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Following on from yesterday, this is the first photo that I took using B&W film in a 1950s Zeiss Ikon medium format camera that I was given recently. It shoots square 6cm x 6cm negatives.
The photo is shot looking upward in the glass and steel stairwell in Manchester Art Glallery.
The photo is straight off the 6mp digital scan that was supplied on a CD with the prints I ordered. There's no post processing at all apart from minor dust removal.
The exif data will be meaningless as it will relate to the scanner. The camera info is:
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16
Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 C41 B&W medium format 6cm X 6cm film
Shutter speed: 1/50th
Aperture: f8
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@sunstonemaria: Thanks Maria!....have you tried shooting with medium format film yet?
@Gérard Beullac: Thanks Gérard!.....the lens is a fixed focal length and approximates the view you'd get through a standard 50mm lens on the equivalent 35mm camera so I wouldn't have expected any significant optical distortion.
I guess the thing that surprised me the most about it personally was the nice sharpness, contrast and tonality (some of that is due to the properties of the medium format film of course!). That those aspects of a 50+ year old camera can rival the best that modern digital SLRs can offer was interesting.
The big advances in camera technology during the last half a century relate more to flexibility - I can rely on my modern Nikon D700 to get the photo I want in almost any light conditions and it is equally good at action photography as it is landscapes - this Zeiss camera is much slower to use and much more restricted in the way it can be used.
This image has been featured in 1 Remix collection.
FUJI FILM SP-3000
