Liddle Riddle

Had a little identity-problem yesterday, so here's a riddle about flash-sync. Solution (thanks roadmouse, but....) in the comment.

Very last of the summer wine?

Quiet moments at St. Lambertus, real food at the tiny market on the Barbarossaplatz, dark crisp bread, black pudding, autumn sun over the Kö. Slow pictures on FP4+ in my 635.

Grumpy old men...

...on their blingbling machines. And look how super the 1964 Gevaert now performs, on ISO not-too-much and without 6-nitro in the fog!
I love old film!

"Grumpy old (wo)men" BBC;
more of the bridge on "Then and now 6" below.

Homage to Ingmar Bergman

Then and now: 1964

In 1964 I got my Lubitel. My first teacher in photography was a school-mate of my older brother and he had a Yashica 635, with that 135 thinghy, very hi-tec (high-tech?) and a real darkroom in the cellar (rinsing-tub in the kitchen). So it seems appropriate to own one, ànd test it with 1964 REX (=Gevaert). Lost it's sensitivity, but I don't think new FP4 will make a nicer picture of my old neighbourhood's mill.

Then and now 16: fast ORTHO film

Great weather, so I put my only 1957 Ortho Selochrome in the HB, speed group E and Weston 80. Well, after 53+ years maybe Weston 24.
After lamb and sljivovica I (try to) concentrate on red flowers, yellow trees, to see that ortho-effect.
IF: because at home I discover that the back paper is stuck to the film. S***. I decide to develop the film - and when wet the paper can be peeled off, leaving the back a bit rough, but who cares. I have images! Wow! (Look at flickr for the nasty details.)

(In my youth the Strassenbahn was yellow - the right colour. Nowadays they are white/red. Or worse.)

the Last-Of-The-Summer-Wine Lecture

Nooo - only joking! But Tony Barbaro inspired me to think about (original) lens hoods. Being a contre-jour lover, hoods are important to me, so let's see what I've got.

I do not hunt for the original (on the Retina you see a simple click-on) but I rather like the Agfa one (+ plastic case) Beb gave me. And Jacqueline's Zeiss-Ikon: a click-IN, the only one I know. Then there is that rather art-deco Enna hood for the Sandmar, and her (only 8 mm, what's the use) sister on the Robin. The multi-purpose hood-cover-case on the Giel's Werra.

The picture of the Leica über-hood I stole from gifthorseuk.

I don't have the Rolleiflex (John?!), Contax, or Voigtländer Sonnenschutz - and for the Wörsching-Gegenlichtblende, well I wouldnt die, but I would do a lot!