Old rocks, old camera, old film, deep history, visual thinking. Stepping outside of, or exceeding the limit of, the established horizon, border and parergon of nostalgic pleasures.
A previous Nostalgic Pleasures #3 post outlined the background to my experiment in a minor key using 35mm expired Fuji Velvia 50 film and a 1960's Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex Super SLR camera.The continuation of the experiment involved replacing both the Fuji Velvia 50 with Fuji Pro 400H colour negative and the Zeiss 35mm Pro-Tessar lens with the Pro-Tessar 85mm lens on the Contaflex.
The gifted Fuji Pro 400H is expired because the film was introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2021. Fortunately, the 85mm pro-Tessar lens, which has been generously loaned to me, does not suffer from the key problem of the front elements separating, due to the early optical cement that Zeiss used deteriorating, resulting in a sort of "rainbow" appearance behind the front element. So I could experiment and explore the unstable boundaries of nostalgic pleasure by experimenting with photographing the coastal rocks in my local area. Hopefully this probing would generate some possibilities for a more conceptually orientated large format photography.