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Barbed Wire

Mountain view

What an amazing gradient in the sky. How did you manage to nail that? Composition is sublime as well.

William van Horne school.

I am happy with it. Expired in 2015, but I could shoot it normally. Lost less than a stop of sensitivity. Some samples here.

Awesome! Thank you so much. It looks like a + and a - character, side by side?

This is the first time that I use the "red window" on my Voigtlaender Bessa II with Rollei PAN 25 film. After the arrow rolled by, some time later, this appeared in the window. It could be a '1' but I recall that other films would have a clearer number showing, using an unmistakable '1'...

Voigtlaender Bessa II rangefinder.

I have sealed the film holder, and am ready to try again, this time with a Hermagis Anastigmat 1:4.5 210mm. Loaded with Ilford Delta 100, this time.

Yeah, the shutter is in pretty good shape, other than perhaps the 1/200 and 1/400 being too slow. When I got it, the shutter curtain was full of holes, but I took a chance on it, and patched the curtain with liquid tape. That method works well. If you can find a Rittreck with deteriorated...

So... first roll is back, and I have quite some issues to fix. 1. there are light leaks. 2. the film loading was messed up, the first frame taken at 30% into the roll, missing the last 3 images or so. I had wound the spool until I saw (1) in the frame counter, too deep into the roll. Not sure...

What a great resource! Thank you for sharing that link. That author did impressive work.

If you are open to large format, in the early 1900s, soft-focus lenses were en-vogue for that “painterly look.” For instance, Wollensak Verito Diffused Focus Lens. https://apenasimagens.com/en/verito-veritar-wollensak-en/ Not sure if soft focus lenses were ever made for medium format? But it...