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Back yard stroll with a Kodak Vollenda


Scratch pad--temp working space - Light of Day Lately I've been aiming at motifs in my back yard to test older cameras. These shots are my first from a Kodak Vollenda 6x9 folder that I got recently. The lens is an impressive-looking Kodak Anastigmat f/4.5 10.5cm job on a Compur shutter. I hoped this lens would compare to the Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3 that I have grown to love. This lens focuses to under 1 meter (front cell focusing), so I tried some close views that I cannot get with other cameras. While the central region was very sharp, this lens seems to have severe dropoff of acuity near the edge, which I attributed to the near-focusing front cell. The black and white shots are with respooled-to-620 APX 100 in D-76 1:1.
Kodak Vollenda 620







First closeup...
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Hostas in bloom


Another...
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Opportunistic plants...


And a last from this session.
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Goldfish dance with reflections


Analysis
The Vollenda is fun to use. I suspect the edges will look better for distance shots, but I can imagine ways to use the soft edge definition for some shot such as portraits. I'll be trying some more to find the sweet spot for this lens. These pix were mostly around f/8 to f/11 in open shade. One last detail below shows the fringing in the blurry zone from one of the hosta pix... a little more severe than I would have expected from a Kodak Anastigmat.
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Fringing on highlight detail