Inside San Jose Diridon Station, which has a classic train-depot newsstand/snackbar. Taken on a #KodakHawkeye.
This is scanned from the negative. I want to try making a print and doing some tricks to selectively get the walls to be a bit darker while leaving the shadowy newsstand about like it is.

From the roll I developed last night. Taken on a #KodakHawkeye.
Roxie Theater, SF.
Had to get down on the sidewalk to take these. I washed my hands a long time before I started eating popcorn.
I like these, but the glow from the neon kind of overwhelms things. I suppose one way to reduce that would just be to take the picture a little earlier, when there's more background light, and you can use a shorter exposure.
But if there's any sort of filters that people use for pictures like this, I'd be interested to hear about that.

More #KodakHawkeye pictures, from #SanGregorio (a tiny town, really just a crossroads with a store, south of Half Moon Bay, CA).
The first one is taken inside the store (it's actually also a cafe & bar; if you go on a weekend, someone will probably be playing music).
This was a longish exposure. I put the camera on a bar, and angled it slightly upwards by stacking random cards from my wallet to elevate the front side.
The second is across the street. I like the contrast between the rustic, falling-down old building, allegedly once a stage coach stop, and the modern car.
(Yes it's a Tesla. There were two anti-Elon stickers on it and a Harris-Walz sticker too, so I guess the owners are forgiven).
#120film #620film #mediumformat #SquareFormat

Working through the roll I recently shot with the #KodakHawkeye. This was "focused" on the fence by using a close-up attachment and standing as close to the recommended 3-foot focal distance as I could approximate.
Shooting a TLR (or TLR-lite) through the fence was a bit tricky since this one case where the inch-or-two offset between the taking lens and the viewing lens might really make a difference. At least, it'd make a difference if the offset was vertical. So I held the camera sideways, and that way I could get most of the barn between the boards like I wanted. The barn might be shifted a little bit left or right from what I saw in the viewfinder, but that doesn't matter much.
#120film #620film #mediumformat #SquareFormat

Lightweight "TLR-lite" cameras like the #KodakHawkeye are handy for vertical shots. You point the lens(es) up, and instead of looking down into the viewfinder you just hold the camera in front of you. More comfortable than craning your neck to look straight up!

Almost the same shot, unfiltered, and with a yellow filter. It makes it way better! Taken with a #KodakHawkeye. #believeinfilm

Some more #KodakHawkeye shots from SF, walking back from Glass Key to my office on Market St.
#120film #FilmPhotography #filmisnotdead

The next roll was shot on a #KodakHawkeye. These are both on Sutter St, SF, right outside of Glass Key Photo.
#120film #filmisnotdead #FilmPhotography

Here's one I took either with the #Duaflex or the #Hawkeye, not sure anymore. It's really pretty nice and crisp.
You can see one effect of the simple lens in the curve of that trolley-wire support pole. I'm pretty sure in real life it's completely straight. This is a nice modern steel pole, probably 25-30 years old or so, on the #SCVTA (if it was an old wooden pole on the #SFMuni, I wouldn't be quite so sure!). The first version is the original, and has kind of low contrast. The second version is color-enhanced with #Irfanview. My bet is the negative is on the overexposed end (the lab sent me scans electronically, and I haven't picked up the negs yet).
But, decent results for a 75-year old (at least) low-end camera.
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #120film #kodakhawkeye #kodakduaflex #browniehawkeye #mountainview #mountainviewca

Something is messed up in there.
This was loaded using the "120->620 transfer via Hawkeye" trick.
Took one shot, on "12" (numbers should count *down* this way), wound it and never saw another number. Eventually it tightened up and I could advance any more.
I *think* what's going on is that the end of the film has come loose from the takeup spool, and it's in a loop!
I guess I have 2 choices: go into a "darkroom" (don't have a real darkroom--I just go into a closet at night) and try to salvage the situation. Or, consider the roll a loss and open it in light so I can learn from this.
Leaning towards the latter. Wasting a roll of film is a bummer but there's a good possibility trying to salvage things would fail, and then I'd have wasted a roll of film + the cost of processing + lost out on a bunch of pictures I *thought* I was taking.
#filmisnotdead #filmphotography #mediumformat #120film #620film #duaflex #kodakhawkeye