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Exposure meter Gossen, Model: Sixtry, Circa: 1957, Cell type: Selenium
Measure type: Combinaton reflecting/averaging and 3D incident meter.
Gossen is a German company that, along with Sekonic, made about 10,000 different meters and gave them similar names. Gossen used the words "Six" and "Luna" often, so there are all kinds of varieties of "Luna" meters and "Six" meters. The Sixtry came out around the time that the Germans were pushing the Exposure Value System of measuring light and setting cameras. The idea was the meter would give you an EV number (a whole number, typically between 1 and 19, but negative numbers were possible) and you'd set the camera shutter and lens to that EV. The camera lens then automatically had all the shutter/aperture combinations locked in, so adjusting one automatically adjusted the other. Two unique features to this meter that make it interesting. One is the little corrugated roll-up door that covers the face and selenium cell. If you roll the door all the way back and expose the cell, it's a reflected-light averaging meter. But if you roll the door up to expose the face but leave the cell covered, it's becomes an incident meter. The other feature is an oddball: a sort of color temperature meter that uses a chart. You flip the side door open and look at the chart; there are blue and red steps and try to see which look stronger, and this tells you the color balance of the light. A chart on the emblem on the rear suggests filter combinations to use to balance the light to the film.
while awaiting the right light for the Hasselblad shot on the other side of the pond, I made some Holga shots
Holga 120N, Delta 400 rated at 640ASA in Finol
Fotokemika Varycon in Fatman
toning
MT1 Selenium 1+20 2 mins
MT3 Vario Schwefeltoner, bleach 1+50 1 min, toner setting A 30 secs
MT7 Iron blue 5+5+10+5+500ml 1 min
Have reworked this negative many times and finally produced a print that I am happy with.
8x10 print on Oriental paper
toned with selenium and variable sepia toner
A late appearance of the original metered Minox subminiature, just before introducing the CdS-cell autoexposure model.
Contax RTS III. Yashica ML 24 mm 1:2.8. Película Argenti Reporter Film 400 ISO forzado a /pushed to 800 ISO. Reveladore feitoaman / handmade developer Patapalo Fundol 1+9, 5 minutos, 25ºC. Papel Forte Fortezo FN4. Reveladore feitoaman / handmade developer Patapalo Caldolith (1+1+5) + Patapalo Fastone (1+30). Virado selectivo al sulfuro con / Selective sulphide toned with Patapalo Revirol + Virado selectivvo al selenio con / selective selenium toned with Gago Selentoner .Original 30 x 40 cm.
Mondariz-Balneario, Pontevedra. Outono 2011
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Minolta X-700, 45mm
Foma 400, f2 @ 1/15
lith print on Seagull Warmtone RC
Selenium toning brought out some interesting effects on this one!
Selenium toned shot of Ferrari 250GTO exiting Woodcote Corner, shot with the Fuji X-H2s and the 100-400mm zoom lens.
Clockwise:
Taron Marquis
Taronar 1.8/45
CDS light meter
Taron VL
Selenium light meter
Taron VR
Taron PR
Common features:
Taronar 2.8/45
Citizen shutter 1-1/500 and B
self timer
Rangefinder
This cameras were made in Japan, in the late 50's, by Nippon Kōsokki that become Taron .
