The lost cameras (VI, Agfa Optima 335)

Since the beginning of my relationship with photographic gear in 1979 I lost lots of equipment.
Some cameras died, some were sold, some I gave away as gifts. Luckily the photos survived.

The Agfa Optima 335 is the cheapest model of the Red Button Optima series (335, 535, 1035, 1535).
It´s a scale/zone focus camera with a Agnatar 3,5/40mm lens.
I used it for street photography on slide film in the early 90s of the 20th century.

Yashica Electro 35CC (I)

Cute!

The lost cameras (V, Yashica Electro 35 GTN)

Since the beginning of my relationship with photographic gear in 1979 I lost lots of equipment.
Some cameras died, some were sold, some I gave away as gifts. Luckily the photos survived.

The Yashica Electro 35 GTN was my first serious rangefinder camera, bought on a flea market in 1990. I purchased later the Tele and wideangle accessory lenses with the external finder, but these are not funny to use. The camera was sold after some years in need of money.

The lost cameras (IV, Porst Reflex FX3)

Since the beginning of my relationship with photographic gear in 1979 I lost lots of equipment.
Some cameras died, some were sold, some I gave away as gifts. Luckily the photos survived.

The Porst Reflex FX3 was my fathers SLR that he gave generously to me when my interest in photography got serious.
It was equipped with a Porst Color Reflex lens 2,8/50mm (Domiplan).
When I got my own Nikon, the Porst was used as a backup until it´s shutter stopped working.

The two upper photos were taken with the 2,8/50mm, the lower with a Porst 2,8/135mm.

Statistics for 2011

The year 2011 is over and I have finished the frame count for the year:

My archive contains the following films:

120 B&W: 3 rolls > 36 frames
135 B&W: 137 rolls > 4932 frames
The Rollei project: 76 rolls > 2736 frames
Complete digital: 7500 frames

Complete analogue and digital: 16004 frames

Bencini Comet NK135 (II)

Nikon L35AWAF

Olympus Superzoom 120 (II)

Polypan F

In the next months many cameras I showed before will reappear in this blog. The difference to the former posts is, that all pictures will be shot on the same sort of film, the Polypan F.

The Polypan F is, so I´ve been told by the distributor, the emulsion of the Ilford Pan F on a thin, clear polyester base. It is normally used for copying cine films and is available only in rolls of 90m and 152m. Polypan F on Ebay Germany

I load the film into metal cartridges and usually shoot it at 100 ASA. The developing is done in APH09 (Rodinal recipe), dilution 1:100, one hour stand development with ten initial agitations. I don´t use stop bath, only water and the fixation is done with Adox Adofix.

The price of a roll is ca. 33 Eurocents, which is hard to beat.

Canon AF35ML (III)

Ricoh R1 (II)