FILM - the promised land
A photo from my first ever visit to Skegness in summer 2022. I had to do a "dry run" by myself before being allowed to take my wife and son for a day trip, largely to check that the electric car could get there and back.
I understand that in the 1940s and 50s the advertising for cameras was to ditch the old lenses and instead buy the new lenses suitable for the magic of colour film, e.g. a "Color-Skopar" rather than this "Skopar". I have to say I think the advertising was nonsense given the images from this roll of film.
Focus was just the usual "near vs far" setting on the camera.
Voigtlander Bessa folding camera from 1937
105 mm f/4.5 Skopar lens
Kodak Portra 160 film
Lab develop and scan
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FILM - the promised land
A photo from my first ever visit to Skegness in summer 2022. I had to do a "dry run" by myself before being allowed to take my wife and son for a day trip, largely to check that the electric car could get there and back.
I understand that in the 1940s and 50s the advertising for cameras was to ditch the old lenses and instead buy the new lenses suitable for the magic of colour film, e.g. a "Color-Skopar" rather than this "Skopar". I have to say I think the advertising was nonsense given the images from this roll of film.
Focus was just the usual "near vs far" setting on the camera.
Voigtlander Bessa folding camera from 1937
105 mm f/4.5 Skopar lens
Kodak Portra 160 film
Lab develop and scan
000077050001_0001