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Initial shot after thinking I had a good exposure. It looked a lot brigher on the LCD :)
D-70 w/ SB-600 off camera using CLS
ISO200 1/500s f/6.3 flash 1/16
No se por que me gustan tanto los perfiles de edificaciones contra el cielo...
I just don't know why I like the profiles of some buildings against the sky...
This is my first film with the Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm lens mounted on my Praktina IIa SLR during a Sunday afternoon quiet walk in Lyon, France, March 24, 2024.
The camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Fomapan 100 film and the lens equipped with an Olympus 51mm push-on shade hood (designed for both Zuiko 50mm and 35mm). No filters were used during the whole session. Expositions were determined for 100 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Shutter speeds from 1/125s or 1/60s were used with aperture from the full aperture f/2.8 to f/16.
Rue du Bon Pasteur, March 24, 2024
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+50 and 20°C for 9 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the lens :
This Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 1:2.8 f=35mm retrofocus lens has the semi-auto diaphragm preselection system (SB Spring Blende) that is not operated by the IIa version of Praktina camera's but some early preceeding versions of Praktina FX series (see www.praktina.com). However one could operate manually the diaphragm without preselection. This version of the Praktina Flektogon has no filtrer screwing mount and should use push-on filter with a diameter of 51mm.
The Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon was a first "retrofocus" design specially calculated for SLR camera's (zeissikonveb.de) In France, Pierre Angénieux conceived at the same time and independently the famous "Retrofocus" type-11 (f=35mm) lens solving by this way the problem of wide-angle lenses for SLR including an extra "dead" distance due to the reflex mirror chamber.
About the KW Praktina IIa :
The Praktina IIa followed in 1958 the Praktina FX designed by the prestigious KW (Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz) German company in Dresden.
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May 1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
went out with joe again today, most of the day was wasted, we planned on goin into an abandonned factory but we found out there was no way of getting in with out som serious breaking and entering so we passed on that idea and went to the industrial estate by our town centre, this shot was taken in a office car park.