Musée Guimet Parc Tête d'Or - a photo on Flickriver

            My photowalk of November 2, 2023, to the Parc Tête d'Or passing by the former Musée Guimet, Lyon, France

My FOCA camera PF2B (year 1948) was already loaded of an Ilford HP5+ film since a week after my last photo session. The FOCA camera was equipped of a normal lens Oplar 1:3.5 f=5cm lens. This lens, with the serial number beginning by 032, was manufactured in 1947 by the Optique & Précision de Levallois (OPL) French company, most likely in its factory of Châteaudun, Eure, France.  The lens was also equipped withe with a generic 36mm push-on 1A filter a metal shade-hood. 

I used again a special FOCA ever-ready bag made of a mix of strong military fabric and brown leather. This type of FOCA bag appeared as soon as 1945 and was price listed until 1951 but less popular and the other full leather bags. Exemplary in good shape is a rarity. The lens cap used here is a modern plastic 36mm lens cap Heliopan, Germany.

Due to a rather "foggy" finder, I used the Foca multi-focal external finder for the 50mm lense. The focus is almost impossible to evaluate using the internal range-finder that is, however, well operating. When necessary (distances bellow ca 5-6m), exact distances were  measured using a LASER meter and reporting the value found to the lens distance scale. 

The film was exposed for 400 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.

After the photo session, on my way back, I went to the Théâtre Guignol and had a waffle covered of fresh chestnut cream.

Parc de la Tête d'Or, November 2, 2023
69606 Lyon
France

After exposure, the film was developed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) at dilution 1+25 for 6min at 20°C.  Digitization was done using a Sony A7 body (24MP) fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.

All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.

About the camera :

This Foca PF2B is an early series (model-3 version-5 circa 1948) of the Foca PF2B  35mm French range-finder camera released in 1945. The PF2B model of Foca has the 36mm screw mount of all other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1946. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems. This model of PF2B was originally without flash synchronisation. This one has been probably modified after sale with the double synchro X and FP that are still operating correctly (X synchro at 1/25s)

Taken on: November 2, 2023

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Camera: vivo V2124, f/1.8, 1/100 sec, 4mm, ISO 273 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	vivo V2124
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	4mm
ISO:	273
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Not Defined
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Light Source:	D65
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Macintosh)
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