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I’m finally getting through various equipment issues – the Leicaflex is back from repair, the enlarger is aligned, the broken Rodagon enlarging lens is on its way back to Germany for repair, and my friends at National Camera hooked me up with a Nikor 80mm lens to do some medium format work in the mean time. It was really satisfying printing that first 6×6 negative and having something real come out of it.

Now the problem is I’ve made a bunch of 11×14″ prints that I can’t scan to share. I setup a makeshift copystand to take pictures of them for now, but they kind of suck, so I’ll be making some smaller prints to share this weekend.

The copystand:

This was the first 6×6 neg I enlarged – It’s a car I shot at the JJ Hill car show we (Bentley \ Maserati) sponsored last year, but unfortunately my hand was not steady and the image was blurry.

Jaguar

The next 6×6 enlargement went much better:

Studebaker

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This is made up of 30 pictures of a poster I used to have.

When I was in Junior & Senior Highschool, a friend of mine’s parents owned a body shop in Glen Lake. We used to ride our bikes there and just generally raise hell. Behind the shop there was a little dirt lot where they would store cars waiting for parts, their boat, motorhome, and just general junk. On one side there was these two old Buicks that were just sitting there, looking cool.

Two more after the jump:

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Well, I finally feel like I got my darkroom to a place where I can print anytime I want. I still need to replace some old chemicals, and pickup some more storage jugs, but I can setup ready to print in under an hour, and teardown in 20. I decided to start tonight with some 35mm negs I’ve been wanting to print for a while. I’m happy with how they turned out. This photo was taken with my Leicaflex.

3 more photos after the jump

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