Problem leica at Anton's Gowt

Donkeys against the sun

Disused railway line

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I used my Leica IIC to take these two photographs. It would appear that there is a problem with the shutter curtains. I think the second curtain is sticking slightly, this shows up in the first photograph. The extreme left of frame is very overexposed, the streaking may be due to the film processing hopefully or a shutter curtain that is not light tight. If any Leica users out there have any ideas your comments are welcome. Most 50 year old Leica's could always use a service.

Leica IIC Jupiter8 50mm f2 film: Agfa APX 100 Dev: Adolux APH09 1:40 13mins at 20 Deg.C

Horncastle Antique & Curiosity Shops. Leica IIC 21/01/07

If you like antique, curiosity and junk shops Horncastle is the place to go.

I took these shots on sunday with a Leica II. I was a little worried about being acused of shop lifting as I was carrying the Leica in my coat pocket. The leica is an antique it self. I was using Ilford FP4 which is not the best film to use for dimly lit indoor shots with the Leica IIC as this camera does not have a slow speed dial so the slowest shutter speed is 1/30, I did have a f2 lens which did help and the FP4 is pushed to 200ASA.

Leica IIC Jupiter 8 50mm/f2. Ilford FP4 EI 200 Dev Kodak D76 stock.

Boston 03/12/06 Leica IIC 5cm & 9cm Elmar

5 cm Elmar

9 cm Elmar










Couple of shots here from Boston , I was Testing a couple of new lenses and using Ilford pan F+
The Lenses are Leitz Elmar' s One is a coated 5cm f3.5 Elmar manufactured just after WWII and the other is a 9cm f4 Elmar manufatured just before WWII. In short they are good.
Both shots have been taken with a Leitz Yellow #1 filter Exopsure for the First shot is 1/100 @f8 the second shot using the 9cm lens is at 1/200 @f 5.6
There is a similar shot taken using Ilford FP4 in the June archive of this blog you can compare the Elmar to a 1970'S 50mm F2 Nikkor link is below.

http://newyorkmonochrome.blogspot.com/2006/06/windmill-in-boston-taken-from.html


Leica IIC Leitz Elmar 5cm f 3.5 & Leitz Elmar 9cm f 4 Film Ilford Panf+ Dev Agfa Rodinal 1-25

Norwich 02/12/06 Leica IIC & PLUS-X PAN

I have not been using my Leica's much lately so I took my Leica IIC with me when I visited Norwich. It came with a 1948 vintage 5cm coated Elmar lens and a 1938 vintage un-coated 9cm Elmar lens, Both are in good order.

The two shots above are shot on Kodak Plus-X Pan (old emulsion) @125 asa and developed in Agfa Rodinal 1-50 The exposure was 1/30 @ f5.6

It was rather a gloomy day on Saturday but I think the camera has peformed well.. it is over 60 years old!

Makes a nice change from using a modern Nikon SLR.