Testing... 6

And comparing Ilford FP3/FP4. Not bad, hey? The left one is "antique brown" because I thought it was the old FP3!
Well, in fact there is some spotty fog, but who cares.

Kontraste (Three women)

Minus: wegen Parkplatzmangels steht mein Auto in Heerdt. Plus: in der Strassenbahn funktionieren sämtliche Stempelautomaten nicht. Und das Wetter!
Lammsteller mit Plavac in der Bergerstrasse, al fresco natürlich. Stracciatella an der Promenade.
Man gönnt sich ja sonst nichts.
Aber: die drei Damen machen mich nachdenklich...

Ilford FP4 hinter'm 80mm Industar-29 aus 1973.

Light

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.

Development time

Well, it is printed on the box: 2 min, so why didn't I believe it. But: 5 min Rodinal produced heavy black, well, not fog, let's say background. But perfectly scannable. Well done, TACMA, (still exists: www.tasma.ru/)! In my also Russian Horizon, 1/2 sec at F4.

Testing... 5

And comparing: Technical pan against AgfaOrtho. Well, the Kodak was overexposed, so more than what everyone says: at least 50, I would say. Both films are, of course, rock hard. But: the ortho should be blind for the reds, and the technical over-sensitive, and look at the shops in the picture: the left one is pink, the right one is green; see the difference? Me neither.
1/60 At 5,6 in the morning sun, both Zeiss lenses (more or less: 1956 Novar and 1964 aus Jena). No data on the films, Technical was discontinued 2004, the AgfaOrtho looked older.

Then and now 26

Yesterday my niece gave me a school picture of my father. I never saw it - and suddenly I realised that, seventy years later, I went to the same old building to take a Turkish course! There is a new school now, couldn't find a picture of the old one but the houses in the background (where my second piano-teacher lived) are still there.
(Nr 1 is my father, nr 2 is his twin-brother.)

RolleiRetro100 in the Horizon202.
(PS Curious? My family-album is on facebook...)