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Film Camera Week for May 26


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Greetings, all, and welcome to our new thread.  Post all the images you like from any film camera.  A number of years ago we decided to include all film cameras so feel free to include classic gear, modern film gear, or hybrid (modern body with classic lens, etc).  Tech data if you have it as well as location.  New images as well as older ones are both welcome.  If you've been only viewing, posting in this thread is a good way to introduce yourself.

I didn't get a new roll processed this week so I've got some older ones.  The theme here is macro/close-up.

This sums things up, sometimes.

Minolta XE-5, Minolta MD Rokkor 100mm f 3.5, long exposure on Rolleipan 25

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Back at it with thises greatest hits of last year series . I will add my camera porn here as I never really know which camera I will be shooting unitl I am! 
Since the camera pics were sort of lumped togeter in pairs.. I will present them as such.  as I've been known to use d76 1:1 scanned with Epson 500. Straight negs 

Clicking in the first  group will be the Yashica 35 (paired with its inspiration ) fixed 45mm 2.8 Yashinon lens


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Playing second in the lineup and paired with it's numeric predecessor; This wonderfully colored (green with envy ;))  Werra III with the 35mm Zeiss Flektogon  (no camera w/lens pic 😞 ) 

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First four ..Yashica 35 .... last four Werra III 

 

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Sole Survivor. the adjacent tree died last year and a another piar not far away were uprooted in a storm in?? quite a few years back

 

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This is my humble trash can repository on the right .. in color; the ground is covered in pink buds 

 

 

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This is  an art museum now. I posted some similar pics from this location with a pre-war Bessa with the Skopar, here the Yashica 35

 

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This one pops a bit more than the pre-war Skopar 

 

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This and the following are from the Werra III - Bicycle path for many years to work

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This is a very deteriorated monumnt to ?? a Mariner? can't read engraving anymore

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I can't remember exactly where this was ...but some flowers - probably to test the funky RF

 

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I may have already posted this view with another camera. ...some results were better than others ..on any given day 🙂

 

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A great selection, Chuck! Here are some from a Nikon F-601 using a 28-80mm Nikkor f/3.5-5-6D lens. The film was Ilford Delta 400 developed in PMK Pyro.

Almost the Last

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Late

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Surplus to Requirements

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Would You Sit There?

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Raine and Humble

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Signage

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I had purchased a 180mm 4.5 for the Mamiya C330 but never did use it. Until today. I decided to take a few practice shots in the backyard using Foma 100 in W2D2+. Slow and cumbersome it is, especially handheld. The focus plane is razor thin at 5.6 which is where I had the aperture set.  This shot of Buddy was the only real keeper out of 12. 
 

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23 hours ago, chuck_foreman1 said:

Back at it with thises greatest hits of last year series . I will add my camera porn here as I never really know which camera I will be shooting unitl I am! 
Since the camera pics were sort of lumped togeter in pairs.. I will present them as such.  as I've been known to use d76 1:1 scanned with Epson 500. Straight negs 

Clicking in the first  group will be the Yashica 35 (paired with its inspiration ) fixed 45mm 2.8 Yashinon lens


20220501_122637.jpg.63c135ff14a2c6642c797c79fe233df5.jpg

 

Playing second in the lineup and paired with it's numeric predecessor; This wonderfully colored (green with envy ;))  Werra III with the 35mm Zeiss Flektogon  (no camera w/lens pic 😞 ) 

20160330_202642.thumb.jpg.c4ddec9d957c9049fabff8902f2d9778.jpg

 

First four ..Yashica 35 .... last four Werra III 

 

APX10015.thumb.jpg.48a5b0db4b0271fb837a9d7e356b75a7.jpg
Sole Survivor. the adjacent tree died last year and a another piar not far away were uprooted in a storm in?? quite a few years back

 

APX10022.thumb.jpg.c4eac571c3319d6d4a63b79cf6f18145.jpg

This is my humble trash can repository on the right .. in color; the ground is covered in pink buds 

 

 

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This is  an art museum now. I posted some similar pics from this location with a pre-war Bessa with the Skopar, here the Yashica 35

 

APX100-19.jpg.a48f662cbd34e668deed24199e0f2114.jpg

This one pops a bit more than the pre-war Skopar 

 

APX-09.thumb.jpg.c5d78505c326145e55f5b9154fc8708d.jpg

This and the following are from the Werra III - Bicycle path for many years to work

APX-20.thumb.jpg.a4cb9b74b155e1d3a15ba785916c4df8.jpg

This is a very deteriorated monumnt to ?? a Mariner? can't read engraving anymore

APX-16.jpg.be42a2691e3799631acb5d3075619599.jpg

I can't remember exactly where this was ...but some flowers - probably to test the funky RF

 

APX-04.thumb.jpg.a4b50b6328034bcd08ed9d97248d2956.jpg

I may have already posted this view with another camera. ...some results were better than others ..on any given day 🙂

 

It is surprising to me how much bigger the Yashica looks next to the Contax.  Is it correspondingly heavier as well?

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A few shots "Into the dark" (kinda inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon), by the new to me Topcon RE Super with 58mm f/1.8 lens. Just love the overall tactile feel of the camera and lens, wish the lightmeter was working. Fuji Neopan Acros II 100, F76+.

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It is surprising to me how much bigger the Yashica looks next to the Contax.  Is it correspondingly heavier as well?
 

It is heavier but not much about 76grmas heavier.  The dials of the Contax ar the height of the superstructure of the Yashica, but the lenghtg and width atr quite similar.
Icould make some comparison phots... if you'd like. 
Myx Contax IIa is now even more inconsistent than ever especually since the last time I played with it!  I think one of the curtains  is failing intermittently. Before I thought it was on the high speed cam (from 200 upwards) somewhere, but now It rarely fires correctly at 25 ,50 or 100, when before these were relatively consistent. 😞

 

 

 

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Thanks for the information about the Yashica--my first SLR was a Yashica TL Super back in the late 1960's, so I still retain a soft spot for the brand, but so far I have resisted getting back into buying Yashica gear since my Contax acquisitions have been costly.  My condolences on your Contax--it sounds like time for an overhaul.  My luck has been good with mine (a IIa and 2 IIIa, plus a II, III and a Kiev 4) but all except the II and the Kiev have been overhauled by Henry Scherer, so they should work!  I do wind and click the ones that I don't have film in regularly to keep lubricants from hardening and that seems to help with keeping them working like they should. 

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Thank you Mike.

For B&W developer, I like liquid concentrates for convenience and tend to stick with one for all my film. Usually I load up 2-3 rolls of different B&W film in one Patterson tank. Originally I was using Ilfotec DD-X 1+4, it was very good but a bit expensive especially considering I'm not shooting much T-grain film. Rodinal is good, but tend to be a bit grainy for higher ISO films.

So F76+ seems to me a good general purpose developer: liquid concentrate, inexpensive (1+9 dilution), and works well with most film I use. Recently I added a dash of Rodinal to boost up a bit of resolution and sharpness, when processing ISO 50/100 films. 

I would like to try Adox FX-39 II that Rick D. uses, but it seems they are not yet available state wise.

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Just got a replacement Yashica 35/1.9...inner lens was lightly etched around the edges, so after cleaning it as best as I could tested it out with some expired px-125, developed in Rodinal 1+50. I've found these cameras (when working) basically match my Leicas in sharpness and contrast. Test close range photo attached.

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