My new old Rolleiflex Automat showed up last week, straight from some eBay seller's aunt's attic where it has spent the last 40 years. Cleaned off the layers of dust and the gunk off the lenses, and it looks pretty good. I finally got two rolls of film through it this weekend so I could develop. Here's my favorites:





The most obvious difference from the Yashica is the depth of field—the blurring on the Yashica has a weird radial blur effect when the aperture is wide, but this lens is a lot more even. It seems like it might be a touch clearer, but that could be as much from the rangefinder as the optics. I'm curious if the negatives actually are sharper than the scanner can read.. Also, I'll try developing with half concentration twice as long next time: I've read that improves acutance.