Ferrania P33 (620)

Penso che Ferrania non abbia mai costruito una camera per pellicula 620, e perciò l'ho ficcata nella 1938 Kodak/Nagel. Ha perso un pò di sensibilità, ma: no velatura, dopo 44 anni!

A German History

1938 Germany was top of the world (well - not everybody thought so) and Leitz made my very fine Leica Standart, still performing (but I have to check that shutter!) smoothly. Six years later Deutschland war in Schutt und Asche, but when the Americans marched into Wetzlar Leitz was still making my 9 cm. Elmar! You definitely can see it has been in the wars, but 1945 was hell. And again six years later some people had the money to convert my Leica and put a CRF on. Wir waren wieder wer! (I cannot translate that, it's a feeling with many aspects...) And today, in the city I love, we are finally repairing and enjoying life.

On the 1938/51 Leica was the 1945 Elmar 90mm F4, July 1999 Tmax100pro.

The accidental photographer

Well, at the moment I àm experimenting with double exposure, but this one was not intended. Or was it? I bought a new shaver, yesterday!

The Accidental Tourist, 1985 Anne Tyler

B means Bulb

Very posh, but also dark, those "Schadow Arkaden" and most Brownies don't have many possibilities. So I put it on the handrail, exposed two or three seconds (I wasn't very concentrated) at F32 (the Kodak manual stricktly forbids you to use that on I, only B is allowed...) and hoped for the best, on FP4.

The 1930 Kodak UK Brownie 2 does need some extra cleaning, the negative was very scratched.

Back to the water

1 Meter higher today, but I got distracted by a young girl and a young gull - and a mallard who was afraid to get her feet wet!



Canon (Mirror) Reflex 500/8

Perpantic 1946

This 1946 Perutz Perpantic was probably the first film produced in Germany after WWII, with American money. 90 Secs exposure at F9 in the Argoflex 1949 (I don't have a German 1946 camera)

The Jar is grey and blue "Steingut".

Small picture: this is how fresh Perpantic performed in 1937...

Survivor

This pre 1946 film crumbled in the spiral and the pieces I got in came out divorced... but I managed to catch something on a piece of glass, and here it is!
"1946" Because I bought it with the Perpantic above, but this one burns like magnesium, so it could be older, I don't think it's nitrate, strange stuff...
Look below, and at my Flickr Photostream "Miracle" for the details.

The bowl is gold, grey and red painted on cream, from the famous Royal Ivory KPM, around 1932.