The Plough Inn, Rosemarkie. The alarm and CCTV don't quite fit in with quaint looks...

My first Blip taken on a medium format camera. Shot a whole film on this day (this a very late back-Blip), mainly to see if this 55+year old camera of my parents still works. That's not many shots for this size of film - a mere 12 photos. It took a while for the processing lab to send the film back... and very much longer time for me to: find the right size of film holder, that came with the scanner; and then use it!

The camera has a built in light meter, but it's not linked in to the exposure settings, so you have to set everything yourself. Focusing is of course manual too. It is a rangefinder camera, though I was using zone focusing. Takes a wee while to set everything, but if the light stays much the same, you won't have to keep adjusting things.

I don't ever recall having as much fun using a camera. Peoples reactions to an ancient folding camera were comical. Met several folk with the latest DSLR's, and had a good laugh joking with them, "That's not a proper camera. Wait till you see this!" I haul out the Zeiss, open the cover, and push a button on the top. The front of the camera folds out in a slow, but ever so stylish movement, that ends with a positive click. Appreciative laughs all around. Several people came up to have a look at it, and then went on to regale stories of their parents' having similar cameras.

Compared with my usual Nikon DSLR/SLR cameras the shutter sound is near silent. It gives the daintiest little click, and had me checking it had actual taking a shot.

Confirmed that it works fine at faster shutter speeds. I had noted that the shutter tended to stick open at slow speeds, fortunately, prior to loading a film. Anyway, twelve well exposed shots from twelve. Focusing - whilst okay, wasn't perfect. Scanned files are huge!



Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta IV : f/8 : 1/250" : 75mm : ISO100

Film: Kodak T-MAX 100 (B&W)