Werra Have You Been All my Life?
This is a close up of the lens arrangement of my new (very old) mid 1950s Carl Zeiss Werra 1. It’s a minimalist rangefinder (replete with olive green leatherette) style 35mm camera that I fell in love at first sight with at a local antique shop that seems to have sprung up in a local town.
It may be minimal but it is the most complicated thing to operate ever, and have had to look at so many YouTube videos just to get film into it and shoot a few frames! It seems to wind on but the shutter sounds suspiciously the same no matter what I set it to so it could well be #Outdated or #Knackered
I (eventually) loaded in a 36 exposure film, but with the weather being absolutely atrocious at the moment it may be a while before I find out if it’s a runner or not! It’s the first time ever I’ve had to use a light metre to work out the exposure, even my 1970s Chinon SLR has a rudimentary one built in, luckily there’s an app for that!
Werra Have You Been All my Life?
This is a close up of the lens arrangement of my new (very old) mid 1950s Carl Zeiss Werra 1. It’s a minimalist rangefinder (replete with olive green leatherette) style 35mm camera that I fell in love at first sight with at a local antique shop that seems to have sprung up in a local town.
It may be minimal but it is the most complicated thing to operate ever, and have had to look at so many YouTube videos just to get film into it and shoot a few frames! It seems to wind on but the shutter sounds suspiciously the same no matter what I set it to so it could well be #Outdated or #Knackered
I (eventually) loaded in a 36 exposure film, but with the weather being absolutely atrocious at the moment it may be a while before I find out if it’s a runner or not! It’s the first time ever I’ve had to use a light metre to work out the exposure, even my 1970s Chinon SLR has a rudimentary one built in, luckily there’s an app for that!