B&W 1959 Adox Polo 1S

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Hello!, here some shots with my father's Adox Polo 1S camera and Rollei Retro 80 S film.

Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, North Spain.

The camera:
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#1


#2


#3


#4


#5


#6


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Nowt wrong with those! Nice camera and nice results!
 
Yes, a fantastic lens for a very basic and simple camera, it was a surprise for me, better results than I expected. The same with the Rollei film. (y)
 
#2 is just a very likeable shot. the whole composition works very well irrespective of the camera used.

Top marks for this from me. Well done and a real keeper.
 
Very nice set, the lens on that old machine is clearly very fine. 1 and 2 are my favourites but all are good. I'd be really interest also to hear about your development and scanning technique as I really like your monochrome work.
 
Thank you guys for all your comments, they are very much appreciated. :)

Adrian, my development technique has no secrets, a basic development with R09 following this recipe: http://filmdev.org/recipe/show/7031

I've explained a similar process, step by step, on this thread: Develop Test, you only have to change the development time by following the above recipe.

About the scanning process, I use a DSLR camera with a 50mm prime lens and a macro tube adapter, with a contraption made by myself to hold the negatives, very similar to this one: http://www.pekkapotka.com/journal/2012/11/11/copying-slides-with-om-d-and-60mm-macro.html

I do the post processing with Gimp for: cropping, invert colours, normalize and convert the image to greyscale. Sometimes, depending on the picture, I play a little with curves and levels, but usually I don't need to do it.

And that's all.
 
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