After nearly 11 years of absence from analogue photography I reentered the scene at around 2014 with a M42 system. However, I find that SLR cameras are too heavy to me and so I started looking for something different. Of course I have heard of the magical analogue film Leica cameras and lenses and started looking into this direction.
Unfortunately the Leica cameras are quite expensive, but then I found out about the Cosina Voigtländer cameras and so started also looking for those instead – I soon found one for a reasonable price.
My favourite camera now is my Voigtländer Bessa R2M and I use it most of the time with my Voigtländer Color Skopar 35mm f/2.5 Classic (LTM mount). Next to that lens I own 50mm and 90mm Elmar lenses from Leica, a 25mm Snapshot Skopar from Voigtländer and a Russian Jupiter-8 50mm. I also use a Yashica MAT124G from time to time and a Rollei 35.
This year we visited a village-museum in the Bavarian forest and I used my beloved photo-combo with a Fujifilm Superia XTRA 400 film.
The museum is located in the Bavarian forest and it consists of more than a hundred historic houses from the 17th to 19th century. We visited the museum in autumn after the summer vacation time was over, so there were not too many visitors around.
I took the opportunity to get a few shots without having any people in the frame. I set the exposure spot on for most of the images with metering towards the shadows. For some images I overexposed 0.5 to 1 stop which gives slightly muted colors.
You can find my latest work on Instagram.
And more images on flickr and 500px.
absolutely lovely!
Thank you!
My main beef with the Voigtlander (can’t remember exactly which iteration I had, but it had the dial on top to change the choice of lenses used) was that the rewind lever seemed quite flimsy. I always thought it was going to snap.
Oh, I love this museum. Just perfect for a day with a camera. Unfortunately we’ve been there in my pre-analog-time.