First roll exposed with Nikonos-v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

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First roll exposed with Nikonos-V and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens.

 
After more than year of watchlisting this camera in eBay, finally i bought the orange one. It’s was crazy to observe how abruptly the price have risen , especially last summer, so i decided to stop watching and to take one for me too. I’m not a underwater diver or waves surfer and not going to dip it in the waters of the Red Sea, but a bad weather condition is my target of idea to have it. To be patience and to buy both parts separately – these my secrets of founding the nice price for this camera (actually can work for almost everything). And of course a huge inspiration i got from these photographers after reading their posts and looking on their results of the using by Nikonos – “BY Dirk Marwede”, “by Phil Kneen”, “by Hamish Gill” and “by Will Holder”

I got the both parts of this camera very fast and almost in the same day and as soon as possible loaded the first roll i saw in my fridge, it as Agfa APX film roll that i wrongly (as i got later) decided to push to 400 ISO and did it too fast for my usual “slow speed film shooting”. When the roll was already in tank, i read in a few forum’s conversation that this film just don’t like any “extremely wrong” use and feel itself better in the box speed only.

For the first roll i used this camera in fully manual mode – i really love this possibility, instead of my lovely “Ricoh GR1s” that impossible without a batteries or also beloved “Fuji GA645” I canceled my wish to bath it in Kodak D-76 and returned back to my long time used for every film semi-stand process in Rodinal developer. After the almost two loooong hours of waiting, with the only shot pause for a few agitations in the middle, i got it looks very nice. The only problem was in my ilford Hypam fixer – i found a huge amount of white flakes floating there and even i filtered the needed solution, i think it partially ruined the negatives with the white spots (big and small). Due to this white noise i’m publishing the only few most clean results of this batch.

Thank you for reading these few words – here the frames :

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

First roll exposed with Nikonos v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens

 

 

Thank you for the patience – check the other posts as well if you still in inertion 🙂

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12 Replies to “First roll exposed with Nikonos-v and Nikkor 35mm Underwater Lens”

    1. haha ! not really underwater but actually this camera is working well also above water and this lens dont create an optical distortions like other models of Nikkor underwater lenses 😉 so i dont care were to shoot !

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  5. Superb shots Victor! Awesome use of this combo, not a lot of people know they can be used above water! Believe it or not, I have a Nikonos III with the same lens!

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  6. WOAW ….I remember the Nikonos cameras. The weather-circumstances should not be a challenge , when useing a Nikonos. I also remember the Rodinal-developer. Some decades ago , I also used Rodinal , to develope my B/W-films. When I used my Hasselblad 501 CM (with the Planar 80 / 2,8) , I gradually moved over to colour-positiv film . Those pictures were mounted in 6×6-frames , so the pictures could be projected through my RolleiVision 66-projector (which is still working very vell).

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    1. thank you for taking a look and for the kind words. One day i will go with this camera underwater ;-)))
      Hasselblad 501cm is amazing. Hope you still have it..To sell Hasselblad is a crime 😉
      I use 500cm and in endless love with this camera

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