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Manufactured by Zeiss Ikon, Stuttgart, Germany
Model: c.1966, (Produced between 1965-67)
35 mm film Rangefinder camera
Engravings on the top plate: Contessa LBE
Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar f/2.8 50mm, serial no. 4010794
Aperture: f/2.8 - f/22, setting and dial ring on the lens-shutter barrel
Focusing: via a ring behind the shutter w/ a handle on it, classical rangefinder matching yellow images in the viewfinder
Focus range: 1-6m +inf, distance scale on front of the lens, w/ DOF scale
Shutter: Prontor 500 LK leaf shutter, speeds 1/15 - 1/500 B+
setting and dial ring on the lens-shutter barrel
Cocking lever: also winds the film, on the back side of the top plate
Shutter release button: on the top plate, right side
Frame counter: a ring and dial beneath the shutter release,
decreasing type and manual setting, w/ film memory window
Viewfinder: Coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, w/parallax correction bright frame
Exposure meter: Selenium cell posemeter, setting ready window on the top plate, a needle just between the two red arrows,
ASA range:10-800, setting: press the small black knob on the shutter ring, and turn the ring to click on desired ASA/DIN,
Re-winding lever: folding crank, on the bottom plate,
Re-wind release: a small knob beside re-winding lever
Self timer: on front of the shutter
Flash sync. 1/30 Automatic flash control by linkage between distance and aperture setting
Hot-shoe
Tripod screw: 1/4''
Back cover: hinged, opens with a knob, left side of the camera
Serial no.G10297
+ever ready case
The Zeiss Ikon Contessa series started in 1950 and got various upgrades and re-modelings up to 1971. The early models were folding type, others made after 1960 were compact type. Zeiss cameras were very well made - even the cheaper versions, like the Contessa LBE.
Variants: There are several variants.
Zeiss Ikon was formed in 1926 out of the merger of five companies: Carl Zeiss/Jena A.G., ICA A.G., Erneman A.G., Goerz A.G, and Contessa-Nettel A.G. and was a huge corporation with offices in five cities in Germany.
The main company Carl Zeiss is most famous with designs as the Tessar and T* coating. Even now, Carl Zeiss lenses are on the many best cameras from Contax to Hasselblad.
After World War II the Soviet occupied territory included both Jena and Dresden.
At that times there were two Zeiss Ikon: One in Soviet occupied East Germany with lens and cameras manufacturing in Dresden and Jena, and a second Zeiss Ikon based in Stuttgart in the US occupied West Germany, at the old Contessa Nettel factory.
After 1959, The state owned factories in Dresden and Jena evolved into Pentacon VEB and lens manufacturing at Jena still called Carl Zeiss Jena.
In 1972, Stutgart Zeiss formed into a partnership with Yashica Corporation of Japan. Zeiss now only does lens design and makes a small amount of photographic lenses. Yashica manufactured the Contax series of Zeiss cameras.
Taken with the Ilford Obscura Pinhole camera, with delta 100 developed in HC-110b, and then contact printed on Ilford Multigrade IV matte paper and selenium toned.
Complete with dust! Bloody dust, I can't seem to get rid of it!
Happy 4th of July!
Press "L" to see a bigger view on darnk background....its worth it
Some would say the path to Freedom is expression free of boundaries and constraints while being yourself......but I think Freedom has a lot more to do with finding ways to cross chasms and gaps in our way of thinking and dropping the binds that cause us to become islands...
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
— Archibald MacLeish
Info about the shot:
Canon 5D Mark II
Zeiss 21mm
ISO 200
360 Secs @ F/8
I lit the bridge with an flashlight. Uploaded to LR 3 with some temp tweaks. Processed in SIlver Effex with a slight Selenium tone, dodging and heavy burning/ Lense falloff vignette added and burned the edges all the way around.
Yokkaichi, Mie July 8, 2012
DAYI TOYO Portable 4x5
6x7 roll film holder
super angulon 47mm F5.6 XL
TMAX 100 120
XTOL 1+1 20℃ 10min.
ILFORD multigrade FB warmtone
Korectol E 2min.
Kodak rapid selenium toner 1+20 5min.
oriental cooltone VC FB, home-brewed ansco 81, selenium 1+9, planar 50/2 zm, zeiss ikon, neopan 1600, hc-110. scanned negative: www.flickr.com/photos/501rf/5443485080/in/photostream
Resting atop my Argus C4R. German-made meter for Argus cameras of the late 1950's. Shoe mounted, it can work on any camera. Nicely manufactured.
Rolleiflex 3,5C
German 6x6 TLR. Produced 1956~1959.
The Screws that hold the Light meter Selenium cell and Rolleiflex Name Shield.
In the middle, no 1, the original Selenium Cell/Name Plate Screws.
Some clumsy "repairman" deformed them.
