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Welta Junior Samples

Today I managed to scan the first negatives I have shot with the Welta Junior. I tried the camera in both 4.6×6 and 6×6 format. In both cases I have used Efke R 50 BW negative film. I developed the film in Caffenol. Result is quite satisfactory, however the pictures are a bit soft. I edited them a lot in Photoshop. This is the best I could get out of them:

I mainly changed the levels, applied unsharp mask and pulled the contrast to the sky.

Since the viewfinder not viewing trough the lens there is a slight problem with the focus, but maybe I can improve that by practice.

 

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Welta Junior

I have made some photos about the Welta Junior that I mentioned in my former post. I did not find any marks on it about the year it was made. I guess it was after the second world war around 1947. The camera supports two formats: 6×6 and 4.5×6. The smaller format requires a small metal frame to restrict light from the film. The lens has 75mm focal length. It is a Trioplan lens made by Meyer-Optic. The aperture can be set from f/2.9 to f/22. Focus is marked from 1.6m to infinity. The shutter can be set for 1/25s, 1/50s, 1/100s, B and T where B probably means Bulb. I do not know the meaning of T. I should check this later.

Here are the images:

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Success with Efke R 50 120 Film and Caffenol

As I wrote earlier I had couple of failed film development with Efke R 50 120 FilmĀ  and caffenol. For those films I have used my pinhole camera that I made from an Agfa Clack. Now I tried the same film with a Welta Junior camera. This camera was my grandmother’s camera and I just got it from my parents recently. It is a nice little folding camera. It was made around 1947, right after the second world war. It can shoot two formats: 6×6 or 4.5×6. I developed the film with caffenol the same way as I did earlier. It was successful. Basically all the shots are correctly exposed, as far as I can tell that by looking on the negatives.

 

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