new bike race organized in my home town of Charlottesville. I like this subject matter for the challenge of capturing the essence of the sport, though it is also a bittersweet experience to stand on the sidelines with a camera, as I have several decades of bike racing experience, and I do miss participating (my last racing was ten years ago, and I’m fairly sure I finally quit for good).

I knew this shoot was going to be “low yield,” but I love these kinds of dynamic images in 3d. Few people have shot this style in MF3d, and it’s no surprise, because getting a good shot – where at least a few parts of the image are not blurred – is basically a crapshoot. Indeed, out of four rolls shot with two spuds, I got at most three or four images that meet that standard! For more backstory (and images) from this shoot, please visit my patreon page about it here.

There are several races during the day, but only two of the races have large fields of experienced riders, riding tightly packed, which is the most exciting. Thus, I shot with two Sputnik cameras, because during any given race, there’s no time to reload the camera; that gave me twelve exposures for each of those two races. Even before I started shooting, I tried a couple of different ways to aim and pan.  I discovered very quickly that trying to look down into the mirror finder was not going to work – too confusing!  I shot about half the material with my eye at the camera, looking through the “sport finder,” and the other half with the camera more or less at arms length, held out in front of me, aiming by “feel” – I felt this helped me keep the panning motion of the cameras very smooth.  I used shutter speeds of 1/10 and 1/25 second, which was about right for the camera apertures of f32 and f22.

Sputnik sport finder

(For those unfamiliar with it, here’s the “sport finder” mode in the Sputnik.  Note one hazard of using the sport finder: because you are not using the middle lens to aim, you have no feedback about whether or not the lens caps have been removed;-)