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Printed on Ilford Multigrade IV, several month ago; toned in Adox selenium 1:25; Amaloco bleach 1:50; Amaloco T40 variable brown toner B 1+9 (no C additive)
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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.
selenium toned
Philadelphia city crest - the symbol-rich civic seal with two women, a scroll with an anchor and the words Philadelphia Maneto (Let Brotherly Love Endure)
13 x 13 cm
Fomatone 313 PE glossy
developed in Moersch Easylith 1+25 for 7 minutes and SE1 Sepia 1+200 for 30 seconds
Selenium Toning in Moersch MT1 1+15 for 3 minutes
exposed with a Jobo LPL 7450 with a Rodentstock Rodagon 80 f/4 and Heiland Splitgrade unit
Picture taken with a Hasselblad SWC/M (38mm Biogon) on Rollei RPX 400 developed in Rodinal at 16°C for 22 minutes.
original negative scan: www.flickr.com/photos/jt-c/12280107576/
Photographed August 1994 : Mamiya C220 + Mamiya SEKOR 80mm/2.8. ILFORD FP4+ dev'd in ILFORD ID11 (1+1,8min,20*C) & selenium intensified.Negative was illuminated on a light box and 'scanned' with an iPad mini using the FilmScanner app. Image was then processed in Flickr.
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 .
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!
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
I have to give credit to moosehd2 for giving me the idea of using selenium in Light Room. I saw his shot and what he had done with it and I immediately thought of this photo. This was taken with my little 3 mp PS two summers ago. It didn't turn out too shabby. But you gotta check out moosehd2's shot - it's awesome.
Sorry I'm so behind on comments. And family is in town this weekend so time here will be limited. I will catch up!! In the meantime, have a fabulous holiday weekend!!
Oh. This is a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Hardtop Sport Sedan.
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.
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
A late appearance of the original metered Minox subminiature, just before introducing the CdS-cell autoexposure model.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
evening walk with my ladies
Holga 120N
Delta 400 in efd (N+2)
Adox MCC in SE6 Blue
toning: MT3 & MT1 thiourea & selenium
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 !
Chrolon in its original box.
Selenium Cell Lightmeter.
Produced by the German company Bertram in c.1950.
Size and Shape are like a Vest pocket Watch. And there is even a Chain and Clip to attach to the Vests Button Hole !
Must have been designed for the very fashionable and chic dressed Photographer !!!
Bought at the annual Doesburg International Open Air Camera Fair August 2026.
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
Contax IIIa with 50mm Sonnar f1.5 lens;
“Colour Dial” model, available 1953-1962
From the 1930’s, Contax and Leica were the key players and arch-rivals in the professional camera arena. The history of both companies is fascinating. In the early years, Contax had the technological advantage. The war photographer, Robert Capa, used a Contax camera for his famous photographs of the Normandy landing.
The Contax IIa/IIIa "Colour Dial" models were the zenith of the Zeiss Ikon Contax marque. The IIIa differed from the IIa in having an un-coupled selenium meter on the top plate. The shutter speed dial numbers were marked in three colours: black (T, B and 1 - 1/25th), yellow (1/50th) and red (1/100th - 1/1250th). Unlike earlier models, the IIa and IIIa had a standard PC socket at the back. The colours identify one of three flash synchronisations: M (black), X (yellow) and FP (red). The post-W.W.II line of interchangeable lenses for the IIa/IIIa eventually grew to a total of 16 lenses with focal lengths ranging from 21mm to an extraordinary 500mm. Shown here is the highly rated factory-coated 50mm f1.5 Sonnar lens.
Production of these cameras stopped in 1962 due to pressures from various sources. The introduction of the Leica M3 and M2, the Nikon SLRs in 1959 and competition from other Japanese camera manufacturers (whose production costs were significantly lower) all played a part in the demise of Contax.
For more information:
johnlind.tripod.com/zi/zeissikonframe.html
www.cameraquest.com/zconrf2.htm
Ivor Matanle; Collecting and Using Classic Cameras, 1986, Publishers: Thames and Hudson
Ivor Matanle; Classics to Use; in Amateur Photographer 16th September 2006; pp 35-39
[Photo taken with:
Rolleiflex 2.8F,
80mm Xenotar lens with rolleinar no 2 attachment,
Fuji Acros ISO 100,
Developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9.5mins at 20C,
Scanned at 32000 dpi using Epson F-3200 scanner,
Processed in CS3]
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
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.