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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone do something please. D:

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I quit smoking years ago, but man I was thinking of getting a Che pack just as a souvenir. Maybe next time.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What happens if you throw an old Zeiss Nettar folding camera on a star tracker, and point it at good'ol M31. Zeiss Nettar Lomography color negative 120 film ISO 100 Negative is 6x9 Exposure time something arround 3 minutes (if I remember correctly) f/4,5 Pretty ok for a ~96 year old camera/ lens.

A old Zeiss Nettar folding camera mounted on a star tracker used for for long exposure photography of the night sky.

A analog photo of the night sky, many stars are visible. In the centre M31 the Andromeda Galaxy is slightly visible.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

These were puzzling us so much when we were visiting a few months ago haha. Source: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDiC...

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I've also weighed the parts, for shits and giggles.:D

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The wheels are another curiosity, because they're hookless. ⬇️

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

You can get adapters for 35mm, or print them yourself if you have an 3D printer at your disposal. ;D Got some myself, but haven't tried them yet. And with 120 cams you need to take the 35mm film out in the dark, and rewind it manually back in its canister. As normal rewinding isn't possible.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Tja, welche Schlagzeile bekommt bei den Kartoffeln wohl mehr Aufmerksamkeit?

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Irgendwie hab ich'n Déjàvu. :D

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Five years ago already. Eventhough I didn't really felt like, because I had to get up early for work, I drove to a watchtower kinda nearby. Just because it was the last chance to look at Neowise, and the condition finally where good enough to do so. So yeah, comet Neowise, at arround 11:30pm.

A landscape photo with dark treetops in the foreground. Further back fields and lights from nearby towns and villages are visible. Most of the photo is taken up by the summer night sky. A deep orange colored horizon slowly fading into blue at the top of the photo. The brighter stars are already visible. Among these, the comet Neowise can be seen, with its long dust/ gas tail.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Wahrscheinlich hast du schon nachgesehen, aber für den Fall, schonmal mit einem Inbus probiert. Auch wenn man von außen erstmal nichts sieht. Hab's damals bei meinen alten Veltecs nicht entdeckt, bis mich der Chef vom LBS drauf hingewiesen hat. :D

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The old Rheinmetall Perfekta. What's really fun, and kinda freeing about this thing is its simplicity. Exp. is either 1/25" or Bulb. Focus: f7,7 4,5m - 40m (14ft - 131ft) f11 3,8 - inf (12ft - inf) f16 3m - inf (10ft - inf) Sharpness seems to drop at ~50m (164ft), but stais at this level to inf.

A photo of an old Rheinmetall Perfekta camera.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A few of my favorite shots I took with my old Rheinmetall Perfekta. Though not really ment for landscape photography, it produces some nice images.

A black and white landscape photo of various rock formations. Taken in saxon switzerland. Mountains visible in the background are: Rauschenstein, Kaiserkrone and Zschirnstein.

A black and white landscape photo of mountains taken in saxon switzerland. Front to back: Rauschenstein, Kaiserkrone and Zirkelstein.

A black and white photo of the town Bad Schandau located in Saxon Switzerland. With the Lilienstein visible in the background.

A black and white photo taken at the Pfaffensteine, in the background the fortress/ Festung Königstein can be seen.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Another pretty old one I still like. And I really want/ need to redo, simply because M104 aka the sombrero galaxy's one of my favorites. And I have a better suited camera now.

A (DSO) photo of the night sky. Many stars can be seen. In the middle sits a bright fuzzy object M104, with a even brighter centre. A bright disk and dark dust lane surrounding the centre give it an appearance of an sombrero, hence the alternative name "Sombrero Galaxy".

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I've gone through some old folders of mine. Some astro photography one's in this case. Maybe I post one or two more the next days.

A (DSO) photo of the black night sky. Many stars with slighty different hues of blue and yellow can be seen. Even some faint galaxies in the background are visible, some in thin and/ or oblong shape. Others as round fuzzy objects.
Positined in the middle of the frame are M51 and its companion galaxy NGC 5195.
M51, the bigger one's bright spiral arms streaked with thin dark dust clouds are clearly visible. The inner brighter parts of these arms are colored in pale blue and purble and pink-ish hues. Surrounded of these sits the bright core of the galaxy in yellow orange tones.
The smaller galaxy, connected via a faint band with dark dust clouds to the left, sits NGC 5195. At first glance the much smaller galaxy has more uniform appearance colored in yellow. But caused of the tidal forces of the near M51, big light and fuzzy plumes of gas getting ejected from the small galaxy can be seen, slowly faiding to black in front of the darkness of space.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Finally I've adjusted the distance scale on the front element for focusing. Judging by the projection on my little makeshift ground glass, and using a magnifying glass, the lens's surprisingly sharp. Even wide open. Except the corners, as usual with these old cameras.^^

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I've been always curious how setting the shutter speed on these worked. Just watch the little pin at 11 o'clock going through 1/25s, 1/50s, 1/100s, 1/200s and bulb.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Shutter, aperture and even the self timer works nicely again.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

After a handful of oil, and even more acetone, and then some more acetone everything's cleaned up.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thanks to a happy little accident I've got my hands on an old Wirgin folding camera. The problem was that its struts were bent and the lubricant was completely gummed up so the leaf shutter was barely moving with some help. And the aperture was completely stuck.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

First one's a digitized 120 Film negative, edited in Lightroom. The other two are cyanotypes, one on photo printer paper and the other on water color paper. Both made with the modified entlarger: bsky.app/profile/fluf...

A black & white photo of an landscape with various sand stone mountains, taken in Saxon Switzerland.

Mountains from back to front: Rauschenstein, Kaiserkrone and Zirkelstein.

The same photo like the first, but as an cyanotype print on photo paper.

The same photo like the first, but as an cyanotype print on water color paper.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The modified analog entlarger. The power supply gave me some headaches, but I managed to get it to work. Works pretty good, but could be better regarding exposure times. Or maybe I need to experiment with the cyanotype furmula a bit.

An old analog film entlarger. The light compartment is removed, and replaced with a UV light source, projecting a picture on a piece of paper.

A view on the UV LED light source with a heat sink and a fan for cooling, mounted on a large pipe shining down into it.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Got myself a nice tractor beam goin. :D Now I only need to mount the uv projector on this old analog entlarger.

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FluffFuzz @flufffuzz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I've first played with cyanotypes around 2 years ago when I first stumbled upon this technique. But what I really wanted, was doing larger prints using my middle format negs, god I just love their size. Tried another formula/ technique, and just did some contact prints as test for now. We'll see.

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