Here are two shots with a Werra 5 (or Werra V) camera. That's a rangefinder 24x36-camera made 1960/1961 in the former GDR ("East-Germany"). Pretty sophisticated camera - coupled rangefinder, leaf shutter and exchangeable lenses, exposure-value-coupled settings for aperture and shutter-speed and many more great features. My copy is a bit worn and in need of a CLA.
Wanted to play with it a bit and found out that a partially exposed film was in it. Developed it today. The shots were made about 5 or 6 years ago:
Ohne Titel by Georg, auf Flickr
Werra 5 - Tessar 50/2.8, Agfa APX 100 in Xtol 1+1, exposed years ago
Ohne Titel by Georg, auf Flickr
Werra 5 too, same old roll developed today
I really miss the "real" Agfa APX 100. A wonderful film. It's latent image stability is amazing, I've developed some old rolls (exposed about 2001 - 2010) this year and the negatives came out contrasty like exposed some days ago.
arduluth wrote:
They're a ton of fun to shoot. Really wish someone made an affordable digital TLR with an APS-C or FF sensor, with a 28/1.4 or 40/2 lens.
Thanks, but no digital TLR for me, please ;-) 120 film is fine.
My first own camera was a TLR, got it already used at my 10th birthday. Still have it. My favorite TLR is a late Minolta Autocord Cds. I just never tried a Yashica TLR, a shooting buddy has a shelf full of it, maybe I should borrow one.
It might sound disrespectful, but sometimes I think every ambitious photographer (grown up in the all-digital-era) should have used a TLR and a rangefinder for at least a week. Just to get the experience.
A couple of really old ones I scanned today. One from the late seventies from (I think) South Carolina shot on Tri-X on a Pentax 6x7 and the other converted to black and white from Fuji RFP of L.A. based drummer Tom Brechtlein from the mid eighties. Actually I saw Tom's name on the Baked Potato email newslist which reminded me that I had photographed him way back when, so I pulled his folder and liked this shot the best.
billsamuels wrote:
Here are three photos I recently took using a Yashica-12 Twin Lens Reflex camera. The Yashica-12 has a Copal-SV 80mm take lens, which is on some of the best Yashica TLR cameras. I used Kodak Tri-X film 400 ASA and because I didn't have a battery for the camera's internal light meter, I use a non-battery operated Gossen Scout 3 light meter. My guestimate of the settings would be a 1/500 shutter and around a F8 or so.
This was the second roll I used in this camera before selling it. The photos are tack-sharp!!!
Enjoy and thanks for looking.
Bill
I really like the first and second shots the most. Why did you sell the Yashika? My campus has a couple that students can use. Granted, in the 4 years I have been with the campus and two of the three were checked out once. One of the students did some amazing work with it.
Like Georg, my favorite TLR is the Minolta Autocord CDS III. I tried a couple different TLRs, including a Rolleiflex, but liked the quality/price ratio of the Minoltas. I recently got one for a great price in near mint shape. Should have it back from a refoam and cleaning on Monday.
I've been sitting on this one for the better part of a year, mostly because I never finish tweaking the color. This neg was "scanned" with my Sony A7 and a Nikon 55mm f/3.5 macro. Not happy with the color of the grass. Processed with ColorPerfect (including MakeTiff) in Photoshop CS2.
I prefer the colors I get out of my Epson V550 in negative scanning mode, but other than the colors and convenience, the camera does a far better job.
If I could make my film workflow less of a hassle (and without spending a lot of money on a much nicer scanner), I could see myself shooting a lot more Portra 400.
I must say, this is the first thread I stop on (and usually the only one) here on FM. Some very fine photographers here representing a diverse focus. I would thank you individually for sharing but there are so many sharing. So thank you all!
Been a way for a while. Been having scanner issues that don't appear to be resolving. So I shipped my pakon to AES to hopefully fix. I drug out my old Epson 4490 to scan some black and white but can't find the powercord so ordered a replacement. Probably more than the scanner is worth. I have gotten so used to the ease of a minilab scanner, it is depressing thinking about flatbed use again. So I have been shooting some digital (accckkk!!). Just not near as satisfying. I was in Memphis this weekend and had a joy shooting my M5 with just the 35 color skopar and some kentmere 400 wandering around downtown. Man that was nice! Headed out to Rocky Mountain National Park this Saturday for a week and will hopefully do some serious work. I may have some stuff to post in a few/three weeks. We shall see. I am getting backlogged with negatives.
I posted this in the Forum/Misc section but I'm putting it here too:
For anyone living in the greater Los Angeles area or who is going to be here in August or September, I'm having an exhibit of portraits of musicians that I've done over the last forty years. I'm attaching a promo jpeg. The opening is August 6, 7pm and will feature portraits of Willie Dixon, George Harrison, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Manzarek, Scott Weiland, Charlie Haden, Dweezil Zappa, Philip Bailey, among others. It would be great to meet any fellow FM members from Lo-Cal in person and have a conversation. I'd like to thank FM member Huss Hardon for making this exhibit possible as it's his gallery.
Got my hands on a mint Rolleiflex T that does not seem to have been used for 40 years. After a CLA at Aperture UK it is now working perfectly again and I am very surprised with how good the Tessar lens is when compared to the Xenar on my Rolleicord Vb
A few images taken on Ektar 100 - self developped and Scanned with a Coolscan 9000
Waaay expired donated Fuji 160 NPS (thank you APUG!) in a Rolleiflex GX on a July 4 trip to San Fran
These kids were horsing around on the pier, and the girls freaked out when they saw the Rolleiflex. Funny as there were literally thousands of people down there with cameras waiting for the sun to go down and the fireworks to start. Two of the boys they were with were very cool (and one of them took my card so I could send him a copy of the pic), while the third - I call him Baby LeBron - was not so happy that the girls were distracted.
It was getting to dusk so I had to use a large aperture (no tripod) and decided the focus point should be on the sisters. It still works with the other kids OOF.
