![]() ![]() The film was appropriately enough an Indian rebranding of exactly the film to shoot in an old Praktica - the old ORWO NP22 rebranded in India as Nova SilverPlus (ISO 125) ORWO was the old Agfa plant in the DDR and a major supplier of film to the Second World. When it was made, the Lydith was an "ultrawide" since wide-angle designs were still struggling to fit the rear of the lens into mirror clearance. This is very much a rival to this day to the screw-mount Pentaxes as a beginner film camera, and with its extremely rugged vertical metal shutter, it is likely to still be operating perfectly-perhaps, if right out of the closet, with a little exercise first.I tried it with a "full" outfit of the time: A Pentacon auto 50mm f/1.8, an older-than-L Meyer Lydith 30mm f/3.5 stop-down lens, and a contemporary Pentacon auto 135mm f/2.8. In production from December 1975 to January 1980 with 161,240 cameras produced. ![]() This one is the basic model with no meter at all (Hummel Nr. These camera was used in the space on board of Salut 6 in September 1978 by Bykowsky (USSR) and Jähn (GDR)." (Mike Otto ( This camera was a combination of an stepless electronic time control between 1 sec and 1/1000s and electronic aperture simulation. #Filmotech forum full#"The important novelty of this generation was the Praktica EE2, introduced at the Photokina 1976 and on the Photo World '77 (Birmingham) as a camera with "fully electronic, full aperture TTL metering SLR" or "camera-computer". These also have a very ingenious and capable auto-load system. #Filmotech forum series#Old meters, of course are less likely to still be working, but with a bridge circuit, the L series will work fine with alkaline 625 batteries with no worry about matching voltages or weakening charge. At re-spooled prices if ORWO uN54, the decision to shoot it would be very easy indeed.The L series is a very high quality camera of rugged construction, following the nadir of DDR camera quality in the nova and IV series*. But in Lomography form, it's far too expensive and offers nothing for the 50% premium over Ilford FP4+. Overall though I'm very happy with it - it has a unique look, is a bit soft (that maybe the Zuiko being shot wide open most of the time). Possibly not the best street combination. #Filmotech forum iso#In shade the choice of 100 iso with a slowish (f2.8) lens meant I had too many shots with a small amount of camera blur. The negatives are very nice, flat and easy to scan.Ī bit of cropping on this one at Paddington station. There were a few scratches on the film itself, but I'm unsure about the origin - my fight or there before. I hated the plastic capsule for the film - the packaging for the film said made in China - and had a reel (sorry) fight to get the film out of it. I might scale back developing time a little for my next roll. It was a very bright day when the street shots were done and I suspect my OM2n meter to be slightly over-exposing. I thought Adonal / Rodinal seemed an appropriate developer, 10 minutes at 1:50 as suggested by ORWO rather than the 9 1/2 suggested by Lomography. If the uN54 comes out as well, I plan to buy a large roll and spool it, then use some other lenses. The results are, to my pleasure, quite appealing in a rather soft and vintage way. I've reloaded the OM2n with Orwo uN54 spooled by Nik and Trick and will try and shoot that soon, to have some comparisons unaffected by lens choice. As a test I've shot one roll of the Potsdam in my OM2n with 100mm f2.8 lens, and I've now developed it in Adonal 1:50 for 10 minutes. I've been meaning to try some Orwo since another friend, heavily into Eastern European motoring and other history told me it was the descendent of films produced at the great Agfa plant at Wolfen. ![]() A friend shot some photos on this and I rather liked the result, and immediately given the Lomography description thought it was going to be Orwo uN54. ![]()
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