{"id":9436,"date":"2013-08-03T08:07:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9436"},"modified":"2013-08-03T08:07:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T15:07:02","slug":"kodak-retina-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9436","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Retina II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KodakRetinaII-9777\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\"KodakRetinaII-9774\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> \"KodakRetinaII-9775\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I absolutely love the industrial design of this camera, all the little touches that add up to a suburb whole. The knurled knobs and engraved script say this is a precision\u00a0analog device.\u00a0 It has a faster than average f2.0 Xenon lens that like the rest of the camera is made in Germany.\u00a0 Away from the center it gives distinctive out of focus highlights that are shaped more like a football than a circle.<\/p>\n

\"KodakRetinaII_Bokeh-005\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately the viewfinder is small and the rangefinder patch is dim making composing and focusing less than ideal.\u00a0 In some cases it was easier to set the focus via the distance scale on the front of the lens rather than by using the rangefinder.\u00a0 The result was quite a few\u00a0missed focus\u00a0shots, but as is my usual refrain you get images with a certain look from it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t