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The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 5: 1/125s f/11
Chemical factory Solvay, August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. : 1/125s f/11
August 15, 2024
69660 Colloges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 8: 1/125s f/8
L'Hermitage, August 15, 2024
Mont Cindre
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 7 : 1/125s f/5.6 (by accident instead of the f/8 measured)
L'Hermitage, August 15, 2024
Mont Cindre
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 8: 1/125s f/8
L'Hermitage, August 15, 2024
Mont Cindre
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
Swedish car and Swedish camera.
August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 4: 1/125s f/6.3
Chemical factory Solvay, August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 5: 1/125s f/11
Chemical factory Solvay, August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
Swedish car and Swedish camera.
August 15, 2024
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
Swedish car and Swedish camera.
August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 7: 1/125s f/5.6 (by accident instead of measured f/8)
L'Hermitage, August 15, 2024
Mont Cindre
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 10: 1/125s f/6.3
French poets Jacques Prévert and Georges Brassens
Restaurant "Là haut sur la colline", August 15, 2024
Route du Mont Cindre
69450 Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
The village of Collonges is a typical village neighboring Lyon city, France, along the Saône river right bank. It is located at the foot of the beautiful small massif of the « Monts d’Or » that dominate gently the city of Lyon. The three peaks of the massif are the mount Cindre (alt. 420m), mount Thou (Alt. 611m), and mount Verdun (alt . 626m)/ The mounts Thou and Verdun are hosting military radars (Base Aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun) surveying the whole South-East France quarter.
On August 15, 2024 I went there with my Hasselblad 500 C/M Swedish camera for 12 pictures of a single Ilford Delta 100 film roll. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped of a Hoya K2 Yellow (x2) 67mm screw-on filter adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the filter absorption assuming the x2 coefficient. I used my trusted Minolta Autometer III and its 10° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's.
View Nr. 3 : 1/125s f/11
Chemical factory Solvay, August 15, 2024
69660 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the French Chef Paul Bocuse: (Wikipedia)
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul).
About the Solvay chemical factory of Collonges : (Solvay official source)
Located near Lyon, the Solvay site in Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or is a flagship of mineral chemistry and the world leader in high-performance precipitated silicas, used in automobile tires, among other things. Date of creation: 1918. Surface area: 8.7 hectares.
About the camera and lens:
I remember that about 20 year aga, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. I started then digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
