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!

사진작가:
rolfmg
업로드:
2023-07-24
태그:
faulty camera old camera praktiflex fx
카메라:
Praktiflex FX
필름:
Agfa expired color
렌즈:
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 2.8/50, 40mm
도시:
Bensheim and around
국가/지역:
Germany
Decade:
2020s
연도:
2023
시간:
noon
앨범:
Failures and accidents #5: Praktiflex FX
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