All of my Kodak Retinas have excellent lenses, but I've always felt the Xenon on my 1949 Retina II is the best of the bunch. Support for that judgment was found on a roll of Kentmere 100 which I put through the camera about seven years ago. The sharpness and tonalities from the pictures seemed near perfect to me.
When I put the pictures in a blog post, though, what really stood out was the fact that two adjacent pictures really seemed to want to be in the same frame together. So, looking at them recently, I decided to stitch the two horizontal compositions together into a single vertical one..
The white picket fence is in front of our house. The upper section of the composition shows the railroad tracks about a mile to the east. Both pictures looked pretty good to me, but I thought the combination added some interesting depth.
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| Kodak Retina II -- Xenon f:2/50mm |
1 comment:
Such fine lenses on those Retinas. Love the rail yard image.
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