I decided to send the Welta Weltur our for a bit of a CLA. The rangefinder / viewer is a bit foggy and makes it difficult to focus easily. That is taken care of by using a smaller f-stop, thus increasing the DOF. I am not sure how this light leak occurred – perhaps when it was being developed.
Taken with Ilford XP Super 400, Welta Weltur from 1937, Xenar lens. Guestimated exposures. Scanned with Epson V600.
Part of my container garden this summer in the Dog Free Zone. I grew hot chilis, herbs, flowers, and, in particular, milkweed. You can see the milkweed seed pods have opened, and the seeds are waiting to blown away by the wind. The milkweed is food that is important to Monarch butterflies, but I have heard that the milkweed with colored flowers is not good for the butterflies. I want to do a bit of research on this – what if all is for naught?
Once more, this is a photo using my 1937 Welta Weltur and Ilford XP Super 400 film. The Xenar lens is stunning, with lovely detail and softness at the same time. I really like what it can do.
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.
Welta Weltur, 6×4.5, Kodak Ektar 100 rendered to B&W in Nik Silver Efex. Scanned with Epson V600.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 