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A bee for Sunday :-)


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Gorgeous, and I like the simplicity of the image.

That reminds me of something. When I was in my late teens or early twenties i bought a Minolta 110 Zoom SLR camera. One day while playing with the macro setting I took a picture of a bumblebee on a dandelion. I liked how it looked so I had it enlarged to 8x10 at a camera shop, bought a cheap frame with a glass front somewhere, probably at a variety or drug store, and entered in in the photography competition at our county fair. It just sat there all week but at the end of the fair, when I went to get my picture, I found that it had a red ribbon hanging behind the frame out of sight. I'd won second prize! Now that I know better I'm amazed that they were able to enlarge a tiny 110mm. negative to that large of a size and still have it look OK.

JayM wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 6:15 am ... i bought a Minolta 110 Zoom SLR camera.
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Now that I know better I'm amazed that they were able to enlarge a tiny 110mm. negative to that large of a size and still have it look OK.

So to speak the MFT of the Analog Aera :-)
I never had pocket format, too much tricky stuff to develop and enlarge it myself. Analog has a different effect, well developed black/white pictures (I only did b/w in my private life, color vision weakness) looked good on 20*30 inch (50*75cm), only the tubs and the handling with the paper was "fu***ng ugly".

I was using bog-standard Kodak 110 color film cartrdges meant for Instamatic 110 cameras BTW, whatever I'd bought in a drugstore or supermarket, nothing special. I have no idea now what the film speed was or anything.

A bee for sunday is a unusual gift but if I look our flowers in the garden the bees are everyday at work and in spingtime as in summertime they are ever present and sure at work for their big 'family'. Thanks again! I was thinking that on Easter Night also the Exultet Himn speak about bees and in special way about beeswax because the Easter Candle is made by pure beeswax so it is made also by bees work. Have a good Ascension Day waiting for the Holy Spirit. bYe from me

The film speed is not comparable with today's digital cameras. The 110s had between 50-400ASA. It was enough for most of us back then, no pixels were counted :-)

For the beginning of the week something comfortably calming on the desktop


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a new one


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Well-taken photo, but hmm, I admit that flies are not my favourite insects. :-)