Carl Zeiss Distagon 21
            /2.8 retrofocus lens

... all about analogue photography ...

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... Welcome to my website about non-digital photography ...

 

selfportrait photo of Bert

(self portrait, November 2019, with my Yashica 44A camera)

 

Hello,

I'm an amateur photographer since 2001. I'm living at "De Veluwe" in The Netherlands. I prefer to practice analogue photography like using old, manual cameras and lenses, developing film in homebrew Caffenol, building wooden pinhole cameras, making paper negatives and printing with historical processes (alt-photo). So that's what this website is all about.

Enjoy!

Bert from Holland

image TLR camera

 


Although this site will be under continuous construction, I hope you still can find some intersting items about:



Update June 2nd, 2020: I've started a separate page about "Photogenic Drawing, Salt printing and the Calotype procecesses", the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1977).



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self portrait

(self portrait, March 2017, Olympus Pen-EE on Fomapan 100 @ 200 ISO in Ilfotec DD-X)

 


I'm a member/participant of:

* International Society for Analogue Photography (I.S.F.A.Ph.)

* Ultra Low ISO Club

* Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

* Deventer Foto Kring

* Nederlandse Fotobond

* Half Frame Shooters

logo I.S.F.A.Ph logo: ULIC group logo:
        Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day logo: Deventer Fotokring Logo:
        Nederlandse Fotobond logo: Half Frame Shooters

 


Wisdom of life (by C&H):

CALVIN: "The world is a complicated place, Hobbes."
HOBBES: "Whenever it seems that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner."

 


"Have fun and catch that light beam!"
Bert from Holland

drawing of a Hasselblad camera

my blog: http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl
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"... avoiding the common illusion that creative work depends on equipment alone ..." (Ansel Adams in his book "The Camera" 1980)

"... I enjoy vintage cameras as “users,” rather than imprisoning them in some display case"

"... It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight ...

"... but I just love the good natured mirth you provided ..." (a complement I enjoyed receiving)

 

(The lens scematics in my logo is a Carl Zeiss Distagon 21/2.8 retrofocus lens)

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