Got the results in from the first roll through the Grandfathers LeicaIII/50 f:2 Summar, and these are SOOC straight from the lab, via their scanner. All shot on the same roll of Kodak Ultramax 400, using the "Sunny 16" as a stepping off point. Not that the lens goes to closes down to 16, its aperture scale ends at 12,5, so some gut feelings was used as well as higher mathematics, with grain galore.




I managed to open the camera, thinking I had rewound the entire film, but no such dice. So parts of it is proper ruined, and some has a certain amount of light-haze going on, not sure what the proper term is in English for that, in Norwegian it is "Sløret", so light-haze will do.
General take on the shooting experience is that it is somewhat clunky, which may stem from me being a rather larger sized fellow with ample sized hands and a huge head, the entire camera fits in my hand lengthwise and I can close my fingers around parts as well. The rangefinder is rather miniscule and my eyesight isnt what it used to be, but I managed to nail some sort of focus all around. The Sunny 16 rule with applied maths seems to work decently enough as does the camera and lens. There may be a certain haze going on in the lens, even if it is said to be less than stellar in applying contrast. How much of that, that is lens haze, light haze or F-Upping of the shutterspeeds is to be decided. It certainly is not crisp, in any regular sense of the word, but overall I find the pictures to have some sort of "charm" for the lack of a better world.
I will get another roll of colour film to run through it and take care of fully rewinding it the next time around. Probably a 200 ASA one, as the grain of the 400 is rather much.
Overall, its was not a bad experience, shooting a 100% manual camera. I think it is at least 30 years since I last did that and either of the two I shot with some regularity then, had the support of a light meter. (Rollei 35 and Olympus OM-1N).




I managed to open the camera, thinking I had rewound the entire film, but no such dice. So parts of it is proper ruined, and some has a certain amount of light-haze going on, not sure what the proper term is in English for that, in Norwegian it is "Sløret", so light-haze will do.
General take on the shooting experience is that it is somewhat clunky, which may stem from me being a rather larger sized fellow with ample sized hands and a huge head, the entire camera fits in my hand lengthwise and I can close my fingers around parts as well. The rangefinder is rather miniscule and my eyesight isnt what it used to be, but I managed to nail some sort of focus all around. The Sunny 16 rule with applied maths seems to work decently enough as does the camera and lens. There may be a certain haze going on in the lens, even if it is said to be less than stellar in applying contrast. How much of that, that is lens haze, light haze or F-Upping of the shutterspeeds is to be decided. It certainly is not crisp, in any regular sense of the word, but overall I find the pictures to have some sort of "charm" for the lack of a better world.
I will get another roll of colour film to run through it and take care of fully rewinding it the next time around. Probably a 200 ASA one, as the grain of the 400 is rather much.
Overall, its was not a bad experience, shooting a 100% manual camera. I think it is at least 30 years since I last did that and either of the two I shot with some regularity then, had the support of a light meter. (Rollei 35 and Olympus OM-1N).
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