Faulty camera + old expired film + possible dilletante colour processing

Recently I received a box with an entire camera collection. Some were really good (still testing) and some in a very poor condition. This upload is done with a camera belonging to the latter category. An early Praktiflex FX - most likely from 1947 - 1949. The shutter only worked occasionally (sometimes it triggered already when cocking the shutter) , the lenses (a Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:2.8) were milky with scratches and the distance was fixed at infinity (even with force it could not be adjusted). But there was a film in it (most likely for the last 30 years or so) and so I just shot it to the best of possibilities. The outcome is quite bizarre and almost mystic- quite lomographic and partly not of "this world". As I am not best friend with home colour processing ...a wrong handling of the CS 41 soups may have also contributed to the outcome. In the meantime I have sold the Praktiflex to an Italian collector. He will for sure bring the camera back to life!

攝影師：
rolfmg
上載：
2023-07-24
標籤：
faulty camera old camera praktiflex fx
相機：
Praktiflex FX
菲林：
Agfa expired color
鏡頭：
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 2.8/50, 40mm
城市：
Bensheim and around
國家／地區：
Germany
Decade:
2020s
Year:
2023
Time:
noon
相簿：
Failures and accidents #5: Praktiflex FX

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