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 |
4 comments:
Such fine lenses on those Retinas. Love the rail yard image.
The Xenon lenses really are extraordinary. They make even the pedestrian images seem special.
Well done! I like the merging of the fence and the rail lines. And I can confirm that the lenses on the Retinas were excellent. Concentrate on these optically-superior cameras in your fleet.
I have to admit that the cameras I choose to use on any given day aren't selected by systematic planning. If I happen to pick up a camera and begin looking through the finder and working the shutter, I often find that I have an irresistable urge to load some film in it.
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