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Lancaster PA474 & Spitfire P7350 (Mk IIa) & Hurricane PZ865 (Mk IIc)

35mm film photography

Leica iic

Canon LTM 50mm f1.8

Kodak 200

Leica R7 Summicron 50mm

Konica Infrared 750nm (red filter) Spur SLD

printed 2010 onto Agfa MCP 312 18x24

SE6blue 1+10 and finisher blue 1%

toned in Selenium MT1 1+20 2,5 min

bleached (dil.1+80) and redev. in Thiourea

Evaluating the 35mm Retina-Heligon accessory lens for the Retina IIC

PZ865 being flown by Group Captain Mark Flewin, the station commander of RAF Coningsby, at The Shuttleworth Collection Military Airshow 2019. PZ865 was the last Hurricane to be built.

Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - (BBMF) - RAF Coningsby - Battle of Britain Air Show - Duxford - Cambridgeshire.

Battle of Britain Air Show 2017 - Duxford - Cambridgeshire.

Kentmere 100 shot in the ever rewarding Kodak Retina iic and developed in 510 Pyro.

Captured on Kentmere 200 with the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Kentmere 100 shot in the Kodak Retina 11c and developed in 510 Pyro. 50mm lens and yellow filter.

Collection of accessories for my lovely Kodak Retina iic. Two closeup lenses, in front of a skylight and yellow filter. Behind them to very nicely engineered little closeup rangefinder for using with the closeup filters. Behind that a little box in the unmistakable Kodak yellow. The box of for a mini lens hood for the 50mm lens.

 

People talk about pancake lenses... the 50mm for one of these is little bigger than the 36mm filters. The 80mm is a bit more of substantial item, but still only the size of a lot of 50mm lenses. The 80mm sticks right out the front, so you can't fold the camera up with it attached, the 50mm has to go back on. It's a little scary when doing a lens change as the lenses go on a small bayonet with only a small movement to twist them off. Once removed, the aperture and shutter blades are right there in the camera body for all to see... a graphic reminder of the need for quick lens changes to avoid dust. Somethings don't change.

 

Scene was just on 3 inches before the crop.

  

Squadron Leader Mark 'Disco' Discombe taking off during the Duxford Battle of Britain 75 airshow.

Wearing a South East Asia Command (SEAC) scheme, this Hurricane could definitely pack a punch in missions over Burma with its four 20mm cannons.

Taken in April with the Kodak Retina iic. Film, Ilford FP4 developed in 510 Pyro.

 

Kentmere 200, taken with the Kodak Retina iic and developed in 510 Pyro.

Testing my new Retina IIC (big C) with standard 50mm Retina-Xenon lens, orange filter, and Astrum Foto 200 processed in D-76

Kentmere 100 shot in the ever lovely Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Kentmere 400, shot with the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Port at sunrise, captured on Kentmere 200 with the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Retina IIC test, serial 50074

Retina-Heligon f2.8 lens

Delta 400 at 200 ASA, processed in FA-1027

Calm waters just before an early morning swim. Taken on Kentmere 100 with the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro..

Group Captain Mark Flewin, the station commander of RAF Coningsby, taxiing PZ865 at The Shuttleworth Collection Military Airshow 2019. PZ865 was the last Hurricane to be built.

Retina IIC test, serial 50074

Retina-Heligon f2.8 lens

Delta 400 at 200 ASA, processed in FA-1027

 

I've used a lot of cameras from the fifties and sixties, and there are plenty of mediocre cameras to be found - shoddily engineered and with really poor lenses. But I can assure you, the Kodak Retina IIC from 1958 is not one of those. The sharpness of the Rodenstock Retina-Heligon lens is exceptional, and it has great contrast and flare resistant. The camera itself is a precision instrument, made to last for decades. I expect this IIC has another 60 years of service in it, at minimum. Such a pleasure to use, too.

Recorded on Kodak Pro Image 100 with the ever delightful Kodak Retina iic. At the summit of Slieau Dhub late evening for sunset. Isle Of Man late May 2026.

Hurricane Mk IIC HW840, coded ‘EG-S’, of 34 Squadron, South East Asia Command during 1944, the personal aircraft of Canadian pilot, Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Whalen DFC.

