WLE 90 - Monroeville, OH
WLE 90 (Norwalk, OH - Bellevue, OH NS) Turn
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I Know Why Your Power Short!
E271 with CN SD70M-2 #8857 and CN SD70i #5616 rocket through Bellevue, Mi with a small 2000ft train on their way to Battle Creek. Winter 2024
The Blizzard of the Year
M396 with CN SD70M-2 #8903, CN C44-9W #2646, CN SD75i #5648, and CN SD70M-2 #8914 slowly head east through Bellevue, Mi in a blizzard that is starting to cover the nose of the leader. In Michigan this year we hardly got any snow, so when snow storms like this happened it was "shoot every train no matter the power" that way there was some sort of snow photography in 2024.
Belle Vue (Manchester) SN13CHG, Cheetham, March 2024
New to First Capital as their DN33794.
Biometar Rollei Superpan 200
My first film with the Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120mm lens mounted on my Praktina IIa SLR in Lyon, France, March 27, 2024.
The Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 1:2.8 f=120mm was equipped with an anti-UV 67mm screw-on filter and no shade hood.
The camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Rollei film Superpan 200 (former Agfa Aviphot 200 used in aerial photography) sensitized in the red to 760nm in the near-IR band. Rollei Superpan is coated on a maskless PET support with anti-halation layers that should be removed by two presoaking bathes before the developer.
Expositions were determined for 200 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. Shutter time of 1/250s or 1/500s were used with aperture from the full aperture f/2.8 to f/16.
Place Bellevue, March 27, 2024
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 and 20°C for 8 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the lens :
This Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 1:2.8 f=120mm lens has automatic diaphragm preselection system (ASB Auto Spring Blende) that is operated by the IIa version of Praktina camera's.
The Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120mm was initially designed to cover the 6x6 format of the KW Praktisix (then the PentaconSix) (zeissikonveb.de). It was also proposed for the Praktina 35mm SLR.
About the KW Praktina IIa :
The Praktina IIa followed in 1958 the Praktina FX designed by the prestigious KW (Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz) German company in Dresden.
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May 1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
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Belle Vue
This view and a cold beer.. I didn't want to leave!
Belle Vue restaurant, about 300 meters above sea level on La Digue island.
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Street Photography Abstract & minimal Bellevue 2024_03_04-155
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Vole, unknown species
A vole forages amid tall grasses in early August 2020 in the Silver Creek Preserve near Bellevue, Idaho.
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