Sputnik – Provia 100 – F22 1/50th sec
At the high point of a hike that took us up about to about a 1000 foot elevation to an overlook of Bozeman, MT.
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Big Sur, CA
Sputnik – Techpan
Beautiful coast line in the Big Sur area of the California coast.
Nubble Lighthouse At York, Maine
Sputnik (don’t remember the film, aperture, etc.)
I submitted a B/W Techpan version of this a few folios ago. I don’t think that I submitted a color one.
PEI shoreline
This was taken with the sputnik at Prince Edward Island. I believe the year was 2005.
b&w reversal of Brazos Bend State Park
This image was made several years ago at Brazos Bend State Park (Texas) where my alligator shots all come from. I think I used a sputnik and most likely used tech pan. I have no idea what settings were used on the camera.
Dorothy Mladenka
- Old City Cemetery – Columbia, Texas
Taken with a TL120-1 - My Old House!
Canada, B&W Reversal, Taken with a Sputnik - Rocky Mountain National Park Bull Elk
2009 with a Sputnik - Waterfall in Idahoe Springs
Colorado, July 2009, Shot with a Sputnik
Temple Guardian #1
This is from my early days with my “Don-Lopp-modified-Sputnik.” We try to visit NYC every other year during the winter holidays. This is from a late-night visit to the NYC library. I spot metered around the scene. It’s quite dark there at night, with a little bit of ambient light from the traffic.
Provia 100F, f22, 80 seconds.
Linda Nygren
All of these images were taken with my Sputnik which was tuned/rebuilt by Ted Baskin. All taken with tripod. The exposure is unrecorded but most likely using f/32 (or whatever is all the way past f/22 on my Spud) and 1/25 second on Provia 100.
- Beach “Cottage”, Naples Florida
The public beach at Naples Florida gives views of many such humble abodes. Note the Sea Grapes and Sea Oats in the foreground. A little dark, but I still like it. - Cypress Trees
Near the Kirby Storter boardwalk in the Big Cypress Swamp area of south Florida - Shoreline at Solbakken Resort, Lutsen MN
The Lake Superior shoreline is one of my favorite places, with special charm in winter. I try to visit every Jan or Feb, as well as once or twice yearly during other seasons. - Lake Superior Ice Breakup
Unlike smaller MN lakes, the big lake does not freeze over completely in the winter. But during periods of calm more sheltered areas will freeze, then will break up periodically due to wave and wind action and the sheets of broken ice pile up along the shore. The sound when it is breaking up is also awesome (in the original sense).
Frank Roberto
All photos – Sputnik, ISO 400
- Concrete Factory – f/4.5, 1/15 second
This is in Concrete, WA. The plant supplied concrete to many WAS cities. It has been in ruins since the late 1970s, I believe. I’m interested in silhouettes in 3D, and a fan of a shallow DOF. - Greenhouse – f/4.5
I always keep an eye out for reflections when shooting 3D, though you don’t get much depth in the reflection itself here. - Fire Spinner – f/8?, Bulb for about a second
After much trial and error, I got a few shots of fire spinners frozen by my flash, but with a longer exposure to get the fire trails. - Abandoned Dairy – f/4.5, 1/15 second
On highway 20 outside Sedro Wolley, this is an abandoned dairy which was run by the nearby Northern State Hospital.
Lake Huron in February
Sputnik F22
This was taken with a sputnik in February, quite a few years ago, at one of the great lakes. It should have been very windy and unbearably cold. I was hoping to take some winter pictures. But it was warm and calm in spite of my having a stereo camera with me.
Arthouse 2
This is the living room of the Arthouse, a bed and breakfast where I stay whenever I’m in New York (unless they are booked up). They do no advertising and let their rooms out only to artists that have been personally introduced through friends. So it’s a bit exclusive, I guess… There are five rooms of various sizes, and 2.5 baths that the guests share.
Every morning, breakfast is included, and one typically finds guests from overseas, often from Germany or nearby central 
European countries, Spain, Mexico, or other countries in South America. Sometimes the guests are so interesting, you hardly need to see the rest of the city. I stay there once or twice a month, because I have a part-time job driving a coach bus to and from NYC from Charlottesville. I always bring my bicycle.
Fuji RXP, f16 (?), 1 sec. exposure in available light, using Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. Camera stabilized by holding up against a wall. Slide in folio is original film.
Bike Works NYC
This is a great little bike shop in SoHo that I discovered years ago while shopping for some esoteric bike parts online. They have a fabulous web page with lots of fun historical content, plus galleries of unusual bikes they’ve had in their shop (see this page showing some of my bikes). My city bike, pictured at the lower left of the view (black frame, 20″ wheels), is in their web galleries as well. This view is of their “showroom” and counter – an area about 10 x 15 ft. 
To obtain this exposure, I held the camera upside down against the door frame above my head, shimmed a bit with a bicycle cog under the front edge of the camera (I couldn’t bring a tripod on my bike). I took numerous pictures this way, bracketting my exposures.
Kodak E200, f16, 8s exposure, Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. original slide.
Michele in 2009
In early spring of 2009 I went on a hike with my beloved Michele. Weather for Charlottesville had been forecast in the low 50s. But at Old Rag Mt. things turned out different. Instead of the partly sunny, mid-40s temperatures we’d expected, by the time we got halfway up the mountain, there was a stiff breeze blowing snow UP the side of the mountain, into our faces, with temperatures below freezing. At the point shown in the photograph, we were out on some rocky parts of the climb, relatively exposed, wind howling, like a scene out of Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air.” We’d forgotten our oxygen bottles so we turned around.
1/10 sec. exposure on FUJI RAP film in available light at f16 with Sputnik on loan from Chuck Holzner. This is the original slide.
Blobbed!!!
#36 – Sputnik – don’t remember the film or settings
This was taken at a retreat for high school kids. The “blob” is the inflatable thingy. One person sits at the far end while another person jumps from the platform onto the near end. This propels the person at the far end up in the air. Everybody stopped what they were doing to watch because the girl that is up in the air said it was OK to have the heaviest guy there jump on the blob. I think this one set a record. She emerged from the water crying, but everyone was cheering. She loved the attention more than she hated the pain and did it again 10 minutes later.
“1959”
#35 – Sputnik – f/4.5 Provia 400F
This was taken at a play that my stepdaughter was in. Flash photography was not allowed. A couple of months ago on the MF3D Yahoo group, there was a discussion about wide apertures with a Sputnik. It was the same advice that we’ve all heard over the years. Apertures wider than f/16 are useless. This was taken at f/4.5 and even though there is definite softness, I don’t think it’s useless.