[QUOTE=Postfade;1360899]Sadsack: only a cheap ‘Samoca’ 35mm camera with a fixed 45mm f2.8 lens. I took about 1200 aircraft pics in those 2 and half years but had to battle with processsing problems. The local camera shops had no clever film developing machines and controlling the water temperature during development was a nightmare. I was only getting very small prints initially and didn’t really notice how contrasty the pictures usually were. Eventually my dad bought me an enlarger and I started to sort out the problems. I would stay up late with my bedroom windows blacked out with blankets and washed the prints in the bath!
I still had some rather contrasty (or even soft) negatives because of the water temperature problems. Luckily a great many of the negs came out as good as these. Still upsetting to find some that are poor because of the ‘grain’ on the negs being messed up by incorrect development.
Just compare the first of my Lancaster sequence:
Would this be it ….SAMOCA MR
http://www.thecamerasite.net/02_Rangefinders/Pages/samoca.htm
I’d assumed you were using a Rolleiflex 6×6 to get such quality….what film type, and filter did you use and are they scanned off the negs or prints?
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