Zeiss Nettar 6x6 Film Test

[br1078lum]

Took a walk down by the river to test out the repairs on the Nettar.  It appears to be working okay, though I did get a massive flair in one of the shots.  That may be from the scratched element, but I'll have to do another roll in brighter circumstances to make sure.  I'm not too good on judging distances in meters, as sometimes I tend to add/subtract/multiply/divide things wrong.

I shot these on Kodak T-MAX100, using a yellow filter (factor 1.5), and metered with a Vivitar Model 24 CdS shoe mount.  I was able to adjust exposures for using the filter, unless I forgot to.  And most of the time I remembered to focus, too.  These six are the ones I selected to demonstrate the camera, and the last of them is a mistake shot, but shows something of the lens capabitities.


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Start of my walk, looking east from the Colorado Street Bridge parking area.  The yellow filter helps bring out the cloud detail.  I'm seeing some distortion in the lower corners (hard to tell at the top, due to the nature of the clouds).


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Practising focusing using a meter scale.  This is close, at three meters.


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Had to follow these guys down the river after they surprised me coming out of the shallows.  Don't think I got the focus good on this, as the mallards are just about out of the range.  I cropped it for aesthetic reasons.


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On infinity, the focus looks good.  Would have looked even better with a proper scan


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Mom, son, and dog out for a brisk walk.  Brisk because it was only 39F.  One of those late April cold snaps.  This frame had massive amounts of dust that was fixed in PSE10 using the Healing tool.


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I'm really off on the focus with this shot.  The little sign says "Delayed Harvest", and is referring to trout fishing season.  Some of the leaves beyond the trunk are in focus, so I was off by half a meter.  Shot this one at f6.3 and 1/25sec.  It's got that nice triplet swirl to it.

I need to get the Ikomat 520 in shape next so I can shoot with a 4.5 Tessar in a Compur-Rapid.

PF

[brazile]

Was glad you mentioned the triplet swirl, because I thought I was seeing that myself in the second shot.

I tried guesstimating distance a few times on a lens I was having some AF issues with; I'm quite bad at it! Seems like something that would improve with practice, but the turnaround is kind of long. :-)

Still, good results from your reclamation project!

Robert

[br1078lum]

Thanks, Robert.  I kind of like this camera, but having to adjust my thinking for the strange shutter speed range, focusing in meters, then calculating exposure for the filter I had mounted, it kind of wore my poor pea brain out.  And my fingers don't like it when it gets below 40F.  It just wasn't a day to be inspired.  But it felt good to be out shooting, and I did remember to wind on after each shot, so no doubles this time.

PF

[Dean Williams]

Looks like a keeper to me, Phil.  You'll either get used to the medicated system of measurement, or you can
fix it proper with a Sharpie marker by writing on proper feet distances.  I've done that on a couple of old German
scale focus cameras.  The full meters aren't so bad, but I do not think in things like 1.5m or 1.7m at all well!
Looks like the bellows are holding up, and the lens looks great from the photos shown here!

[br1078lum]

Thanks, Dean.  I got a set of Ceineplan filters the other week with a card inside the case that not only gave the distance settings for using the +1 and +2 diopters (Distarlinze in Zeiss speak) in CM and IN, it had a conversion scale from meter to feet.  I'm going to copy it onto card stock, laminate it, and keep it with the Nettar.

PF

[br1078lum]

I forgot about this post I read when doing some research on the camera.  http://nelsonfoto.com/SMF/index.php?topic=7457.0  My fears of a flipped element are unfounded,  and the lens is performing as it should in these photos.  Now I just have to put the lens back in it's proper order.

PF