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A little bit of fun with this post. We're having a few days away at a resort in the Maldives. Normally, at this time of year the weather is warm and sunny, but this year the rainy season is clinging on. As a result, the TV channels were really glitchy, and I couldn't resist recording a few frames. If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly.

This week it's Ann-Christine's turn to host the Challenge, and her theme is 'Dreamy'. On her blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand … she writes, 'what is ”dreamy” for you, and how do you create a dreamy picture?' Ann-Christine tells us the dictionary definition of 'dreamy', and also a photographic description of using, 'soft light, soft focus, delicate tones, and other ...

A while ago, I picked up a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 medium format folding camera for next to nothing from the Kamerastore website. It was cheap because it had, 'flaws that will affect typical use.' In this case, the 'viewfinder has haze and fungus inside'. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition. After a few weeks, I took it out with a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise, and the results were spectacular, but the hazy viewfinder was an issue and I really wanted to clean it out.

Way back in June I made my first redscale film, and I loved it. Since then, whenever I decant some 35mm film into Rapid canisters, the odds are that at least one of the canisters will be redscaled. Just recently, I picked up some Lomochrome Turquoise film especially to decant into Rapid canisters, as that's one film stock that I've really wanted to try with a Rapid camera, so of course as well as a 'normal' decanted film, I rolled a length of Lomochrome Turquoise reversed into a Rapid canister.

Back in the early 1960s, in response to Kodak's introduction of its instamatic film system, the European film and camera company Agfa launched the Rapid system. Actually, it's more accurate to say that they reintroduced their 1940s Karat film system under a new name. Instead of a sealed plastic cassette, the Agfa Rapid system used metal canisters, which contained a length of 35mm film.