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Rebekah's shot this week inspired this one. I wasn't sure that I had enough books on hand to form a sufficient rainbow, but I was certain that I had enough CDs. :-)
For Self Portrait Challenge - rainbow
On January 22, 2025,Lyon, France, I had to pick-up my GOMZ Leningrad camera from the repair shop, unfortunately ... not repaired, due to some really stuck pieces. I decided to push my way to Saint-Georges through Saint-Jean*** to purchase some Rollei RPX 400 films to replace the used ones recently.
I brought along again in my bag my beloved year-1976 Olympus OM-1 MD film SLR that is one of my preferred camera of my collection (see bellow for details). The camera was equipped this time with a wide-angle OM-System lens Zuiko Auto-W 1:2.8 f=28 mm and loaded with a Rollei RPX 400 film which is the former formula of the Agfa APX 400. I appreciate this film giving a large tone ranges and quite good image densities even in low light.
For all the frames, the lens was fitted with a generic yellow 49mm screwed filter. The light metering was done through the lens (TTL) for 400 ISO using the camera built-in CdS cell and/or my external lightmeter Minolta Autometer III (at 200 ISO to compensate the filter absorption in the daylight and 320 ISO for artificial tungsten light) with the 10° viewer for selective metering privileging the shadows areas. The weather was milder (8°C) than my last session two days before but still cloudy.
Place de la Basoche, January 22, 2025
69005 Lyon
France
After completion the film was rewound and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 12min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the camera :
My Olympus OM-1 MD was purchased from a local photography shop in Lyon, France, May 31, 2022.
Olympus OM-1 MD was commercially available from 1974 to 1978 and represented the fully mechanical SLR of a new class ("miniature SLR's") , smaller and lighter than any other SLR's of that time. It prefigured the size of most of the SLR's of the 80's.
The kit included the normal lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm in perfect condition, a Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4 f=75-150 mm with Olympus original rigid case, a Sigma Tele-Macro x2 converter, a small flash Olympus PE200 (GN 14 at 100 ISO) with case, A Crystal Titanium x 0.48 wide-angle converter (still never tested), and several 49 mm filters.
This specific OM-1 MD was constructed in Jan. 1976 according to the printed reference "ス ("su ") 615" on the back of the film plate.
The OM-system Zuiko Auto-W lens 1:2.8 f=28mm was purchased soon after from an eBay seller. To my experience it is one of the best 28mm lens I have in my collection leading to generally crisp and contrasted images.
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*** Saint-Jean is a district of the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. It is one of the three parishes of Old Lyon, with those of Saint-Georges and Saint-Paul, and takes its name from its Primatiale Saint-Jean de Lyon of the Primal of Gaul, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
Historic center of Lyon, of the protected perimeter registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site, urban site category recognized with its preserved old historic districts as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world"1 this district is with its pedestrian streets, and its important Renaissance architectural heritage (the most important in the world after Venice) the most important picturesque historic tourist district of Lyon, and one of the high places of Lyonnaise cuisine, with its many shops, restaurants, bouchons lyonnais, brasseries, bistros, and bars.
Label of a multimedia cd designed to promote the "Teatro Baralt" (Baralt Theater) in Maracaibo, Edo. Zulia-Venezuela
7 (E889 CDS, ex A4 HWD, E889 CDS, VLT 166, E160 YGB)
Leyland Lion/Alexander RH DPH49/37F
Cedar Coaches, Bedford
Harrowden, 27 May 2005
New to Clydeside Scottish
Cedar had two of these Lions, purchased from Holmeswood Coaches in 2003, and they were useful vehicles with 86 belted coach seats. Although number 1 met its end under the Elstow Road bridge, sister 7 is still in the fleet. It was among the deckers resting at the overflow parking barn in Harrowden, the other side of the Bedford bypass from the main depot, on a boiling hot May day in 2005.