Critique Welcomed Speicherstadt again!

[Bill Watts]

I have a fascination with the bridges and canals in this area of town. A trial run of Fomapan classic film in my Exakta TL 1000 - technically a Petri FT 1000 badge engineered for Ihagee West Germany and sold under their Exakta brand. It has an M42 lens mount instead of an Exakta mount and stop down metering. I believe these were the last Exakta branded cameras sold. Not to be confused with the Exakta RTL1000, which was a soviet built camera and the forerunner of the very long lived and successful Praktica L series of cameras.

Camera: Exakta TL 1000, nee Petri FT 1000
Lens: Pentacon "Electric" 29mm f2.8 (a re engineered Meyer Optic Orestegon)
Exposure: f11, 1/125s ISO 100 metred with the camera meter.
Film: Fomapan Classic ISO 100
Process: Developer Kodak HC-110 dilution b
Scanned: Epson Perfection V600 Photo
Software: Epson Scan II, Affinity Photo

Despite the camera being a Japanese Petri and the lens being a soviet copy of an Orestegon, the images the combination produce are very good. Meyer Optic had a very good reputation back then and are still in business today producing some very fine and expensive lenses.

 

[Tony Warren]

So much more "punch" than your Olympus version but the light is more favourable of course. But that lens looks the business nevertheless. I like to shoot the same subjects on different cameras to give a useful comparison, as here. I didn't know the TL 1000 was a re-badged Petri.

 

[Bill Watts]

So much more "punch" than your Olympus version but the light is more favourable of course. But that lens looks the business nevertheless. I like to shoot the same subjects on different cameras to give a useful comparison, as here. I didn't know the TL 1000 was a re-badged Petri.

I just hit the sweet spot on the lens with this one!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Much better this photo of the subject, both for the framing and the perfect sharpness, in my opinion. Congratulations on a job well done.