This is a B&W version of a panorama I took with my 1937 Welta Weltur. Two images sewn together in Photoshop, and then turned into black and white. Old glass which is uncoated gives a characteristically different look to film, whether in color or black and white. You can see the color version here.
There is something so different in the quality of a photo taken with a film camera, rather than a digital camera. It is apparent even more so when it is done with an uncoated lens from 1937. The lens in question is a lovely Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 2.8, 75mm, taken using 1937 Welta Weltur camera. It is a folding camera that takes the still-available 120mm film. I used Ektar 100 by Kodak, and applied the Sunny 16 rule for manual exposures.
I have a 6×6 version with a 6×4.5 reduction mask. I thought I had removed the mask – but hadn’t. All my supposedly square images came out rectangular! I stitched two images together in PS6 and then tediously removed threads and dots of dust that were apparent even after scanning with Digital Ice on the Epson V600.
This photo makes me think of landscape paintings of the 1700s and 1800s – especially that turquoise sky. Mayhap a painting will follow.
When I scanned the images from the first roll of film through the Yashica D TLR, I think I scanned them at 3600. They are BIG! I wanted to see the details capable of the camera and the lens, and I was honestly really, really pleased. Here on offer is a portion of a picture I took of leafy plants nestled in the dappled sun beneath an oak tree along the Moonrise Trail. The Yashinon lens does a superb job altogether. This is about 1/10 of the original picture.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 