Sadly, Jimmy lost his life on 18 April 1944, 5 days before his 24th birthday, during the Battle for Kohima. He had carried out 176 sorties against the enemy, 107 being over enemy territory and 23 at night. He had to his credit 3 ME-109s destroyed and 1 damaged whilst flying from England and 3 Japanese Navy Val Type 99s destroyed over Ceylon.

Kentmere 100 shot in the ever lovely Kodak Retina iic and developed in 510 Pyro.

Early morning before the swim. From the end of August until mid September, we have had some dramatic skyscapes here. Taken on Kentmere 200 with the ever delightful Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Kentmere 100, exposed in the Kodak Retina iic and developed in 510 Pyro.

The every delightful Kodak Retina iic recording mist on the top of North Barrule early September. Film: Kodak Pro-image 100, home processed. This morning the same hill has a good dusting of snow.

An SW900, originally built for the Lehigh Valley in 1957, still finds work switching at the International Intermodal Center next to Huntsville International Airport. The facility is owned by the Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority, and is served by a branch line from NS's nearby Memphis East End District.

 

HMCAA SW900 #IIC-8652

 

Huntsville, AL

April 21st, 2022

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Hawker Hurricane LF363 made a welcome return to Gloucestershire Airport at Staverton on 20th July 2022. This iconic aircraft was built nearly 80 years ago as a cannon-armed Mk IIC at the huge Hawker Aircraft factory at Langley, near Slough in Berkshire, during the latter part of 1943. The aircraft’s first flight, an air test, was completed on New Year’s Day, 1st January 1944.

 

Hurricane LF363 served operationally with the RAF during World War Two on coastal shipping protection and air defence patrols off the east coast of Scotland, and other second-line duties.

Taken on Adox HR 50 on the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in Atomal 49.

Retina IIC, Fuji Pro400H, MeinFilmLab

Kentmere 200, exposed with the Kodak Retina iic and developed in 510 Pyro

The Kodak Retina iic, exposing Kentmere 100. Film developed in 510 Pyro. The boat in the foreground is a genuine 19th century 'long liner' originally built in the Isle Of Man, probably for cod fishing. She's still sailed with proper canvas sails and makes a very distinctive sight with her sails up.

The 35mm lens for my Retina iic doesn't handle into sun shots too well, but it can still be a bit of fun and the Kentmere 200, has almost pulled this off. The kite shaped flare in the lower right is something of a trademark for this lens in this situation.

 

The film was Kentmere 200 and it was developed in 510 Pyro.

Is there still time to change the road we're on? Maybe we went blindly past the fork in the path a little while ago.

 

Shot on Kentmere 200, developed in 510 Pyro. Camera, the lovely Kodak Retina 11c 50mm lens here.

1/2 sec esposure on a tripod

* Kodak Retina IIc (with the Rodenstock Heligon)

* Kodak Tri-X

* Kodak HC-110 B

 

Here is the camera I used: flic.kr/p/2iK6W8D

Ilford FP4 exposed in the ever delightful Kodak Retina iic. Developed in 510 Pyro.

A sulky evening sky over the park. Ilford FP4 exposed in the Kodak Retina iic. Film developed in 510 Pyro.

Shot on Kentmere 100 and developed in Xtol. Camera was Kodak Retina iic with the 80mm lens mounted.

Water tower, Lawn, Texas, USA

 

Film: Fujicolor 400 processed with C-41 home kit.

Camera: Retina IIc

Topside pass during the Battle of Britain air show at Duxford.

This is a focus test of a recently serviced Kodak Retina IIC, Nr. 029 made in 1958, with the Rodenstock Retina-Heligon f2.8 lens

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This image was made at 1/4th of a second at f8.5 on Ilford FP4 film, processed in Pyrocat HD.

 

There were relatively few of the Nr. 029's made, and even fewer of them had the Rodenstock lens on them (only 4800 made, none sold outside Europe), so this camera is a fairly rare find.

(and its for sale! Message me if interested)

Shot with the lovely Kodak Retina iic and the 35mm lens. Kentmere 100, developed in some rather tired Xtol.

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