• Ralf Heinecke Photos shared a Photo.
    02.06.2026, 10:38

    Function test of an (almost) 70-year-old camera
    The photo was taken with the purely mechanical rangefinder camera Voigtländer Vito BL (1956) with a Color-Skopar 50mm f/2.8 lens (1/300 sec at about f/4.5). I was able to free up the resin-seized focus ring with a hairdryer and used a smartphone app for metering, as the (uncoupled) selenium light meter is now dead. The film used was Kodak Gold 200, developed with Fujifilm's industry standard process and scanned in the lab with a Noritsu as an XXL TIFF (6630x4420px). In post-processing, I only reduced the file size and saved it as a JPG. I’m pleasantly surprised by the result and will next try classic black and white.
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