Soviet Camera Meet - Liberty Park Overloon

[Mr_Flibble]

A few fellows from the Dutch Analog Photo Forum met up at the Liberty Park war museum on the 24th of March. The only loosely set rule was that we should bring our FSU (and Eastern German) cameras. It was a little disappointing that only 5 of us actually turned up.

I brought my FED-1d NKVD with a FED 50mm f/3.5 lens. The guy who organized the meeting gave us all a free roll of film from his store. I choose to go with Fomapan 400 because the light would be a limiting factor in the museum.
He suggested I expose it at 250 ASA instead of 400. But this affected the highlights somewhat in my opinion.

Scans were done at 2400dpi in Vuescan with B/W negative settings and TMAX-400 film pre-sets.
Curves were adjusted in CS2 to bring out the contrast a bit more from the uncoated lens.

1."Wo ist mein Fahrrad?" we'd really like them back after 70+ years 😉

2. Detail of a Sherman Flail tank

3. DUKW amphibious truck loaded with 105mm howitzer

4. Howitzer rifling

5. Inside the M3 White Scout car

6. Russian T34 medium tank

7. Tiring work

8. Poorly exposed T-55 turret and Mig-21

9. Turret details of a T-34/85 tank

10. American ski trooper

11. Signs

Despite missing the focus a bit in the poor light (and low contrast in the RF) I think these turned out quite nicely.
Not bad for a 73 year old camera and lens.
Looking forward to the next meet-up.

Cheers.



.....Now, let's see if that Zorki C with Jupiter-3 was up to the cold this last weekend.

 

[KoNickon]

Too bad there weren't more of you -- looks like a fine museum and sounds like a good time. How did that T34 get to Holland, I wonder? And does that Panther next to it not have its treads?

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I'm sure the T-34 and other Russian tanks were acquired by the museum over the years. They're not particularly rare of course 😉
As I recall most of these came from the G.C. Marshall Museum Collection.

I assume they were doing some maintenance to the Panther. It was knocked out during the battle of Overloon in September/October 1944. It was partially restored a few years ago (with parts exchanged from another Panther restoration project in the city of Breda). I hated the fact that they applied Zimmerit coating to it even though it wasn't used anymore at the time of the battle. Glad to see they've removed it now.
A real shame that they sold the engine though.

 

[B-9]

Excellent shots! Here in the Michigan, every VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post has atleast an unarmed piece of heavy gunnery wasting away out front! If not a collection of heavy iron.

 

[farlymac]

You did good, Rick. The rifling shot is great.

PF

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Thanks,

The collection from the George C. Marshall Museum on display at Liberty Park is fantastic; A large number of WW2 US Army logistic and maintenance vehicles and some amazing displays of the major engagements.

Definitely worth a visit if you're ever in The Netherlands.