14mission<p>I've been wanting to take film pictures of my cats for a long time, but the old box cameras I've mostly been using focus at 10', so I couldn't really take proper portraits of them. I got a snap-on close-up lens for the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Duaflex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Duaflex</span></a>, and with that, the focus is at 3', which is just about right. That's how I took the first two pictures. The second pair are from a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Voigtl%C3%A4nder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voigtländer</span></a> bellows camera, my first "respectable" <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MediumFormat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediumFormat</span></a> camera, which lets you focus and adjust speed and aperture.<br>You *can* make that kind of adjustments on box cameras, thought it's pretty primitive--though I kind of like that.<br>The Duaflex pictures were color-adjusted with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Irfanview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irfanview</span></a> (they are probably underexposed), the Voigtländer pictures didn't need anything.<br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/believeinfilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>believeinfilm</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/filmisnotdead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filmisnotdead</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mediumformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediumformat</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/120film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>120film</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/kodakduaflex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kodakduaflex</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/catsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Voigtlander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voigtlander</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BellowsCamera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BellowsCamera</span></a></p>