First pics from Agfa Parat-I

[schrackman]

Thanks to Andrew Dailinger who did a great job developing my roll of Acros 100 in HC-110 for 5 1/2 minutes. Many of my pictures were blurry due to not focusing correctly (which is kinda hard with the Parat-I), but a few came out halfway decent. Here are just a few scans for now:

This first is perhaps the sharpest image I took:

Will try to post some more later, but I have to say that I like the results from Acros in HC-110.

 

[ZeissFan]

Very cool photos. I really like them. I was so impressed with your Optima-Parat that I bought one too.

 

[schrackman]

Very cool photos. I really like them. I was so impressed with your Optima-Parat that I bought one too.

That's great! Can't wait to see some pics. But did you get the Optima, or the Parat? They're two different cameras, aren't they?

Here's a few more from the roll. Not as sharp as the first one, unfortunately:

 

[sweathog]

I'm currently watching a Parat on the bay, and I get the feeling that it will be a worthy purchase, having looked at these shots.

 

[payasam]

Because of the greater degree of enlargement needed, focussing becomes more critical with half frame cameras. Is the Parat perhaps a scale focus camera?

 

[shadowfox]

Ray, nice pictures, full of characters!

Secondly, you're good at making diptych's from the two-halves.

The Parat is scale-focusing, is it not?

 

[schrackman]

Yep, it's a scale focus camera. To be honest, I don't what I did correctly to get the first one so sharp. I just guestimated the distance. On the San Gorgonio signs, however, I set it to infinity and they still came out not totally in focus. It appears the focusing ring just may need a bit of readjustment.

 

[ZeissFan]

Ray, here's my writeup of my camera. I had some similar issues with focusing. I used to be better than that! The second roll was better.