Deutschland

Yes of course I also was in Germany.
With some of the big names:
DDR PRAKTICA (top),
third Reich LEITZ and the
BRD ZEISS (left).

Look below for Russia, Italy and the Netherlands

Commercie

The "Gebroeders van Limburg" festival in Nijmegen NL.

Mediaeval aesthetic in their, and my, home town...

I almost forgot: Analoog60 is about anphot, so:
1945 Elmar 90mm on the Frankenstein,
1990 Orwo in very old Pyro(gallic acid).

The Shadow of Time

For the whole story, look at my Flickr Photostream.

Philosophy and more

ANALOGUE!

4DaysMarches in Nijmegen next week. It will rain, but today is great. And look at the girls, working with fujiFILM as if the digital revolution never happened! No phonepics, no partyprinter, and everybody is enjoying it.

With my 1945 Elmar on RolRet100 ( mostly 1/40 to avoid the shutter-problem, a real challenge for this caffeine-addict: never a lungo, always a doppio )

Nijmegen 2011

I almost always carry my Frankenstein. Looking up, bikes on a balcony, or a hunter. Biking tourists, talking ladies, granddad and the barrel-organ.
There's always something to see, nothing special, just the world.
1/40 At 12,5 mostly, on RR100. With the 50mm and 90mm Elmars.

Shutter

Today, at last, I really tested the shutter of the Frankenstein. Well, the first curtain is too slow for the second, useless at 1/500 and 1/1000, at 1/60 the right half still is a bit darker but that in fact is rather nice: I can use it as a "sky filter". No overexposed sky for me in the future!
This one 1/200 F9 on RolleiRetro100, 50mm Elmar. Small: vertical camera.

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.