I bought this yesterday:
It's a medium format folder as you can see ... but is it a compact? Yep, it's almost exactly the same size as an X-Pro1.
On the back it says "Made in Germany. US Zone" so we can see it's no youngster ... 75mm f/4.5 lens by Steinheil of Munich ... double-exposure lock ... self-timer ... Pronto leaf shutter with top speed of 1/200s ... scale focus only ...
I happened to have a roll of 120 (Neopan 400) from a pinhole experiment I was trying the other week, so I went over the common and took some snaps in the woods ... but I don't have a scanner for MF ... hmmm ... so I put the negatives in a 6x6 enlarger carrier, with a piece of opalescent Perspex behind it against a window, and photographed the negatives with my E-P2 + Tamron 90mm macro lens; then slurped the raw files into LR and inverted them. Had to push the contrast up a lot as this method of capture produces very very low contrast images.
Some of my usual set of test scenes, nothing special ... but I like the "look" ...
20121021-2 by _loupe, on Flickr
20121021-6 by _loupe, on Flickr
20121021-5 by _loupe, on Flickr
It's a medium format folder as you can see ... but is it a compact? Yep, it's almost exactly the same size as an X-Pro1.
On the back it says "Made in Germany. US Zone" so we can see it's no youngster ... 75mm f/4.5 lens by Steinheil of Munich ... double-exposure lock ... self-timer ... Pronto leaf shutter with top speed of 1/200s ... scale focus only ...
I happened to have a roll of 120 (Neopan 400) from a pinhole experiment I was trying the other week, so I went over the common and took some snaps in the woods ... but I don't have a scanner for MF ... hmmm ... so I put the negatives in a 6x6 enlarger carrier, with a piece of opalescent Perspex behind it against a window, and photographed the negatives with my E-P2 + Tamron 90mm macro lens; then slurped the raw files into LR and inverted them. Had to push the contrast up a lot as this method of capture produces very very low contrast images.
Some of my usual set of test scenes, nothing special ... but I like the "look" ...
20121021-2 by _loupe, on Flickr
20121021-6 by _loupe, on Flickr
20121021-5 by _loupe, on Flickr