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Digitized Digital Design Conference 2012
September 15th 2012, Athens, Greece
Photo credits:
Chryssa Gagosi bit.ly/gchryssa @chryssa
Panos Georgiou panosgeorgiou.blogspot.gr/ @panosgeor
Digitized Digital Design Conference 2012
September 15th 2012, Athens, Greece
Photo credits:
Chryssa Gagosi bit.ly/gchryssa @chryssa
Panos Georgiou panosgeorgiou.blogspot.gr/ @panosgeor
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For a photo walk along the Rhône banks, Lyon, France, I took again my Praktica IV camera but equipped this time with a Helios-44M lens :2 f=58mm, the normal lens of my Zenit 122 camera.
With the Helios-44M-6 lens, the diaphragm is stopped down automatically to the selected aperture value by pressing the shutter release but there is no auto/manual selection possible from the lens. For all the views the lens was equipped with a yellow screw-on 52mm filter assuming a coefficient of x2. The lens was also equipped with generic modern cylindric shade hood.
The Praktica camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Ilford HP5+ and exposed for 200 ISO instead of 400 to compensate the yellow filter absorption. Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The weather was relatively cloudy (13h30-16h30) giving typical exposures of 1/100s at f/8.
February 6, 2024
69002 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (= Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 6min.
The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printing framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
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About the camera :
I got the camera body Praktica IV and a set of related KDH Leipzig accessories from an eBay seller near Paris, France.. The whole arrived to me on January, 31, 2024, in Lyon, France.
The Praktica IV was designed by the prestigious KW (Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz) German company in Dresden on the basis of their previous Praktica FX SLR camera's. The camera was produced first under the KW name starting from June 1959 then within the Kombinat VEB Pentacon after the merge of the company in 1960.
166.800 Praktica IV and V (6 models) were produced until January 1966. Praktica IV essentially incorporates a condenser focusing screen plus a pentaprism. Due to the Praktica FX architecture the Pentaprism looks protruding from the camera body with an unusual style. It fits lenses with M42x1 mount and the mirror has no automatic return. The shutter is made of two horizontal curtains of rubberized fabric giving 1/500s to 1/2s plus B in two registers of slow speeds (1/2s to 1/10s) and high speeds (1/25s to 1/500s). The film is advanced coupled to the shutter cocking using either the right upper button or the rapid lever underneath the body.
The Praktica IV handles the "Auto" M42 lenses with the lever for automatic iris closing upon the release. Sequentially, when pressing the shutter release button, the diaphragm closes to the indicated value, the mirror is lift-off and finally the shutter is erased at the given value. If a non-auto (manual closing) M42 is used the pushing lever could be cancelled (declutched) moving a small red button to the right in the mirror chamber.
The camera camera came without lens but with a body cap and the original ever-ready leather bag with et "Ernermann tower" Pentacon logo. This model is likely the second Praktica IV essentially the same as the initial KW one with a different front plate. The camera was likely art of a collection and is completely preserved without use marks.
The KDH Leipzig (Kurt-Dieter Huffziger Foto- und Kinozubehör) accessories set included:
-A panoramic tripod head
-A set of three extension tubes M42x1)
- A big aluminum shade hood (screw-on 49mm) for wide-angle lens.
- A M42x1 metal body cap in its original box.
- An accessory shoe fitting the the Praktica IV eye piece.
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About the lens :
The normal lens fitted on the camera using the M42 mount is the multi-coated version 6 of the Helios 44M manufactured at Юпитер, (Оптико-механический завод «Юпитер» , "Jupiter") Valday, Novgorod region. Helios-44 lens directly derived from the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar lens 1:2 f=58mm.
It came with my Zenit-122 that was produced in 1994 by the Russian company KMZ (Красногорский механический завод, Krasnogorskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod) located in the Moscow region. Zenit-122 were also manufactured by BelOMO factory. From 1990 to 2005, about 2 millions of Zenit-122 were overall produced. The camera is built on the tough previous Zenit chassis and uses the same curtain Leica-type shutter with no slow speeds. The body is cased with ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styren) thermoplastic. Zenit-122 is equipped with a two CdS cells for light metering (25-400 ISO) using a LED indicator in the viewfinder.
Digitized eyes freed.
Grasping home.
I've justified keen laden mysteries near others pretentious qualms.
Realizing sources toward ubiquitous vectors.
Watching xylem.
Youthful zeal.
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Digitized 2011
Digital Design Conference
October 1st 2011, Athens, Greece
Copyright 2011 Anton Repponen
Asian elephant, Elephas maximus
Voigtlander Vito B | Voigtlander | Kentmere 400 400 @ 1600, +2 dev
Digitized with Nikon Z7 / 60mm Micro Nikkor | Raleno LED Light Panel | Nikon ES-2
Home developed in 510 Pyro 1:100 | 19m at 21c | AGO Film Processor
Negative Lab Pro v2.4.2 | Color Model: None | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: None
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit
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28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Epson V550 + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 | Lomography
Rodinal 1-50
Digitized 2011
Digital Design Conference
October 1st 2011, Athens, Greece
Copyright 2011 Anton Repponen
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0
Leica M3 | Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/2 ZM | Ilford HP5 400
Digitized with Epson Vuescan V550 + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0 | Lomography
Ilford DDX
After a careful study of the camera functions and handling, the great day of the test film arrived! Testing on film a camera like this beautiful Rolleiflex 3.5F (likely year 1962, see bellow for details) has something exiting and a bit upsetting as well. We will discover the real operating state of the camera straight on the film.
