aleceiffel

A shot of my Niece looking absent minded and another of the local beach. These were shot on a Canon VL2 with my favourite wide-angle LTM, a W-Komura 35mm f3.5. I took a chance on it about 6 months ago as a replacement for a Jupiter 12 that I was constantly fearful of damaging the rear element on (and a worry every time I screwed it into the Canon). Very little about it on the web, but it's more than just a third-party curiosity. The lens is very sharp and has really nice tonal rendition.

 

 

A couple that I shot about a year ago on Rollei APX 25 that I've just got around to scanning. Can't remember the the camera but I think it might have been a Olympus 35 SP.

 

 

I'll try again, at a reasonable size!

 

 

 

 

 

 

First post-Xmas wander. Experiments in grain with a pocketful of HP5 30 years past it's expiry.

 

Some I shot in the mist this morning of the Victorian water tower near my house. Shot on Macophot UP400 (FM2n & 20mm) and developed in Rodinal 1+25. Not my best day due to light leaks and a snapped film which resulted in me having to crop the shots.

I shot this about a year ago on a Konica S3 Auto that I no longer have and Fujicolor 100. I just got around to doing some tonal adjustments in photoshop.

I've been playing with my Zeiss Maximar 207/7 and trying x-ray film (it's hard to get much 9x12 film here in the US and this stuff is really cheap!). I haven't completely settled on an ISO for it yet, nor on the best developer. Tried D-76, RO9, and a couple flavors of Caffenol. These are Caffenol C-H(rs) 12 min.

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@jpalmer57 you wouldn't know it's cheap film from the photos. Really nice tonal qualities.

 

A few from the summer shot on Fujicolor 100.

 

Didn't go far last week, so these are shot in or near my house. All shot with a Nikkor 55mm Micro the bushes on Plus-X, and the other two on Orwo Pan 125.

A couple of still life's with the plus-x and a Halloweeny shot on my Perkeo II with a roll of 220 FP4 I needed to use.

 

A few lunch hour photos from last week shot on some 40 year old plus-x I got for a song. I had to rate it at 25 ISO after the decades had reduced the speed. The camera was a Nikon FM2n with 20mm lens - developed in Rodinal 1 + 50.

Mate, what if I said it was a Yashica Yashikor? Well at least the same as a Yashikor, and I doubt anything to do with Tomioka. I run a website, www.yashicatlr.com, which focuses on the development and history of the TLRs but also covers Yashica's first 35 mm cameras. Everyone knows that the YE was released with a 5 cm f/2.8 Yashikor and the YF with a 5 cm f/1.8 Yashinon at first, renamed as Super-Yashinon later. However, the YF is also found with a pretty rare 5 cm f/2 Yashikor and that is identical in every way, except in name, to your Leonon.

 

I would like to pretend that I am clever and noticed that first but in fact Awano Mikio (or Mikio Awano, I'm not sure) of the Japanese enthusiast's magazine, Camera Collectors' News, noticed it way back in 1985. Camera-wiki.org mentions little about the YE and YF but Awano Mikio's/Mikio Awano's name and/or Camera Collectors' News are referenced in quite a few articles about rare Japanese models.

 

The link to the lens on my website is Yashica YE & YF. There are a couple of pics I have "borrowed" from the net plus pics from Awano Mikio's article.

 

At this stage, I can't begin to guess the maker but this is the little I know. There seems to be two versions of the Leonon, both with same/similar aperture design. The "other" Leonon probably looks somewhat like the Topcors but the aperture is different with the Topcors using straight blades, albeit with 10 blades like the Leonons.

 

I would like to use your photos on the website if I could. If you are agreeable, I would need your name to credit them. My contact details are on the first page of the site Yashica TLR. If you want, I can provide a copy of Awano Mikio's article and translation.

Hi Paul, thanks for the info. You're welcome to use the photos, don't worry you don't have to credit them to me. They're just snapshots, not really pictures I value, I just took them for documentary purposes.

Welcome to Abstract!!

Thanks Michael! :)

Possibly an Olympus OM-1? I know my old college used OM cameras for the students because they had manual functions, and were of good quality for a relatively low price.

Love my FM2n. It has never let me down.

I would definitely 2nd all those who have mentioned the Olympus 35 RC & the Olympus XA, (both very small and pocket-able with great lenses). The Konica S3 Auto is slightly larger but with a fantastic lens. The Konica C35 rangefinder is also worth mentioning, if you learn to recognise them from slightly different (C35 Auto etc.) models, you might get a bargain on eBay, it's small with a very nice lens - but be careful, there are many different versions of the Konica C35.

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I would definitely 2nd all those who have mentioned the Olympus 35 RC & the Olympus XA, (both very small and pocket-able with great lenses). The Konica S3 Auto is slightly larger but with a fantastic lens. The Konica C35 rangefinder is also worth mentioning, if you learn to recognise them from slightly different (C35 Auto etc.) models, you might get a bargain on eBay, it's small with a very nice lens - but be careful, there are many different versions of the Konica C35.

I bought a 100ft reel of 40 year old Kodalith Type 3 recently, I've yet to test it and find out how low to rate the speed after all this time, but assuming it still works I wondered what other members experiences with lith film and different developers are. I've bought some Adotech IV developer just out of curiosity to see how this low contrast developer works with Kodalith. Has anyone else tried Kodalith and Adotech, and what kind of results did you get? I will try it myself at some point just to scratch that itch, but I couldn't find any net reference to experiments with this combination. Any photos using lith film with different developers would be appreciated.

Nowadays I don't toss stuff in the bin, I just don't scan.:cool:

I used to be of that mind Mike, but I found it a pain getting to the stuff I liked through some of the junk I'd kept.

Thanks Mike, you didn't see the pile that went in the bin! :)

Sorry, I meant Rick!

Mike Gamill said:

 

Nice work, Mike. On the strength of your post I've just bought a Tamron 28-200 f/3.8-5.6 XR Aspherical IF Macro; it will take a couple of weeks to arrive from Japan but I'm looking forward to trying it out.

 

Impressive images, aleceiffel!

Thanks Mike, you didn't see the pile that went in the bin! :)

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