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Chris Kern

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Snaps from 1937
« on: November 06, 2021, 06:34:33 pm »

In late September, I managed to acquire an expertly-overhauled sample of the first "serious" camera I ever got my hands on: my father's "miniature" (i.e., 35mm) Zeiss Contax II, which his father had purchased in 1938 and which ultimately was passed down to me.  I haven't had much time to use it other than to shoot a few rolls of film to verify that everything was working properly, but a couple of weeks ago I had to be in Washington, D.C., on other business and I diverted on my way home so I could make a few pictures on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building.

The Capitol on Film




Food Trucks on the Capitol Grounds



The camera I purchased, which was manufactured in 1937, came with the same 50mm f/2.0 collapsible Sonnar lens as my father's Contax.  Wholly aside from the nostalgia value of shooting with a camera I used as a teenager, I'm quite favorably impressed with the image quality.  The pictures above were made on 100 ASA Fujifilm Acros II and I scanned them at 7200 dpi.  Other than tonal adjustments and some minor spot removal, they didn't require much post-processing.
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Re: Snaps from 1937
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2021, 11:47:22 pm »

Impressive.
The first shot looks as if it could have been made in 1937, but the second one is clearly more recent.

The camera certainly works fine (as long as you can get film and processing for it.)
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