Monthly Archives: July 2009 I liked this photo and forgot to include it in the cemetery photos below So it has a post of its own Possibly related posts – automagicaly generated: Winter Gravy (2) The burial of the dead (0) Sculpted Cemetery (14) Pinholes (0) More Angels And A Grave (Or Two) (2)  I took the Super Ikonta for a walk, mainly to test that it functioned OK. It is a delight to use and the ergonomics are surprisingly good (if you are right handed). You wouldn’t think so to look at it. The helicals all operate smoothly, the film transport works properly and the rangefinder is spot…  The Voigtander Bessa 6×9 is lovely to use but I wanted something with a lens a little bit faster than f/6.3 and a shutter speed higher than 1/125… Now that I’ve sampled the joys of medium format I want something more practical for when I don’t want to lug the Rollei around. 120 folders are…  I recently aquired a Voigtlander Bessa 6×9 folding camera, probably dating from the early 1930s (ie nearly 80 years old). It has an Anastigmat Voigtar f/6.3 – f/22 10.5cm uncoated lens, shutter speeds T, B, 25, 50, 100, 125. Well spec’d hehe. The camera is perfectly usable with no light leaks in the bellows, clear…  Never the wrong time for a specious T S Eliot quote. It isn’t April, or a waste land or even a cruel month. But the photos are of a cemetery and burial and death. 30 years ago I lived right next door to Nunhead Cemetery but somehow never managed to get there. Now it is… |
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