The next 7 shots were a bit of an experiment, I recently found a 135 mm external viewfinder (SHOOC) for my M2, since the camera only gives lines for the 35, 50 and 90 mm in the viewfinder. You have to focus using the split image in the camera viewfinder and then frame the shot using the external viewfinder on top of the camera. It worked quite well, allthough a few shots were spoiled by an absolute misfocus, all coming down to user error. I probably lined up the wrong lines in the split image rangefinder
, but for the rest (when I focussed correctly) it all worked as expected and the lines in this external viewfinder are pretty accurate. The viewfinder can also be adjusted downward for closer shots to prevent a paralax error and has additional marks with a smaller frame that needs to be used near the minimum focus distance (since the angle of view gets smaller when focussing closer)
For this I went to the cemetery "Schoonselhof" in Antwerp, some people call it Antwerp's version of Pere Lachaise but I think that's a bit of an overstatement, allthough some nice monuments can be found there
1: Renée (only got to the age of 6
)
2: Madame Marie Pecher
3: Angel
4: Broken and faded memories
5: Commander Gallo Galli, Italian general consul in Antwerp
6: Irrespective of faith (commonwealth wargraves)
7: Belgian wargraves
All: Leica M2 + Elmar 135/4, FP4+ developed in "one shot" Microphen 1:1 to 200 iso, scanned on an Epson V700 and finished in Lightroom