Rollei is not today a dead brand and the name is still used for different photographic products but not related to the production of course of the original Rollei Werke Francke & Heidecke in Brunswick, Germany, at the time of this legendary Rolleiflex TLR camera. In particular Rollei brands is used for the former Agfa line of black-and-white film and chemistry, accessories and even the newly release Rollei 35 AF, one of the rare new film camera in 2025.
When using any vintage camera kit, special attention should paid to the real state of the carry straps and ever-ready bags. The old leathers may be not resistant enough to hold safely the camera and a real risk a dropping the equipment exists. In this case it would be a impardonnable mistake...
I then used, while waiting for a brand-new copy of the original leather neck strap, a modern Peak-Design strap attached to the two holding steel axis of the Rollei bag.
I loaded a Rollei RPX100 film in respect of the protocol described in the camera user manual, passing the leader paper under the steel sensor cylinders that will detect the film start automatically. This is quite specific to the Rolleiflex. The view counter is automatically reset to zero after removal of the completed film from the camera. The counter is also automatically advanced to "1" when the (incredibly nicely carved) start handle blocks. At the same time the shutter is cocked and the camera ready to shoot. There is no special starting mark to be aligned when losing the camera. Just check that the paper end is correctly positioned and taken by the receiving spool. When OK, the handle is blocked forward/backward. After the picture taken, the handle could be moved forward until it stops and replaced backward to the initial position, for the next frame.
For all the frames, the Rolleiflex was equipped with the Rollei RII protecting filters (UV) on both lenses and the taking lens additionally equipped with the Rollei RII original shade hood. The film was exposed for 100 ISO. Light-metering was done using a Minolta Autometer III equipped with a 10° finder for selective measures privileging the shadow areas.
Documentary smartphone picture
March 17, 2025
69004 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 120-format film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm films.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG together with some documentary smartphone pictures.
About the camera
I got this stunning Rolleiflex 3.5F from a French artist near Paris, France. The camera came in it original box and leather bag with accessories and a reference book year 1955. The whole kit is in a remarkable state of conservation.
The Rolleiflex 3.5F is the model-3 that Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke produced in about 50.000 units in Germany from 1960 to 1965. The Rolleiflex originates from 1928 for the very first model and was produced still in a limited number until the years 2000’s. The 3.5F model 3 was available etheir with a Schneider-Kreuznak Xenotar taking lens or the Call Zeiss Planar 1:3.5 f=75mm as this camera. The Rolleiflex, that was a quality reference for many professional photographers in the 50’s for the medium-format 6X6 camera’s. Many worked both with the Leica M3 (starting from 1954) as small-format 24x36mm camera and the Rolleiflex for other appliances. The Rolleiflex remained one of the most iconic and trusted camera of all the times.
This specific 3.5F is labelled on the right side with nice badge made of enameled brass « T » « Telos » that was the exclusive first French importer of Rollei to France until 1972.
The Rolleiflex 3,5 F model 3 is equipped with the Synchro-Compur central shutter MXV CR00 with cone-wheel differential. The distance scale is only in meters here with automatic DOF indication.
Serial number with ‘3,5F’ prefix on of top name shield.
I detailed the camera and accessories and studied carefully the user manual and the book to before familiar this beauty before waiting for a quiet moment to prepare for a test film. I will not trust the old leather original neck strap to carry this precious machine on the field to avoid the real risk to drop the camera. I ordered a new one from a manufacturer in China. While waiting I will use my modern Peak-Design Leach safe strap .
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0
Yashika Mat 124 G | Kodak Tri X 400
Digitized with Epson V550 + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0 | Lomography
Cinestill DF96
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Yashica Mat 124 G | Fomapan 400
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0
Rodinal 1-25
Digitized 2011
Digital Design Conference
October 1st 2011, Athens, Greece
Copyright 2011 Anton Repponen
Digitized Digital Design Conference 2012
September 15th 2012, Athens, Greece
Photo credits:
Chryssa Gagosi bit.ly/gchryssa @chryssa
Panos Georgiou panosgeorgiou.blogspot.gr/ @panosgeor
Digitized 2011
Digital Design Conference
October 1st 2011, Athens, Greece
Copyright 2011 Anton Repponen
Digitized from slide. Original image taken on Olympus OM20. Digitized using Nikon D7200 with 60mm macro lens and ES-1 slide adaptor. Capture time and date approximate.
Digitized Digital Design Conference 2012
September 15th 2012, Athens, Greece
Photo credits:
Chryssa Gagosi bit.ly/gchryssa @chryssa
Panos Georgiou panosgeorgiou.blogspot.gr/ @panosgeor
Digitized Digital Design Conference 2012
September 15th 2012, Athens, Greece
Photo credits:
Chryssa Gagosi bit.ly/gchryssa @chryssa
Panos Georgiou panosgeorgiou.blogspot.gr/ @panosgeor
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Fuji GSW690iii | Fuji 65mm F5.6 | Fujifilm Neopan Acros II 100
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 | Negative Supply Co. | Negative Supply Co.
Home developed in Ilford DDX
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Leica M6 | Leica 35mm f/2.0 SUMMICRON-M Aspherical | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
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Leica M6 | 28mm f2.8 Elmerit Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 28mm f2.8 Leica | Kodak TriX 400
Digitized with Negative Supply
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: None | LUT: Frontier