To the left, no 2, NOS replacement ones.
These older type screws have no provision for tool engagement so you will have to use rubber to get them out and in.
The longer Screws to the right (3 and 4) have holes in the head were a pin tool can be inserted.
Note that Screw 3 has a finer pitch thread then number 4 !
So 3 different types found (until now).
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WARNING :
This image is intended as a reference for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt !
Picture taken last year at the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire. A great event and great for taking pictures of people enjoying themselves
Nikon F100, 70-200, film was Fuji Neopan 1600 devd in Xtol stock for 5.75 mins. Paper is old Agfa Record Rapid 3 devd in Moersch Easy Lith 35+35+500 for around 8 minutes and Moersch Omega 1+100 for around 15 seconds. Selenium 1+30 for one minute
I took a bike out of Xizhou China and started riding south through villages and farm fields. Incredible.
Fuji ga645zi with orange filter, Tmax400, Ilford MGWT toned with sepia and selenium
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Took several shots of this gangly fellow.
Processing is mostly in Lightroom using selenium preset. Slight sharpening and vignette added in Photoshop.
Photo of Harpers Ferry on the potomac side with shenandoah at my back...Camera Mamiya RB67 Pro-S 50mm C lens, Ilford Delta 100 in 6x7 format. Print spec: 1:20 dilution Kodalith developed Slavich Unibrom in 11x14 format, selenium and then gold Toned, but not taken to split tone, just pleasingly rose in the highlight values.
Styria Austria
Scan from print:
Paper: Adox MCP312
Developer: Mörsch Eco
Toner: Kodak Rapid Selenium
Film Info:
ilm: Fuji Acros 100 @200
Developer: Rodinal 1:25
Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1.4G
Camera: Nikon F6
Four months ago today.
Yashica Mat Rolleinar 2 close up lens and Kodak Tri-X 400 ( The Old One) Expired
Developed in Calbe R09 40:1 12 min. Selenium toned in Lightroom.
Somewhere in the tundra of the West Fjords of Iceland. Hasselblad 150mm lens, Acros film, Rodinal film developer, printed on Ilford Warmtone with selenium toning
Holga, Efke IR820, Filter RG715 @6 ASA, Finol 1+1+85
Adox Classic Vario/SE6 Blue
Tonung: Bleicher 1+70 MT3 Vario (yellow) + MT1 Selenium 1+20 1min + MT10 Gold 3min
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
A camera like this one makes you realise the technological progress that has taken place over the last 60 years.
The principle is the same as a still image camera, only in this case the shutter has to open and close several times per second in order to ensure a moving image.
But wait, there were no batteries, so how is this to be obtained? Well, you have to manually charge a spring (lever to the front left as we look at the camera). This means that you can shoot only for as long as there is power in this spring (no more than 30 sec in a row)!
The camera is equipped with an external selenium light meter (very similar to the one to be found on the first model of the Contarex). But you need to adjust manually the exposure during filming by turning the milled wheel on the right in order to match the needles in the viewfinder.
Of course, there is no sound either.
The only modern feature is the lens, multicoated and fast (1.9 max aperture) and almost focus-free, ie by focusing close to infinity and stopping down you get everything between 1m and infinity in focus.
The viewfinder is small and dark, but it is parallax corrected and shows exposure information (match needle system).
The best of all is the extremely complex film loading system (film is loaded horizontally but must be inverted and passed vertically behind the shutter, then it must be turned again horizontally in order to enter the take up spool).
No wonder the camera is in almost new condition. It must have been a nightmare to use it.
evening walk with my ladies
Holga 120N
Delta 400 in efd (N+2)
Adox MCC in SE6 Blue
toning: MT3 & MT1 thiourea & selenium
Just another test of my "new" selenium toner. This time diluted 1+10 (0,2% sol.), rather strong but still without fading while toning.
Developer Sodium Citrate
Clearing Bath Citric Acid
ATS fixer alkaline
Right side toned: MT14 1+10 1 min
Sodium acetate developer for comparison
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.