Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Following on from roll #11 posted in this thread.
I've pretty well finished this project now. All rolls are scanned and ready to burn to disc for the film's owner who returns from South America tomorrow or the day after. In some ways I'm sad but in others relieved because it's been a hell of a lot of work ... eighty to one hundred hours, I've lost count!
This roll was obviously a progession from Java which means it was in sequence ... surprise surprise!
I've pretty well finished this project now. All rolls are scanned and ready to burn to disc for the film's owner who returns from South America tomorrow or the day after. In some ways I'm sad but in others relieved because it's been a hell of a lot of work ... eighty to one hundred hours, I've lost count!
This roll was obviously a progession from Java which means it was in sequence ... surprise surprise!
The Meaness
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I love the shot of the kid in the river! Fascinating roll!
sabrewolf
Member
If you remove the classic car Java looks the same it is today as it was 75yrs ago. Amazing... Thanks for the scans.
alan davus
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I haven't been to Java in nearly 30 years but this is how I remember it. Nice to know nothing much has changed.
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
Even with all it's faults I like the first shot...
What's going on in the 11th shot...it's has the one guy sitting on what looks like a wood slab and two more holding something in their hands...???
What's going on in the 11th shot...it's has the one guy sitting on what looks like a wood slab and two more holding something in their hands...???
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Really like the shot with the staggering horse! The temple shots look great too.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Some sort of child labour by the looks of it ... but maybe they're older than they look?
The horse was obviously frightened witless by the car and is attempting to leap the canal to safety but for it's ownwer being in the way trying to calm it! Some of these pics tell great stories.
I'm keen to get to the last two rolls #15 and #16 because they turned out to be totally different to anything else we've seen so far.
Aside from being an expert horsewoman and pretty damned good photographer our central character spoke five languages apparently!
That first shot is interesting ... what looks like water on a lens is actually fungus spots on the film not to mention that vicious recurring light leak ... but I liked the image itself so much I thought it was worth seeing.
Wayno
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The temple in the last shot looks like Candi Mendut in central Java which we drove past on the way to Borobudur.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I've noticed looking at the pics that she had a very definite technique for shooting from a moving car at what seems to be fairly slow shutter speeds. Although there's a lot of movement blurr in these shots there always seems to be one part of the image that has relative sharpness ... she obviously locks on to this point and attempts to keep it stationary in her viewfinder while she composes and takes the shot. In that top pic it's the person located slightly right of centre in the image!
sabrewolf
Member
I believe they are making the fabric for Batik shirts, probably aroun Jogjakarta area.
By the way, they are not child labor, they look at least 20 IMO. Maybe people here do look younger hehehhee
tj01
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I had the same thought looking at the guy in the middle of the rice fields.
Olsen
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My father was living in Indonesia in the early 60' and we had (wonder where they are) a heap of photographs that he had taken. As I remember them, the street scenes is very similar to these; carts, people's clothes and so on. Today it is far different. Cars, the inevitable motorcycles which crawls around all over the Far East and the Coca Cola adds...
oftheherd
Veteran
Another set of fascinating photos Keith. I have really been enjoying these. it is such an interesting look at a exotic world gone by.
Olsen
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You see the same with many old photographs. I have seen it in 'tons' of old pictures left behind by German WWII soldiers too. I think the reason for party unsharp images is that they are taken with old folders. Many of these folder cameras were of poor quality and the lens was never straight on the film plane. Thus the party unsharp negs. Was this 6 x 6 cm?
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
No ... all 135mm shot with what appears to be a Leica screwmount Olsen!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
nlubis
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These are great. And yes, not much seem to have change over the years (rural areas).
Thanks Keith.
Thanks Keith.
ederek
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Actually one of my favorite rolls. Thanks again Keith!!
charjohncarter
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Wonderful Keith, I wonder how much different it would look today. Maybe in some ways not much.
Joe AC
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Thanks for sharing this.