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Mary Jo Richards
@mjrichards.bsky.social
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Teacher, reader, observer of people and the natural world, wife, cat mom, unapologetic liberal, feminist, queerdo, antiracist, neurodivergent who masquerades as a normie. Obsessed with the analog, particularly film cameras, typewriters & fountain pens.
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A couple of #Charmera shots out the car window on the way home from a doc appt this morning. Don’t worry; I was the passenger.
Silhouette of bare trees against a yellow sky using the yellow pixel filter. A line of power towers extending off into the distance using the red pixel filter
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Just wanted to say @debbiecrochets.bsky.social makes super comfy bed socks/slippers and other cute crocheted things and is raising money to help pay her dogs’ vet bills this way if you want to help out. Check out her profile for links to her Etsy shop.
Picture of my feet in a pair of Debbie’s blue and purple crocheted bed socks that I bought off her Etsy shop.
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Sometimes you win with #mysteryfilm, and sometimes you lose. This roll that came in the most recent Samurai was a loss. It was some unbranded film from Germany, 200 ISO, 24 exp. Can anyone identify the stock?
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Spent today putting together this lighted cabinet for my #camera gear with the help of @baroncalamity.bsky.social. It’s not the sturdiest piece of furniture I have ever owned, but it keeps the cameras out of their cases and where I can see them, perhaps reminding me to use each in turn.
Black, three-shelf, lighted cabinet with acrylic doors full of assorted camera gear.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f1.7 lens adapted to Olympus PEN EP-1 M43 digital camera. Lens was wide open.
Color photo of a dilute tortoiseshell cat looking up and to the left as she is backlit by the golden glow of a lamp. The tag on her collar reads "I Have a Microchip."
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Shot on the Yashica FX-3 with the new Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f1.7 lens with Arista EDU Ultra 400 film developed in Caffenol and scanned with a Plustek 8200i AI. Had the lens wide open and shot this at 1/60th, I believe.
Black and white photo of a dilute tortoiseshell cat sitting on the edge of the kitchen sink waiting for me to run the water so she can drink out of the faucet. Black and white photo of this same dilute tortoiseshell cat cleaning her paws as she grows impatient waiting for her drink of water from the kitchen sink faucet.
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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FedEx finally came through last night, and my new-to-me #Zeiss lens showed up. Put a roll of #film through it. Will develop today and see what I’ve got. Light leaks, I suspect. This #Yashica needs new seals.
A Yashica FX-3 35mm SLR film camera with red leatherette sporting a Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f1.7 lens
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Things are getting a little embarrassing. I bought a “parts-only” Samurai x3.0 cheap to cannibalize the handgrip & lens cap & have a donor machine. I’ll be damned if the thing doesn’t work & has a roll of mystery film in it! Geezus. Now I have three functional Samurai cameras.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Those three magical words when you have a bad case of #GAS: “out for delivery.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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A little too late for this semester’s #analog audio unit, I finally got a working boombox. The tape decks actually function! Thanks to @mustangjosh94.bsky.social I have some blank cassettes, so next semester, I think we will talk about the #mixtape and how it disrupted the music industry.
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I bought an adapter so I could use #Yashica glass on my #Olympus PEN EP-1 #M43 camera. I shot the Yashica 50mm 1:2 lens against the Olympus kit zoom lens, an M.Zuiko 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6. I like the look of the Yashica glass better, personally, but what do you think?
Close-up of a calico cat shot with a Yashica 50mm 1:2 lens adapted to a M43 camera. Close-up photo of a calico cat shot with a native M43 digital zoom lens.
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Dear major auto finance company: that you make me call you each month & sit on hold with a customer service rep for several minutes while sorting out how to apply my overpayment to the principal of my loan tells me you don’t want me to pay it off early & are making the process intentionally obtuse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Playing with DOF at close range with a Rolleinar 3 on my #Yashica D. Even the shots that don’t exactly work look kinda cool IMO. #Film here is Ektar 100.
