Here’s a close-up of the Reclaimed Blue frame after having removed the transparent plastic layer (left) and before in its original shape (right).
You should see the darker, slightly purple highlights on the right where the plastic covered the emulsion. This artifact is eliminated after deconstructing the Polaroid frame (left):
If your negatives look good (not too dense or thin), you may get decent images after re-scanning, i.e., something that looks like the samples in this article.
I do struggle with this film. Got my first roll developed earlier this year and the scans looked absolutely awful. I still have to rescan at home and see if I can get better results.
Fujifilm’s Cardia Tiara II is another camera that I thought looked really cool. I love the thin sliding door piece and its film-loading mechanism is particularly interesting: the film door opens only a sliver — unless you disconnect a hinge. It’s almost as if they wanted it to have the same experience of sliding a roll of film in as with a vintage Leica camera but with the convenience of an automatic film-winding motor.
I buy, sell, test, and review a lot of them here: analog.cafe/analogue-camer… . I consider myself a knowledgeable, diligent buyer. But I’m also a bit of a cheap-ass, which had, unfortunately, cost me hundreds in $$$ and weeks of lost time.
Many of my cheap camera copies from eBay do not work as described. The sellers refunded me, but I won’t get the time and fees it took to receive the cameras back.
I own the previous Praktica SLR- the MTL3, which is the first SLR I have used as an adult, after decades of using a Rolleicord and a Speed Graphic. I bought the accessory viewfinder, had the camera CLA’d, and bought three FSU lenses for it. I love how simple and reliable the camera is, and the “thunk” of the metal shutter is not so bad. There’s a service place in New Jersey that has fast turnaround. My camera came back to me looking new.
A few weeks ago met someone who knows you from Softgrain Press. Nice to know there are still analogue people in the greater Vancouver area.
In answer to your questions, (a) hard to pick a favourite camera as I love and use the ones I have. If pressed for one I would probably have to say, my Toyo 45 AII. As for summer plans, I’m hoping to visit family and continue blitzing the prairies in search of grain elevators and other prairie architecture before it all disappears!
Here’s another shot with ORWO Wolfen NC 500 in my Voigtländer Vitessa A ( analog.cafe/r/voigtlander-… ). It appears to preserve highlights very well and captures the mood of cloudy weather well. I want to try exposing this film at EI 200 and 100 to see if that could deliver better results than box speed.
I’ve been testing ORWO Wolfen NC 500 for months, trying to understand how to use this film best. It demonstrated promising results in promotional samples ( analog.cafe/r/film-photogr… ) and in some examples mentioned by other reviewers.
But the testers’ feedback is very inconsistent — this film seems to have impressed them at one point and disappointed at another.
This film seems to shine in specific light/scenes/applications.
A friend noted to me that this film usually looks quite muddy to him and suggested I see for myself using a simulator for Green-Weak Deuteronomaly. And so, I did just that.
Seems like most of the turquoise is not there in the simulation, which takes away from this film’s calling card 😅.
But the image of the UPS truck I tried looked very close to how I see it, with the slight exception that the trees in the background are a little starker for me (maybe by about 20%).
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