Gershwin on Ilford

#Summertime, when the livin' is easy...

one to fifty

Rodinal 1:50 and still not happy with the charcoal-shadow...

Just testing

Wòw! First sheet-film in more than 25 years. 9x12 Fomapan 100 in 1:25 Rodinal - very steep contrast. I never liked 100 ASA films, I'm a TriX HP5 man, grey, soft. The Technika IV, 1960, with a Schneider Super-Angulon f8 90mm weighs 3,5 Kg but handles very well. My CanoScan 8800 F only takes 7x12 cm but that's okay for panoramic views.

Gee-orgee-ow!

My (20+years) Sigma Mirror-Telephoto Multi-Coated 1:8 f=600mm is unforgiving. But when in focus, then it's remarkable! HP5 in Rodinal (yes!) 1:25

K.W.Anastigmat

Rainy day - I couldn't wait to test the Pilot6 ! The quality of the 4,5 75mm is visible, even in this very bad developed HP5 (Pilot has a T, B, 1/25 1/50 and maybe 1/100 guillotine, so ISO 100 will be a lot better!) The mirror-finder is very dark, but the FUN, working with this 1936 SLR!

And then came Victor.

The Leica Shop in Vienna sent me today this elegant Pilot.6 SLR. In the thirties the Kamera-Werkstätten in Dresden developed this type of camera, small, for 120 film and later (1938 Pilot Super) even with interchangeable lenses. This one is around 1936 with an almost noiseless mirror+shutter. But then came the war. And Victor.

Something from the past

MY past: as a sports-photographer. Found this negative and remembered: I always did weird things to Kodak Plus-X. Made my own developer, or cooked it in HC110 (like this one, I suppose). "Old" Canon F1, and "a" wide-angle ( I had lenses up to 600mm, but w-a's I borrowed from a friend. I took this picture hanging above the "water-feature").