Saturday, July 22, 2023

Old Film Cameras And Classic Cars


The Rolleiflex SL66 is by far my favorite medium format film camera to shoot in practice, but my copy is getting pretty long in the tooth. Wearing out in other words. So, I recently picked up a parts camera and am starting to do what a friend of mine does for his classic cars, namely, cannibalize the beater to restore the stronger of the two cameras to as close to pristine as I can. I took the frankencamera (still a work in progress) out for a test run using a roll of Ilford FP4+. I'm getting properly exposed and focused negatives so far.

Tasting notes: Rolleiflex SL66, Zeiss 120mm Planar-S lens, FP4+ developed in DD-X.