A slender sapling at close range. A truncated branch juts out to the right. A close-up of a lichen-covered branch A branch with a knot hole is in focus at the center of the frame. In the foreground is a lichen-covered branch that is out of focus. A tree stump with diagonal striations left by the saw used to cut it. The depth of field is very shallow leaving much of the stump out of focus, resulting in a kind of dreamy, myopic effect
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Somebody said it was #MonochromeMonday, but I thought I’d find a way to work #cats in anyway.
📷 Yashica Samurai x3.0
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 400
🧪 Caffenol
📷 📲 Epson V600
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#flashphotography
#halfframe
#Yashica
Tuxedo cat peers down from the top of his cat tree Tuxedo cat bathes himself while seated atop the cat tree Calico cat sits atop a scratching pad hidden under a chair in the corner Dilute tortoiseshell sits in the corner of the sofa, refusing the pose for the camera.
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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More playing with the Rolleinar 3 on the #Yashica D loaded Kodak Ektar 100 #film.
A close-up image of the grille at the top of an HVAC system’s fan. The greenery in the background is blurred as the depth of field is very shallow.
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I was playing with continuous shooting mode on the #Yashica Samurai x3.0 yesterday and captured a few frames that I turned into a very short #film using iMovie. I was inspired by @stigofthedump.bsky.social. I will be playing with this more now that I have started to sort it out…
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A few leaves yet remain…
📷 Yashica D (with Rolleinar 3 close-up lens)
🎞️ Kodak Ektar 100
🧪 Cinestill CS41
📷 📲 Epson V600
#mediumformat
#Yashica
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
A close-up of three yellow leaves set to the right half of the frame, the background of which is pleasantly blurred.
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I did a comparison of the Yashica Kyocera Samurai x3.0 and the Samurai x4.0. The x4.0 is the winner. Images are more consistently exposed & sharper. Shutter and zoom controls are more responsive. And the x4.0 catches focus much faster than the x3.0.
Shot with the Samurai x3.0 Shot with the Samurai x4.0
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I get so pissed when I see people hating on Trump by criticizing his weight or making other comments about the size and shape of his body. Look, there are SO many reasons to hate that bastard, but his girth ain’t one of them. Your fat friends and family are listening when you make cracks like that.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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It’s #Caturday, and S’mores modeled for me earlier this week as I tested out a Rolleinar 3 close-up filter and my new Reflx Lab light meter and tried out #Kodak Ektar 100 for the first time on my #Yashica D.
#filmphotography
#mediumformat
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#cats
Close-up of the head and shoulders of a calico cat in profile.
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I am wondering if and how I can manage to shoot through two rolls today on #halfframe cameras. That will be at least 144 shots! I have a bum knee and can’t walk much or far. Ideas for how I could stay mostly stationary but still get through these two rolls of #film and get interesting pictures?
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Well, it’s official. I went from having no Samurais to having two of them in just a couple of days. And they both appear to work. Have test rolls in them both. We’ll see how they do. The x3.0 is the “Grand Prix” (gold) version they made in 1988.
#Yashica
#Kyocera
#halfframe
#filmphotography
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Our fall color is now mostly gone. These are from a few weeks ago. Takes a while to get through 72+ frames.
📷 Kodak Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
🧪 Cinestill CS41
📷 📲 Plustek 8200i AI
#halfframe
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
Multicolored autumn leaves scattered across a sidewalk A pair of bright yellow ginkgo trees Yellow and green maple leaves A sidewalk winds away past trees with autumn color and fallen leaves litter the ground
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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📷 Kodak Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
🧪 Cinestill CS41
📷 📲 Epson V600
#halfframe
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
A photo of a red door with black letters reading “Employees Only”. The wall of the building into which the door is set is white above and red below. The window to the left of the door is stained glass. A security light is over the door.
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I don’t need a Zeiss lens, so why am I window shopping for one at this hour? Tsk tsk.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM