I’m late with the images of my summer vacation. The quiet days during the holidays finally gave me opportunity to edit the images taken in August. I traveled with the new addition to my collection, the Noblex 150U Pro and the Hasselblad 500C/M. The b&w film used is solely Rollei Retro 400s developed either in Spur Speed Major or SLD. The “normal” looking color photos are shot with Kodak Ektar. While the two “different” looking images are shot with expired Velvia 100 and Rollei CR 200.
I also tried my luck with the new layflat paper offered by blurb. It is awfully expensive but I got one using the year end discount. Check it out here.
The Hasselblad is a quite familiar animal and pretty much behaved as foreseen. The square format is sometimes hard to fill with a good story. However playing with the depth of field is the best mean to deepen the image into the third dimension. I also never crop or rotate square frames. What’s on the film is also seen here. The Noblex is a different animal. Normally, everything is in focus from a minimum distance depending on the chosen aperture up to infinity. I also feel that the panoramic format is more forgiving than the square format. The control of the extreme edges is difficult since the finder doesn’t cover them. That’s the reason some images are minimally cropped. The second problem are the distortions when the camera isn’t leveled correctly. The lever inside the viewfinder only indicates horizontally while the vertical lever is outside. I guess the camera was supposed to be used mostly on a tripod. Unless, of course, the distortion is used to add drama to an image. In this case a bigger effect is even desired.
Ostseebad Binz – the beach
Prora – KdF
Ostseebad Sellin – the sea bridge
Putbus
Stubbenkammer
Sassnitz
The village Vitt
Kap Arkona
Schaprode
Altkirchen
Between Sassnitz und Lohme
Klein Zicker
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