The Heliar Hyper Wide 10mm on the Zeiss SW. The lens is uncoupled so you more or less guess the distance and let the depth of field handle focus - and, yes, the 10mm has a lot of Depth of Field!!!
The spirit level has sprung a leak, so I am going to take it apart and replace the little "bubble" thingie.
Tags: Nikon F Zeiss Macro Planar 50mm f2.0 Kodak Aerecon Plus X Xtol/Rodinal 9 min Zeiss SW Voigtlander Heliar Hyper Wide 10mm f5.6 fully loaded scale focussing depth of field
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The Zeiss SW - much derided when it came out - mostly by people who never used it. I like it - same meter as the Zeiss ZM camera, simple to use. I tend to use it with un-coupled lenses and also on a Visoflex III with the bellows for extreme close ups.
The red light warns you that you are pushing your luck - speeds slower than 1/15, the yellow states "Ok, maybe you can do it" handheld and the green is "all set to go". By the nature of the camera you are limited to wide lenses - trying to scale focus anything beyond a 35 is a bit to optimistic - unless it is at infinity.
It also make a nifty pin hole camera with AE! just drill a hole in a boy cap - stick a pied of thin brass shim stock and poke a hole through it.
Tags: Nikon F Zeiss Macro Planar 50mm f2.0 Kodak Aerecon Plus X Xtol/Rodinal 9 min Zeiss SW Voigtlander Spirit level warning lights Red,Yellow. Green
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Freedom from focus! Very liberating lens.camera combo. You just use the scale focussing on the lens - with click stops at appropriate distances and shot. OK, sometimes you miss, but you ore or less wave the camera and shoot. The lens is very good, sharp, nice contrast and tiny.
Tags: Nikon F Zeiss Macro Planar 50mm f2.0 Kodak Aerecon Plus X Xtol/Rodinal 9 min Zeiss SW Voigtlander Snapshot Skopar 25mm f4.0 liberating Point and Shoot
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My well seasoned M6 Millennium with the double shoe adapter and the finder (here a 12mm one) and the Voigtlander Spirit Level. You can see the "bubble" by just shifting the eye slightly - no need to drop the camera and try to figure out a "regular" spirit bubble level.
Tags: Nikon F Zeiss Macro Planar 50mm f2.0 Kodak Aerecon Plus X Xtol/Rodinal 9 min M6 Millennium fully loaded finder spirit level
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The front of the Heliar Hyper Wide is rather pronounced - no filter facility as they would cause vignetting. The lens cap slides over the "tulip" hood and stays securely in place. Usually I discard lens caps - or in case of the spring loaded ones - they discard themselves!. But with the 10 mm I carefully put the cap one when the lens is not in use - way too easy to bump that front glass.
Tags: Nikon F Zeiss Macro Planar 50mm f2.0 Kodak Aerecon Plus X Xtol/Rodinal 9 min Voigtlander heliar Hyper Wide 10mm f5.6 lens cap Use It front element risky
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