Film Camera Week for June 2

[Mike Gammill]

In keeping with the telephoto theme I started with, here are a couple more, this time with an old 500mm f 8 preset lens.  I used it on a Minolta XE-5 with Fuji Superia 200. Tripod mounted.

 

[rick_drawbridge]

Some from a Minolta Alpha 7 with a 24-105mm Minolta f/3.4-4.5 lens. The film was Kentmere 100 developed in Adox FX-39II.

Market

Abstract #52

Rakish

Tambourine

 

 

 

 

Edited June 4, 2023 by rick_drawbridge

[gary green]

A couple more from the Franka Rolfix II with 105mm f3.5 Rodenstock Trinar.

Arista 100, HC-110, Epson V600.

Lighting The Way

 

Bleached & Beached

[chuck_foreman1]

Excellent.. I suspect the Tri..in the lens name identifies it as a Triplet... but hey!! I am overwhelmed frquently by such lens' performance.. I suppose the trick is stopping down enough. That said, the Tessar lens is going to stopped down equally and then the difference is negliible. NBearing that in mind ... how open are you on the second exposure..and how hard was the focus or were you just lucky? 🙂

 

 

[gary green]

Thanks Chuck @chuck_foreman1.  Yes, the Trinar is a triplet but I usually don't shoot it any wider than f5.6.  The second shot was 1/50 @ f8 and it took a couple of attempts to frame it correctly because the camera doesn't have parallax correction in the viewfinder.

[chuck_foreman1]

These "finders" if you can call them that are often useless. Luckily, I generally want the landscape view. I recall seeing an article on Rik Olesons site many years back regarding finders and the evolution as well as the physics. Finders did improve by the 50s though many were very squinty . I have a few cameras that just never seem to produce a reasonable result.  I have a dual format Bessa and using that in 645 is/was horrendous. I have never tried the Bessa ! which I have It takes a similar approach in masking the finder. .. so I haver yet to try it out.  Well BIG is better  right 😉