A Nikon F3 HP found again, put a special strap and a no less special lens on it
I’m moving house and while getting some furniture out of the old place, my son found my old Nikon F3 HP among the flotsam and the jetsam. A nice surprise!
The self-confidently named “German Camera Museum” is located on the first floor of a primary school in Plech near Nuremberg.
It all started as an elderly gentleman’s sprawling camera collection who was given an ultimatum by his wife. Then there are always donations, as told by the young woman who looks after the museum, which is open every Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. She offered me a private tour of the collection, as I was the only guest until 12:00 a.m..
So here are my impressions from the Deutsches Kameramuseum:
Oh, okay, they called it the “Hunchback of Solms” when it was produced in that Leica company headquarters in the late nineties, early naughties. But I got mine yesterday in Wetzlar in the Classic Store on the Leitz Park campus.
Well, up to now it’s been only two rolls of Kodak Tri-X 400 out of the new, old XPan and you can see the results here and here. You may wonder how I scan them, how much of a bother it is and here is how:
It was an advertisement by Hasselblad for the XPan, a 24×65 mm panoramic camera. Funny slogan, considering that Hasselblad is otherwise associated with the square 56 x 56 mm format. But Hasselblad was always too hip to be square …
The idea of wanting this camera came back to me like a boomerang. Fact is that I infected my oldest son (29 years) with Leicaphilia. He uses an M6 TTL and some rather long lenses, but in one of our last phone calls he raved about an M3.
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