Left: normal lens, Right: flipped lens

I have always meant to flip the meniscus lens in a Brownie Hawkeye since reading @kdstevens great article: www.lomography.com/magazine/114289-flipping-over-the-browni…. After a great album by @akula and, dare I say it, a bit of a challenge from @neufotomacher, I grabbed my second best Hawkeye and performed the very simple reversal. Being the complete geek that I am, I had to perform a comparison test with identical rolls of Fujicolor NPS 160, expired in 2006 and home processed in Arista C-41. In each pair, the shot on the left is with the normal lens and the shot on the right is with a flipped lens.

Photographer:
troch
Uploaded:
2019-06-06
Tags:
120 brownie c-41 canada color experiment expired film fbhf hawkeye home developed medium format square test
Camera:
Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash
Film:
Fujicolor NPS 160, expired in 2006
Lens:
Normal and flipped meniscus
City:
Earl's Cove, BC
Country/region:
Canada
Albums:
Flipping out with the Brownie Hawkeye

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6 Comments

  1. nonspecificscientific
    nonspecificscientific ·

    This is really wonderful, man. :D

  2. troch
    troch ·

    Thanks @nonspecificscientific, experimentation is what it's all about for me!

  3. ricoinbrooklyn
    ricoinbrooklyn ·

    Cool Brownie album! Dig it!

  4. troch
    troch ·

    Thanks @ricoinbrooklyn!

  5. kdstevens
    kdstevens ·

    Very cool! Thanks for doing this.

  6. troch
    troch ·

    Thanks @kdstevens, you remain a great source of inspiration for me!

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