bjhurley wrote:
I shot a test roll of Fomapan 400 in my new-to-me 1950s Vredeborch Felica camera yesterday and developed it this morning. The bad news is that the camera is scratching film (should be easily fixable with tape) but it is also underexposing. It was designed for the slow films of its day, and its shutter speeds are 1/50 and 1/25 of a second. Even at EI 200 my light meter was telling me I'd be overexposed, but all the shots on the roll were underexposed. But Fomapan probably wasn't the best film to test with; I'll try some Kentmere next.
On the other hand, these look like they were shot a century ago instead of yesterday, and I kinda like the look.
The seventy year old grease in the shutter has probably knocked the speeds down by half. Plus it's been sitting, unused for a couple of decades. Maybe put on an album and exercise the shutter. I like the look of the images!
madNbad wrote:
The seventy year old grease in the shutter has probably knocked the speeds down by half. Plus it's been sitting, unused for a couple of decades. Maybe put on an album and exercise the shutter. I like the look of the images!
Thanks, I'll give that a try! I inspected the camera to figure out the cause of the scratching...there is no backing plate but the film runs over two thin metal rollers and they have some corrosion on them. I wiped them down with some fine emery paper, used a rocket blower all over to remove any dust or metal particles, put in a roll of Kentmere, and we'll see what happens.
I got this camera because I saw some beautiful images taken with it by a photographer in Finland: https://flic.kr/s/aHsiRDkXPG
They have a lot of the Holga feeling, but something different and when I saw one for $40 I figured why not. They are apparently pretty rare, and usually in bad condition. The camera is shaped like a small tin of French cookies/biscuits and it opens up the same way; you pull up on the top and it comes off with the innards for loading and unloading your film.
Nikon N90S with Kentmere 400 1:1 Xtol at 68 degrees for 12 minutes. But the fun part was loading all 36 frames into my new to me 3D printed reels, and newly modified by me Nikon SA-21 strip attachment on the LS-4000. Came back after dinner and Jeopardy to a finished scanning run.
