Another sunny December day and another roll of film in the Kodak Duaflex. This time it is some Arista Edu Ultra 200 of indeterminate age. The box does not seem to have an expiration date. I got it some time past from Free Style. I suspect this is repackaged Fomapan as the pre-soak came out of the tank very blue. All of the shots were made with a light yellow filter over the lens. Processing was in Rodinal 1:50.
See some more about the first model Kodak Duaflex and its designer in an article on my old website.
2 comments:
You did well. Again, I am surprised how well this camera works with a simple meniscus lens. It looks like the optimum focus was set at about 10 +/- ft.
But once again, I am perplexed why American companies made such basic cameras after WWII. No triplet or Tessar-type lenses? Americans were incredibly rich then compared to residents of any other country on earth. Families were on the move in their cars. They wanted to record the sights and their families.
In the days after WWII people were mostly getting contact prints from drugstore processors. The sharpness from the medium contact negatives was perfectly adequate for that as well as for moderate enlargements. Some cameras, like the Anscoflex II, had multi-element lenses. These days, the Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim has a similar symmetrical two-element lens which yields quite good sharpness.
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