Analogue Adventures – Half 2: First Roll of Movie

Introduction

In one in all my drawers I discovered two rolls of Ektar 100 from the instances a roll was solely 8€. Expired 2015. Not precisely correctly saved. So a very good alternative to see if the publicity meter works and the place I stand with the rangefinder calibration of this digital camera.

What lenses to make use of?

However the first query was: which lenses to make use of with this digital camera? I cowl M-mount lenses from 9mm to 135mm, however when relying solely on the rangefinder (and I’m not able to take care of exterior finders but) it’s higher to restrict this to twenty-eight to 90mm, so these had been my choices:

7Artisans 28mm 1.4 FE+
Voigtländer VM 35mm 1.2 Nokton III
Voigtländer VM 75mm 1.5 Nokton
Leica 90mm 2.0 Summicron-M pre-Asph

I even have a 50mm 1.1 from a brand new chinese language producer coming, so I’ll add this to the record as quickly because it arrives and if it seems to be a very good lens.

My pattern of the 7Artisans 28mm 1.4 is a really early one and the rangefinder coupling doesn’t work with the M6 (does with the M10 although). It appears 7Artisans revised the design and I hope to get a spare half to repair this, however this can be a story for an additional article.

The opposite three lenses are nicely calibrated with working infinity exhausting cease (I checked this on the M10), so I used to be good to go.

PS: The MS-Optics lenses 24mm 2.0 and 50mm 1.0 each don’t even characteristic a nicely calibrated infinity exhausting cease and along with that a variety of area curvature, so most likely higher to maintain utilizing them on digital.

Ektar 100

The Ektar 100 was expired in 2015 and I didn’t retailer it in a fridge or one thing like that, so I didn’t actually know what to anticipate in any respect. Some sources on the web mentioned it’s a good suggestion so as to add a cease of publicity for each 10 years the movie is expired, so I shot it as ISO 65, which when it comes to publicity labored largely okay.

The lab I despatched the movie to (urbanfilmlab in Kleve, Germany) despatched me the scanned photos with a observe, that the movie was both expired or not saved correctly (fact: each) and there have been some extreme colour shifts.

Leica M6 | Voigtländer VM 35mm 1.2 III | f/1.2

The colour shifts, they’re actually extreme. So extreme it wasn’t simply doable to right them. I attempted to right a number of photos to offer little much less wonky colours, however ultimately I typically did what I at all times do when the colours suck: convert the images to black and white, which labored actually fairly nicely.

Rangefinder Calibration

From my preliminary assessments I already had the sensation that the rangefinder calibration will not be good at shut ranges so I spent a number of exposures on testing the three lenses at most aperture at infinity and at round 1.0 m.
As anticipated infinity was nice (I calibrated this, it’s simple to do), however at shut vary there was a 1-2 cm backfocus seen with the 75mm and 90mm – regardless that the decision isn’t that nice, almost certainly because of the movie being expired.
The depth of area of the 35mm even at f/1.2 was already sufficient to largely masks this – a minimum of when utilizing this now decrease decision movie.

Within the area and when utilizing the lens at barely longer focus distances the hit charge was largely nice although, even at most aperture. Nonetheless I’ll ship the digital camera to an skilled to have it correctly calibrated.

What’s subsequent?

Earlier than I can get pleasure from utilizing this digital camera there’s a bunch of issues I’ve to maintain first:

• Get the framelines mounted below guarantee
• Get the rangefinder calibrated by an precise skilled
• Get a spare half for the 7Artisans 28mm 1.4 to make it work with M6

So the brand new movies I have already got within the fridge could keep there a bit of bit longer. This begins to change into extra of a very long time journey…

Further Footage

Additional Studying