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Dave Carroll — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:49:49 +0000

Yashica Electro 35, Tri-X

Removing Haze from Leitz 35mm F/3.5 Summaron Lens

Dave Carroll — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:53:51 +0000

As mentioned in my previous write-up, my Leitz 35mm F/3.5 Summaron was plagued by haze on the internal elements which caused fairly bad flare in images taken with it, particularly when shot toward any bright light. It’s a common ailment with this particular lens, and can ruin what is otherwise an excellent performer. With this in mind, I decided to tackle stripping down and cleaning the lens myself. Fortunately, the whole process turned out to be relatively easy.

Cades Cove

Dave Carroll — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:52:45 +0000

A few shots from an early morning trip up to Cades Cove with Dee this past weekend, all taken with a Rolleiflex 3.5 E on Kodak Tri-X.

Cades Cove

Rolleiflex 3.5 E Test Roll

Dave Carroll — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:31:03 +0000

I wanted to test my newly repaired Rolleiflex so I enlisted the help of a work colleague to model while I shot a quick roll of Tri-X. There is a little bit of flare in the contre-jour shots, but I wasn’t using a lens hood so I expected that. Overall, though, I’m very pleased with the results from my bargain bin Rolleiflex!

Rolleiflex 3.5 E Planar, Kodak Tri-X

Rolleiflex 3.5 E (K4C) Planar

Dave Carroll — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:45:18 +0000

I popped into a local photo store the other day to pick up some C41 processing and noticed a Rolleiflex Automat in their used used camera display. I already have two Automats, but I still gave it a quick once over. Noticing me looking at it, one of the sales staff half-jokingly asked if I wanted a cheap, non-working Rolleiflex to repair. I said, “Sure, what is it?”. He went to the back room and returned with a 1956 3.5 E with Carl Zeiss Planar lens.

Sockies

Dave Carroll — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:46:35 +0000

It was a beautiful day on Sunday so I grabbed Dee and her collection of ridiculously bright socks and headed out to shoot some film. I slapped the 28mm F/2.8 AI-S Nikkor on my Nikon FA body and, as there were some nice clouds, I added a polarising filter to enhance them against the blue sky.

Kodak Gold UC 100 ASA

For this second shot, I used some very expired Kodak tungsten-balanced film (EPY) and cross-processed in C41 chemistry.

Maternity Shoot

Dave Carroll — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:46:04 +0000

Maternity Shoot

This is from a friend’s maternity shoot last week. I used a Nikon FA with 50mm F/1.2 lens with available light only. She was a great model and we managed to get some wonderful shots before the light went (curse those Spring storms)!

Used at or near it’s maximum aperture, the Nikon 50mm F/1.2 lens gives a lovely soft rendering to images that worked perfectly here.

Nikon FM2n

Dave Carroll — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:33:02 +0000

Nikon FM2n with 105mm F/2.5 AI Nikkor lens

My newly acquired Nikon FM2n, shown with a 105mm F/2.5 AI Nikkor lens. The body shows some signs of it’s 25 years or so of use, but it performs beautifully. The light seals and mirror foam had disintegrated into a oily black mess, but after a good clean and some new seals it’s ready for another 30 years of picture taking!

Nightstand

Dave Carroll — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:41:55 +0000

"Nightstand"

Shot with a Hasselblad 500C/M with 80 mm Carl Zeiss Planar lens on Kodak Tri-X 400 film.

Coming Home

Dave Carroll — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:15:38 +0000

"Coming Home"

A lone vehicle meanders along a dusty East Tennessee road.

This is a photo I took on the weekend to test my recently acquired Tokina AT-X 80-200 mm F/2.8 zoom lens. The Tokina was one of the better third-party zooms from the eighties and, although not quite a match for the lenses from the big name camera manufacturers (Nikon, Canon, etc.), it still has a reputation as being a decently sharp optic, and is significantly cheaper on the used market too.