I can share your feeling - today the sun was all a glimmer on the ice covered trees and I had no camera with me - but them remembered the Ricoflex loaded with Classic Pan 200 under the seat of the car. I took a brief walk about along the river, snapped some shots that will probably just be crap.
Just got done developing the film (it's in the wash phase). Maybe it will be ready to scan tonight - probably not, but it is a switch from the digital world where it's al there right away. The maximum marked aperture on the camera is f16 and the max shutter speed is 1/100th. I went by the sunny 16 rule (no meter available) and exposed at 1/100th - f16. I used up the last of the Microdol-X I mixed up last summer - just at the end of it's rated life - developed the roll in full strength Microdol since that has a built in 1 stop pull anyhow. Hopefully it will all work out well - I always used Microdol diluted before. I'm probably a fool to do it, but I went ot the photo store next to where I work to picked up a pack of sensor swaps. They had a bin of 1/2 off B&W film (all outdated.) I popped for a propack of Trix-X 320 - the old stuff - 5 rolls of 220 format. In a few months the glamor of the K-10D will be fading, and I'll be back to the 6x7 (maybe.) - MCC Mark Erickson wrote: > Last week I finished a roll that had lived in my Voigtlander Vitessa for > more than a year. I took it for processing over the weekend and had fun > parsing through the results. Compared to my *ist-Ds, the delayed > gratification is both maddening and fun! It's a little magical to break out > the prints and see what came of your efforts. > > By the way, if you want the best deal in a 1950's rangefinder, the Vitessa > is it. It feels like it was carved from a single chunk of metal, has pretty > good ergonomics for an old camera, and the 50mm f/3.5 Skopar lens on mine > produces very sharp pictures. They say the f/2.0 Ultron is even better--as > good as or better than the contemporary Summicrons. Vitessas seem to go for > between $100 and $200 if they're really clean. That's a lot less than, say, > a Leica iiiF with a 50mm f/3.5 Elmar. > > --Mark > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
