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More and more film fun with something other than a Leica M

ggibson

Well-known member
Yep, that's my son. Occasionally, he'll hold a pose long enough for me to get a capture of him on film, but usually I have to resort to my Sony camera ;)

Another shot, I was using a hood on my new 50/4 that was causing some hard vignetting, which I didn't notice for a few exposures. Chalk it up to learning. Still, I kind of like the circular shape in this one:

Swirl by Graham Gibson, on Flickr
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
He's a handsome young lad; I'm sure he's a joy and a devil... All boys are, I think. I can vouch for the devil part personally; the other you'd have to ask my mom. :D

I like this new photo as well. It kinda looks like a spiral galaxy seen in a field of grass! Very cool.

G
 

arri

Active member
Sinar F1 with Voigtlander Heliar 150mm f/3.5 Made in 1929
Picture taken with f/3.5, Fomapan 400 4x5" sheet film
Developed in Adox FX-39 II

I searched a little bid about this lens and I find out that it costs around $90 in 1930 incl. a dial set Compur II shutter.
A fine ounce of gold costs $21. Incredible how expensive lenses were. The standard Heliar 6" with f/4.5 were available for around $60. A lot of money as well.

The book: The Recognitions by William Gaddis
A brilliant story about fakes and lies, he wrote it in 1955
In German the name of the book is, translated: the faking of the world

 

arri

Active member
Voigtlander Perkeo II with the Color Skopar 80mm f/3.5
Fomapan 400 developed in Adox FX-39 II
Voigtlander yellow filter 2x

I like the voigtlander lenses and this Color Skopar is a gem, new computed by A.W. Tronnier in 1948 and he described it as nearly apochromatic corrected.
One of his other lenses is much more famous, the Apo Lanthar.
BTW: the Voigtlander lenses and cameras were made around 35 miles away from my home town.

The problem all of this old cameras is that the film is not 100% plain, in the consequence that the pictures are sometimes less sharp partial but it gives this images a kind of its own charme.

 

Godfrey

Well-known member
And now for something a little different ...

The changes to yahoo groups is inspiring a lot of my group lists/forums to move to other server hosts, one of which is the Subminiature list, a forum for enthusiasts of sub-half-frame 35 cameras. Minox 8x11 is one of the big names there. Change has awakened a few of the posters… the list has been very very quiet for years. I was one of the earliest subscribers, some time in about 1995 or 1996; several old friends that date from that time and the next half decade appeared out of the blue. Some discussion ensued, and I got inspired.

I checked my records and found that the last time I shot any Minox 8x11 film was two rolls I did in 2013. Wow, has it really been that long?

Two of my Minox cameras—an early C and a 1980s EC—were just where I put them way back then … I pulled them out, found I'd left the battery in one. Oops! But no leakage, AND the ancient PX-27 battery was still at nominal voltage! That's testimony to how tight the electronics in that even more ancient Minox EC are. :)

I used the battery to test the EC shutter as well as the Minox C shutter. Both working perfectly. So I made a decision, left the battery in the C, and loaded up a 36 exposure roll of Minox ASA 25 b&w film (Agfa APX25, expiration date 2002). Yeah. I pulled out the Minox mini tripod, the adapter for the EC flash to the C body, and the flash itself. The whole kit fits into a corner of the pocket of my bicycle bag. I carried it all on my cycle loop today and made six exposures. Feels so good to have this little camera back up and shooting again!

Photos to come when I finish the roll and process it. :D

G

"No matter where you go, you can always have a Minox with you."
 
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