PeteE
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Here is the Green Man Pub, Herongate in 1961 on old Ektachrome E2, Voitlander 'Avus' 9x12cms with Rada Rollfim back using 120 film.
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Here is the Lighthouse on the Isle of Mull, Scotland on an Ensign Selfix 16/20 model I with f4.5 Ensar lens,outdated Ilford Delta 400, red filter, developed in Crawley's formula FX18 1+3 dilution. It made a good 20x16" print which won me the Landscape/Skyscape/Seascape Trophy at my Club, Brentwood Photographic Club.
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spinno
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I like them both- the first has that wonderful colour of old film and the second is just wow look at the sky.
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Simplicity has been held a mark of truth; it is also a mark of genius. - Thomas Carlyle
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tessar
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Hi Pete,
Good shots, lovely to see the old cameras still making fine pictures.
Cheers Bill. 
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PeteE
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Tessar : there is a set of 1953 Ensign Selfix 16/20 Model II shots on 'Exhibition Gallery' pics from my Army Days in 1957 Berlin.
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almu
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Reged: 10/03/2008
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Hi
I liked both of the pictures but especially the monochrome.
I notice that you use an Ensign selfix. I have this and several other medium format cameras that I like to use but they have the red window system for winding on and I find this very difficult especially with film that uses light grey numbers .
Do you have this problem? If so how have you solved it?
Is it safe to remove the red film and just shield the film with the metal cover (or black insulation tape on cameras without a shield)?
Can the red film be replaced by thinner material, if so do you know where it can be obtained?
Thanks
Regards
Bob
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Malcolm_Stewart
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... but they have the red window system for winding on and I find this very difficult especially with film that uses light grey numbers. ...
I've just started using 120 film again after a lapse of some decades, and I'm quite amazed at the poor clarity of some of the modern exposure numbering. How Ilford, of all people, expect their medium grey dot imprints on a light grey background to be visible beggars belief! Not all of us use automatic counting bodies all the time. (I have a mixture.) OTOH, the numbers on a Provia 100F are very clear.
I think it's very sad to find that some inexperienced "artistic" type, with probably no experience whatsoever of how classic film cameras operate, should have been given the responsibility for this aspect of Ilford's relaunch, and that there was nobody around with more sense to veto the idea.
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NorthernMonkey
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Ilford discussed the reasoning behind this in some depth on APUG. Its to stop the ink rubbing onto the emulsion when the film is rolled up. They use a differnt paper to fuji.
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Malcolm_Stewart
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I obviously missed that when I was shooting digital only - if the paper is a problem, perhaps they should buy it from Fuji!
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PeteE
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almu : Sorry, only just found your query- not been very active lately due to treatment for Lymphoma cancer - well, I know what you mean about the red window- I find it needs a strong light to see the numbers- have NOT tried taking it off though! Peter
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