@Sug
That is some fantastic B&W conversions! Beautifully made!
@Mingkookoo
@ Menos: Your Hektor is 79 years old !! Did you CLA yourself? Nice shots by the way.
… well, all 7.3cm Hektors are pretty old, actually. I will surely throw a party next year, when Hektor has his 80th anniversary.
I disassembled, cleaned, relubed, adjusted and assembled Hektor myself after acquiring the correct tools and finding the correct procedures to do so.
It was not some kind of hackjob, but a patiently and very relaxing thing to do, to understand Hektor better and learn about stuff.
Hektor now focusses silky smooth again, focusses spot on wide open from 1.5 m to infinity on Leica digital bodies and film after correctly collimating the lens.
The aperture is wonderfully smooth and the glass clean, as it can be after 79 years.
Unfortunately, I found, that my sample, as most others does have inevitable cleaning marks on the front element.
But anyway, I keep Hektor as an exceptionally clean and nice user, rather than sitting on him in a bank safe, waiting for a return.
@Rod
Dirk, nice contrast between the Canon and the Hektor. The Hektor is very atmospheric. I particularly like the shots of the two girls and the man painting the sidewalk.
Thanks Rod, I really love this Hektor a lot!
It has it's limitations (specifically with strong backlight, wrapping around the subject, where one should be careful, but otherwise it just has a beautiful rendering for B&W (which I do most of the time).
Here are a few from the same weekend, showing the rendering about the Hektor, that I like:
… missed focus slightly with this panning shot, when a man with a folding bed on his bike was zooming past on this busy crossroad:
… some people say, the old Hektor would not be sharp and therefore dismiss it as a collectors item only - I disagree - you clearly can see that fine detail is there, despite of the pleasing "glow" (this is shot at 1.5m wide open, which made this shot technically all the more impressive for me):
After cleaning the haze, the extreme loss of contrast and "glow" is gone, leaving a very smooth and nice rendering, which I really like.
