What do you do when they refuse to hand-check your film in France and their new CT Scanners fog it up?
Resort to super heavy LR editing to create "art"..
Lovely image, one of my favorite films. My first of many Retinas was a IIIc but never made it to any of the big C cameras. My wife and I are leaving for an overseas trip to Paris and Amsterdam. When we first started planning, I knew the IIa was the camera I wanted to take. The problem was, I had already given away two of them and the guy in Corvallis wan't taking any work. Took an Ebay find to a local shop. It got a new mostly haze free lens from a donor and it's in the bag with a handful of HP5.
madNbad wrote:
Lovely image, one of my favorite films. My first of many Retinas was a IIIc but never made it to any of the big C cameras. My wife and I are leaving for an overseas trip to Paris and Amsterdam. When we first started planning, I knew the IIa was the camera I wanted to take. The problem was, I had already given away two of them and the guy in Corvallis wan't taking any work. Took an Ebay find to a local shop. It got a new mostly haze free lens from a donor and it's in the bag with a handful of HP5....Show more →
Thank you for your comments. My Retina big C was serviced this summer by Paul Barden of Corvallis. In the beginning, he didn't want to commit any time frame for the CLA and I was okay with it. But it took less than two weeks to get the camera back and he did an excellent on it. The Retina is such a nice camera and the lens (my copy had the Schneider 50/2 lens) is so good even in today's standard.
ocean2059 wrote:
Thank you for your comments. My Retina big C was serviced this summer by Paul Barden of Corvallis. In the beginning, he didn't want to commit any time frame for the CLA and I was okay with it. But it took less than two weeks to get the camera back and he did an excellent on it. The Retina is such a nice camera and the lens (my copy had the Schneider 50/2 lens) is so good even in today's standard.
I have used Paul’s services for three Retinas. The first was a different IIa (Type 016) which I donated to a member on a different site, a late Retina I (Type 013) that I gave to my neighbors son and a 1a (Type 015) which is fun to use but I wanted a faster lens and a rangefinder. I contacted him after the current IIa had been sitting in a different shop for months and offered to service it for me. It was a tempting offer and the shop finally finished it a couple of days ago.
There’s another forum member that came across a IIc that someone had transferred the 2.0 Schneider from a IIIc.
Sunset | Leica M4P | 7Artisans 28mm F1.4 | Kodak Ultramax rated at Iso 640 and developed at Iso 800 | Valoi Easy35
Pretty sure on letting go the Leica now once I put a Kentmere 400 in the Pentax P30n today, and I have a Pentax 85mm F2 incoming. Nonetheless I am pondering if I shouldnt add a FM2 or so. Nikon digital fullframes are so cheap these days, I could throw the digital and film and a couple of lenses in a bag... Getting a Pentax K-1 would be the alternative... any thoughts?
Roll 162: My Bessa II Heliar is back from CLA to fix a light leak that did not originate from the bellows. Advance Camera Repair in Portland seems to have done a mighty fine job as the leak is mostly fixed - a very tiny leak is still present on one of the frames (not shown here). The leak on the last frame is likely piping from my own mishandling during unloading. Anyway, Bessa II Heliar + HP5 developed in Rodinal (1+60, 20 minutes).
