The view East at Sunrise one day in August 1989 from halfway up the Grand Gendarme on the North Ridge of the Weisshorn, Swiss Alps. It's a bit magenta but I've not fiddled with it in Photoshop.
Taken on Kodak Gold 200 film, using a Zeiss Ikonta 6 x 6 cm camera, with a 75mm/4.5 Anstigmat lens. Unfiltered. I'd only owned the camera about six weeks and the picture has some flare from the uncoated lens.
It is ideal for mountaineering as it is light-weight with the lens folding into the body and shoots medium format negatives.
I'd hate to take a modern Hasselblad digital up the North Ridge of the Weisshorn - the battery would probably fail!! Apart from the weight................oh and £8,000, the Zeiss cost £80.00 and you can still get them for about the same money.
1 comment:
Hello, and thank you for sharing your lovely shot.
I used to have a Sinar F2 back in the days when clients would pay to run it.
I had to get rid of the uncoated lenses precisely because of the flair, although I think it actually works on your image.
It reminds me that I must look at my negs in the big trunk at the foot of my bed someday!
Christian
http://www.schwetzstudios.co.uk
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