Faulty camera + old expired film + possible dilletante colour processing

Recently I received a box with an entire camera collection. Some were really good (still testing) and some in a very poor condition. This upload is done with a camera belonging to the latter category. An early Praktiflex FX - most likely from 1947 - 1949. The shutter only worked occasionally (sometimes it triggered already when cocking the shutter) , the lenses (a Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:2.8) were milky with scratches and the distance was fixed at infinity (even with force it could not be adjusted). But there was a film in it (most likely for the last 30 years or so) and so I just shot it to the best of possibilities. The outcome is quite bizarre and almost mystic- quite lomographic and partly not of "this world". As I am not best friend with home colour processing ...a wrong handling of the CS 41 soups may have also contributed to the outcome. In the meantime I have sold the Praktiflex to an Italian collector. He will for sure bring the camera back to life!

Fotoğrafçı:
rolfmg
Yüklendi:
2023-07-24
Etiketler:
faulty camera old camera praktiflex fx
Fotoğraf Makinesi:
Praktiflex FX
Film:
Agfa expired color
Lens:
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 2.8/50, 40mm
Şehir:
Bensheim and around
Ülke:
Germany
Decade:
2020s
Year:
2023
Time:
noon
Albümler:
Failures and accidents #5: Praktiflex FX
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