This is my harvest of medium format photographs from my last trip to Berlin, taken on the weekend when I went to see The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Morbid Catacombs Fest and Wooden Elephant playing Björk. And with "this" I mean exactly this picture above! Well, almost... because in a way this is actually only a part of the whole photograph.
My stock of expired medium format rollfilm is a lottery with some serious blanks. I shot two films with my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera, which is always a bit of a hassle, since I have to use my changing bag to respool the film from the 120 to the slightly thinner 620 roll. Even if you don't know what I'm talking about: Just imagine a guy sitting just next to the US embassy beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a black bag in his lap, his hands hidden inside it, doing some stuff in there while rolling his eyes in annoyance, because it's super hot and he appearantly needs more than one try for whatever he's doing. I'm pretty sure, I must have had the attention of several surveilance cams...
The film I was preparing was a Svema FM 64 (Sovjet/Ukrainian manufacturer), expired in October 1994. And it was one of those rare cases, where I got absoluty nothing. So all those pictures taken with it only exist as faint viewfinder memories of mine now.
I scanned it anyway:
My stock of expired medium format rollfilm is a lottery with some serious blanks. I shot two films with my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera, which is always a bit of a hassle, since I have to use my changing bag to respool the film from the 120 to the slightly thinner 620 roll. Even if you don't know what I'm talking about: Just imagine a guy sitting just next to the US embassy beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a black bag in his lap, his hands hidden inside it, doing some stuff in there while rolling his eyes in annoyance, because it's super hot and he appearantly needs more than one try for whatever he's doing. I'm pretty sure, I must have had the attention of several surveilance cams...
The film I was preparing was a Svema FM 64 (Sovjet/Ukrainian manufacturer), expired in October 1994. And it was one of those rare cases, where I got absoluty nothing. So all those pictures taken with it only exist as faint viewfinder memories of mine now.
I scanned it anyway:
The second roll was not only a pain in the ass to respool before putting it into my 1950's box camera, but it was also incredibly hard to wind when it was in there. No wonder, because appearantly the film folded itself several times, which caused one of the weirdest photographic accidents I've ever had.
The result is this partly mirrored multiple exposure with each frame of it getting a little darker (from bottom to top):
The result is this partly mirrored multiple exposure with each frame of it getting a little darker (from bottom to top):
Obviously I like this somehow. But was it worth paying for two developments and not having so many other pictures? And couldn't this have happened on a frame that doesn't show the Office of the Federal Chancellor, which is occupied by historically antisocial incompetence right now?
Blimey, it is what it is. So for the sake of completeness here's the partly shredded rest of that film, a Svema Foto 250, expired in December 1990 by the way, for all you analogue super nerds out there:
Blimey, it is what it is. So for the sake of completeness here's the partly shredded rest of that film, a Svema Foto 250, expired in December 1990 by the way, for all you analogue super nerds out there:
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