The Green Chair

Geometry and Trees

Canon IIB, Jupiter-8 and Summaron 35mm lenses.
Film: Fuji Superia 400

Spending the Day with Old Friends

It's another freezing day. Too cold to go out and shoot so I shot some of my cameras instead. I wish have more good days to take these old friends for some exercise.
I'm also wanted to try out a recently acquired collapsible screw mount Summicron 5cm on my Olympus E-PL1 digital camera before I send it out for a CLA. The lens looks almost mint, the glass very clean but the focusing and aperture rings are a little tight. It seems it sat unused on the shelve for awhile. Don't worry, when it comes back it will be used with the proper cameras.

A Short Walk On Broadway

Small Hidden Places-2

Japanese Barnack

I recently got this Canon rangefinder camera from KEH.com. It was described as a Canon III but based on the serial numbers, "Made in Occupied Japan" engraving at the bottom and the maximum shutter speed of 1/500 sec, I think it is really a IIB. The light meter is a Brockway Norwood Director M-2, an American made selenium meter and the grandaddy of the Sekonic L-398. The meter still works accurately without batteries despite being 50 years old or so. The viewfinder is a little dim and very squinty compared to my Leica IIF and Fed-1. I plan to just use it with my wide angle lenses with accessory viewfinders.
Above are some images from my first test roll, a Fuji Superia 400 converted to black and white.