Rolleisoft

My Yashica Mat uses standard Rollei bayonet filters; I have a Rolleisoft I diffusion filter, and I decided to try it out. It has a series of circles on the glass which cause bright highlights to go all glowy, although the effect is very subtle and generally lost if you stop down or use contrasty film. It's a far cry from the double fog filters of Geoffrey Unsworth (and on a practical level you have to unmount the filter in order to put the lens cap back on) but it's there, lurking. Could the effect be achieved with Photoshop? Yes. Yes, it could. Also, the Mat's negative area is definitely taller than it is wide. It's 6x6-and-a-bit.

 

Polypan F

Ricoh 500 ME / Polypan F 50 / Brescia, Italy

A discarded Apple 20SC 20MB hard drive on the streets of  Milan, June 2013, with a pair of Macintosh 800K external drives. I can't identify the keyboard.

Milan

Famously, Italy doesn't have Starbucks. Milan does however have a clone, Arnold Coffee(tm).

Polypan F seems to be home-made, or at least hand-rolled. The batch I bought from eBay had been taped on to used spools:

If there's one thing I learned from Twin Peaks, it's that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. I also learned that from Mary Poppins. Imagine a Twin Peaks / Mary Poppins crossover. You can see it, can't you? Polypan is apparently some kind of cine film. ISO 50 is of course very slow but, with a rangefinder camera, 1/15th is by no means impossible. The shots above were all stand developed with R09 and are very grainy but, dammit, I like grain. "Life has surface noise".