First pictures of my Ricoh 500RF

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matu

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Recently I bought a Ricoh 500 RF at a flea market. I was looking after the Ricoh 500G, and these one it´s very similar.

I had to repair the backdoor seal.
It uses a 1.3 mercury battery (old problem), but I puted in a 1.5 alcaline battery, I haven´t got any problems by now. I read there would be a 10% of difference in the CDS meter.

The lense is not very sharp but I like the images it delivers. It´s a small fun camera.

I´ve added some pictures taken with it to my gallery.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/805
 
matu, what an absolutely lovely set of photos.
they have a old time look to them. i had to check what film you used and thought it must be a mistake. i didn't think tmax could look so warm & soft.
i like the contemplation two the best but all of them were lovely.

joe
 
Thanks Joe, I used T-Max 400.
I developed it with D-76 at full strength, I scanned the images with a Flatbed Epson Perfection 1670. I tweaked a little with Photoshop.
I´m trying diffrent film types and brands, since I´m newby in B&w photo. It seems to me that T-Max has better latitude than Tri-X, but when Í get a good exposure with it I like it better than T-Max.

Here is the picture without Tweak.
 
I love this series. Your Children are Beautiful, and the lighting and softness of the lens accentuates that fact.
 
Great job Matu !! I've used this same lens on a zone focus Ricoh 35 ZF and it's true, it gives a pleasant soft touch to images that works very well with some subjects. Does somebody know how's the design from that lens, I'd risk myself saying it has a sort of Tessar touch...
 
Thanks Taffer, in fact the images you made, encouraged me buying the Ricoh.

Saludos

Pablo
 
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