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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-02-05 at 07:53

In January 2025, I loaded an AGFA 100 that was about to expire into my trusty Lomography LC/A+. I took it for a few walks around Berlin.

This one is from a bridge in the middle of a forest made famous in the series Dark on Netflix.

I wrote an article on it on my blog: https://ftrc.blog/the-bridge-in-dark/

📷 Lomography LC-A+

🎞️ AGFA 100

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-02-03 at 08:52

Someone is riding a bike around the long bike lane from Baumschulenweg to Adlershof. I was going home and stopped for some water when I captured this one.

In the early summer of 2024, I experimented with some expired film in one of my cameras. The film I purchased on eBay was AGFA Color 200, known for its vibrant and saturated colors. I was curious to see how it would perform.

📷 Lomography LC-A+

🎞️ AGFA Color 200 (Expired)

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-02-02 at 14:02

Around early summer 2024, I decided to try some expired film in one of my cameras. The film was an AGFA Color 200 that I bought on eBay. It is famous for its saturated colors, and I wanted to see how it worked out.

Here, you can see one of the many wood houses I saw when I went on a boat tour of Spreewald with some friends.

📷 Lomography LC-A+

🎞️ AGFA Color 200 (Expired)

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-31 at 17:04

In 2015, during my first trip to Russia, I bought a weird #smena camera. I never fully understood how I could take pictures with it. Fast-forward to the pandemic, and when I got excited about analog photography, I tried to use it again with interesting results.

Eventually, I found a way to lose the camera, so I went online to find a replacement as soon as possible. This is how I got the camera that took the picture here. It's a Smena M made in the 1960s in Belarus; the M stands for Minsk.

I took these pictures in January 2024 with the Smena M and a roll of AGFA 400 to test things out.

📷 Smane M

🎞️ AGFA 400

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-28 at 09:24

When I first got my Canon F-1, I went on a walk around Neukölln, looking for interesting places. I think I took too many pictures of the unusual things around the neighborhood.

From the frogs around Weserstrasse to the weird wood people at the skate park… There is a lot to see in the streets here.

📷 Canon F-1

🎞️ Fomapan 200

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-27 at 14:42

There is a bridge connecting Kreuzberg to Treptow that always floods. It is the Görlitzer Brücke. It used to be the train tracks leading out of the Görlitzer Bahnhof, but no trains have passed by this place since April 1951.

This is one of the Second World War ruins that can still be easily found in Berlin. And it's still a bit weird for me to pass by this place and think about everything that happened around it in the last hundred years or so…

📷 Canon F-1

🎞️ Fomapan 200

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-25 at 09:18

These are from the few days I spent in Oulu early in January 2023, courtesy of the people behind Visit Oulu. This was the northeastern region I have ever been to, and I'm glad I didn't freeze, even when walking on a frozen beach or hiking in the snow.

Camera-wise, I have to say that I'm happy that my Lomo LC-A+ didn't freeze because I remember temperatures getting below -20º degrees. Based on that, I was right to bring a Lady Grey film since it wouldn't make much difference to photograph the landscape in color.

📷 Lomography LC-A+

🎞️ Lomography Lady Grey

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-23 at 13:22

Something simple from early in 2023, when I first started using my Canon F-1 around town. I bought this camera by "accident" on eBay. I wanted one for a while, primarily because of the weird possibilities that the viewfinder gave me. But I always found them for more than I could afford.

One day, someone put a camera on an eBay auction. I placed the minimum bid and forgot about it. A few days later, I got an email saying that the camera was mine, and that is how my story with this camera started out. The first roll of the film showed some need for repair, and the camera was sent for some fixes.

The pictures here are from one of the first times I used it after that, around March 2023 or so… And the TV Tower was following me around Berlin.

📷 Canon F-1

🎞️ AGFA 400

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-18 at 22:28

This picture took me on a nostalgic journey to the past. I shot it two years ago and realized I haven't publicly shared anything from this roll. Now is an excellent opportunity to showcase it!

In February 2023, I took my Canon F-1 for a weekend in Szczecin, Poland. One of my goals for this trip was to explore how black-and-white films would work with a red filter, and I did that with a few different film rolls.

I love how grainy this got.

📷 Canon F-1

🎞️ Fomapan 400 (Red Filter)

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-17 at 18:04

In May 2024, I took an early morning bike ride to Adlershof to photograph. I wanted to test HP5 film with red filters. My goal was to capture medium-format images of the concrete structures at the Aerodynamic Park.

Here is one picture from this roll of film, and it might be one of my favorite photos ever taken. I don’t even know how to explain this to you.

I love these black-and-white concrete monsters.

📷 Mamiya C330

🎞️ Ilford HP5 + Red Filter

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-17 at 15:27

On one of my visits to the St. Nicolai—und St. Marien-Friedhof in Kreuzberg, I decided to combine two things I have been experimenting with: self-spooling my own film rolls with Fomapan 400 and the Mamiya RZ67 camera.

I ended up using 35mm film on a medium-format camera to see how wide I could take my pictures.

📷 Mamiya RZ67

🎞️ Fomapan 400 35mm

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Written by Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG on 2025-01-15 at 10:46

https://ftrc.blog/house-of-soviets-kaliningrad/


The House of Soviets is a huge brutalist building in the middle of Kaliningrad. No other construction in the city is as large as this one, so it can be seen everywhere, which is a stain for many Russians. Mainly because this is a failed architectural project that lies abandoned in the heart of Kaliningrad, but some people complain about the weird look of it, and some even mention that it looks too much like a buried robot since its appearance resembles the head of a buried giant robot.

I was in Kaliningrad in the last days of October 2017, and when I arrived, the House of Soviets caught my attention. The building is in the city's central square, close to where the Königsberg Castle used to be but not quite there. The House of Soviets was built over the castle's moat.

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