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it appears to be viral...some pens need to run out ink very soon as they work over time...
and some need to add colors to their black and white...
p.s. can someone take his pen please?
Recently someone online claimed that you‘re not a true macro photographer unless you shoot 80+ stacks of insect eyes with diffused flash etc. I guess that excludes me then… well, it‘s not like I call myself an macro photographer regularly anyway. I mostly call myself an photographic experimenter… I wonder when that title might be taken away from me as well. 😂
Shot with an Agfa "107 mm F 4" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Agfa Brovira
SE5 Lith 8 minutes, followed by Lith G 3 minutes.
Developer settings:
SE5 Lith A+B+D+water 50+50+40+900ml
Lith G: 800ml water + 10 Lith G + 20ml Ammonium chloride 20% + 2ml Lith D + 10ml Lith B
Kentmere 400
Agfa Isolette I
Kodak HC-110 dilution E 1+47
DSLR Scanned with Nikon D700
Tamron Adaptall 2 SP 90mm f/2.5 tele macro
Process with Affinity Photo 2
medium format camera
year of construction approx. 1950/51
with three shutter speeds only: 1/25, 1/50, 1/200 plus bulb
Agfa Clack, 1954 - 1965, 95mm Meniskuslinse, f 11 und 16, 1/35 oder B, Fixfokus, für Agfa Isopan 17 (120er Rollfilm)
19,50 DM
Bitte keine Awards und Bildchen!
- Please no awards and banners! -
It's been a while since I last added a camera to my collection, in fact I'm in the process of trying to downsize it, but I just couldn't pass this reasonably priced little Flexilette, a camera that had caught my eye several times in the past.
It is a rather unique camera in a sense that it's a TLR using 135 film. Only a handful other cameras by other brands used a similar approach, the pre-war Contaflex being the iconic model for this type of camera.
The Flexilette is a fully mechanical, all-manual, meterless camera the taking lens being a 2.8/45 Color-Apotar which according to online sources is a coated triplet. This fact alone puts the Flexilette in consumer / amateur enthusiast territory, although german triplets often produce stunning results, I for one am very pleased with the Triotar on my Rollei 35B.
The camera sports a waist-level finder which is not very big, but it's quite bright, definitely better than the finder of the Praktica VLC or the EXA-1 from behind the Iron Curtain. Focusing is aided by a retractable magnifying glass and a split-image rangefinder on the focusing screen. The finder is not interchangeable with a prism, so if one wants to shoot with the camera at eye level, they have to compose through a sports finder of sorts that is formed when the WLF flaps are deployed. Take care not to loose the small knob that releases the finder shaft, as it can be easily unscrewed during cleaning or carrying the camera in a bag.
Size-wise, the camera stands in a grey zone between a compact 35mm camera and a small SLR and it feels quite hefty with the lens protruding only a couple of centimeters, the shutter speed and aperture rings being quite narrow but easily accessible and moveable without feeling crowded.
The frame counter is manually reset and counts backwards from 36 as the frames are exposed.
My camera came in exceptional cosmetic and functional condition, along with the peculiar dedicated slip-on lens hood (it's the circular contraption visible on the right) and the close-up attachment of similar configuration which brings minimum focus distance from 0,6m to 0,38m, but sadly without a leather case. Build quality is good, but definitely not up there with Voigtlander or even Zeiss-Ikon. While some parts feel very solid, others feel like cutting production cost was a high priority in the minds of Agfa engineers. Overall operation of the camera feels quite smooth though, the leaf shutter (1s - 1/500s) is really quite and the focusing ring still turns very smoothly.
Overall, an interesting concept camera which wasn't a commercial success, although Flexilettes are not that difficult to find on the german auction site.
Cámara: Bronica EC TL + 6x4.5 Back
Película: Ilford Delta
ISO: 100
Velocidad Obturación: -
Apertura : -
Distancia Focal: 40mm
Objetivo: Nikkor D 40mm 1:4
Datos Revelado
Revelador: Rodinal
Paro: Fomacitro
Fijador: Agfa Fix Ag
9 min 20º
Dilución 1:25
Agitación estándar
A two tray attempt with Agfa Igestat. Lith 1+18 & Lith G
Setting 5 G + 10 NH4Cl + 5 B + 600ml and 2ml D in order to get clean whites at the edges of the paper, because the amount of NH4Cl was too much.
Das ist meine Agfa Ambiflex-Ausrüstung (allerdings fehlt das Pentaprisma, das ich dafür auch noch habe. Der Kaufgrund für mich war aber hauptsächlich der Lichtschachtsucher, denn für den habe ich irgendwie eine Schwäche. Die Objektive sind ein 2.8/50mm Color Solinar und ein Ambion 3.4/35mm, die beiden Filter in dem Köcher sind die Vorsatzlinsen I und II für Nahfotografie. Der Belichtungsmesser funktioniert bestens, der Verschluss auch. Der Sucher ist hell mit Schnittkeilentfernungsmesser und einer feinen Mattscheibe. Eine Besonderheit von Agfa sind die Aufbewahrungsbehälter für die Objektive, in deren Boden ein Raum für Silica-Gel ist, um die Optiken trocken zu halten.
This is my Agfa Ambiflex without the Pentaprism (i have it, but it is not in this picture). I bought this camera because of its waist-level finder - can't help it, i just love looking down into a camera. The lenses are a 2.8/50mm Color Solinar and a 3.4/35mm Color Ambion. The two lenses in the the leather pouch are closup-lenses #I and II - quite handy as the Solinar only focuses down to one meter. The light meter is working and accurate, and the viewfinder is clear and easy to focus with its split-image rangefinder and a fine ground glass. An Agfa feature of that time are the plastic containers for the lenses. Their bottom is filled with silica gel to keep the lenses dry.
Explored: Highest position: 290 on Friday, July 10, 2009
I don't know much about this camera. My parents brought it back from New Zealand a couple of months ago and searching on the internet still has us clueless. If anyone has any information, please leave a comment below ^______^
Agfa Pan 100 - Developed after 30 years
I found two old roll films in a shoe box with photos. The box moved more than five times with me and was last in the basement.
Now I have developed both films. Unfortunately, this film (the Agfa) stuck to the black paper roll. Hence the effect that looks like rain.
Picture taken in November 2020
* Agfa Silette SL
* Fomapan 400
* HC-110 B
I used this camera: flic.kr/p/2k7DcQP