{"id":1013,"date":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorj.org:4433\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"Bessa Lives!","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Bessa Lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100201-bessa_lives.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" class='alignnone size-full' title=\"Bessa Lives!\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100201-bessa_lives.jpg\" alt=\"Bessa Lives!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a few things that need addressing &#8211; like the dust on this scan, and apparently focus is important &#8211; but the Bessa 66 is functional!<\/p>\n<p>This test shot was from Reading Terminal Market, in front of DiNic&#8217;s last Friday. Not too shabby for a 1938-era camera.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped off two more rolls today (this is Neopan 400; I also shot some Ilford HP5) and we&#8217;ll see if I improved any over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the technical blunders I ran in to on this roll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus estimation problem (this has no live focus; you focus-by-distance)<\/li>\n<li>Double exposure (<strike>auto<\/strike>manual-wind, and apparently I didn&#8217;t do that once)<\/li>\n<li>Frame misalignment (Wound too far for one frame, causing two to overlap)<\/li>\n<li>Dust on the scanner, picked up by the film immediately (waaaaaay more than I thought there could ever be)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miraculously, over- and under- exposure weren&#8217;t nearly as much of a problem as I thought they would be. I metered the first roll with an actual light meter and my 5D. The next two were done by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunny_16_rule\">Sunny 16 rule<\/a> (i.e. guesstimating). We&#8217;ll see how well I did when I get them back tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I think this camera&#8217;s a keeper. I&#8217;ll be replacing its yellow filter, and sending it off for a CLA and bellows replacement. As soon as I&#8217;m done shooting &#8220;test&#8221; rolls. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a few things that need addressing &#8211; like the dust on this scan, and apparently focus is important &#8211; but the Bessa 66 is functional!<\/p>\n<p>This test shot was from Reading Terminal Market, in front of DiNic&#8217;s last Friday. Not too shabby for a 1938-era camera.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped off two more rolls today (this is Neopan 400; I also shot some Ilford HP5) and we&#8217;ll see if I improved any over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the technical blunders I ran in to on this roll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus es &#8230;<a href='\/blog\/?p=1013'>[more]<\/a><br \/>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57,58,51],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bessa66","tag-film","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}