Gorzów - some nice views nearby

Great artistic graffity to discover

Gorzów - Villa Hermann Paucksch

Johann Gottlieb Hermann Paucksch (1816-1899), was a successful industrialist from Landsberg, owned here the huge 'Maschinenbauanstalt und Dampfkesselfabrik H. Paucksch AG' and donated to the town the famous 'Paucksch Fountain' in 1897. The fountain was destroyed during the WW2, but re-erected in 1997. By this fountain Hermann Paucksch is still well known in Gorzów.

His Villa at the Warta is a three-storey building which Paucksch built in eclectic style in the late nineteenth century. After 1945 it became the headquarters of the Soviet army. I discovered this building quite soon, after I arrived here in Gorzów and like the little remainings of the former bigger park. Unfortunately it is not possible to go inside. 

The View to the warta

 

 

The main entrance

 

The destinctive tower of the Villa

 

The devil and his Hasselblad

This is a original scene still from a French film written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, 'La prisonnière', (Woman in Chains, Seine Gefangene) which was released in 1968. 

Laurent Terzieff on this photo is Stanislas Hassler, the wealthy owner of an art gallery in Paris and satanic persuador. This film advertising photo is by Constantin Film AG, this is the scan of the original copy, which is now in my archive.

The Hasselblad is a 500C with Planar f2.8/80 lens, quick focusing handle, lens shade and a magnifying hood.

Futher reading:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063458/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_prisonni%C3%A8re_(film)

Gorzów - modern domestic architecture

Area: ulica Plac Jana Pawła II, Gorzów Wielkopolski
Camera: Hasselblad 203FE, Distagon 4.0/40

 

 

Some industrial architecture in Gorzów

Gorzów Port

First time I heard about a Gorzów Port and found it, quite hidden:

 

Hasselblad 500C from 1957 goes digital

The Hasselblad 500 series startet after the less reliable 1600F and the better 1000F with the 500C in 1957. 1600F and 1000F both had focal plane shutters and maximum shutter speeds 1/1600 for the 1600F and 1/1000 for the 1000F. The early shutters are very thin steel sheets and quite vulnerable.

The new 500C, which looked very similar to the former models was introduced in the autumn of 1957 and had a different shutter concept. The lenses have integral leaf shutters, the body only have an auxiliary shutter made from fabric. The 500 series became the biggest success and the most known of all Hasselblad cameras and its last model 503CW was manufactured at least till 2010. All Hasselblad 500 are fully mechanical, without internal light metering. 

In 1957 only 1200 500C cameras have been made, mine is one of this first year. At the moment I know only three 500C from that year, some weeks ago I heard about a very early No. 17 found. 

From 2006 on, Hasselblad offered digital backs for their V-Series cameras (analog cameras, the new digital cameras are H-Series). The first CFV 16 had a CCD 16,6 MP square sensor, than came versions with 39 MP and 50 MP, but rectangular sensors. The actual version is the CFV 50c, with a rectangular CMOS sensor with 50 MP. Some other companies offer digital backs for the V-Series Hasselblad too, but only the Hasselblad backs fit even to the design of the cameras. I used first the CFV 16 II, now I upgraded to the CFV 50c.

It is highly astonishing, that the Hasselblad technicians of the 1950s designed such an open system, open even for developments, they could not think of that time, like digital photography. Changing from film to digital is so simple, just change the back, not even a cable to connect. Nearly all analog Hasselblad cameras from 1957 on can be used with digital backs.

This is my Hasselblad 500C from 1957, with Carl Zeiss Distagon 5.6/60 from 1956 and digital back CFV 50c from 2016. 

First test in a park in Gorzów.

Today I got up early and went to the Natur Protection Area 'Santockie Zakole' near Gorzów, to try some sunrise photos. After some shots it started to rain, but the remaining photos show clearly how good a not even fast Zeiss lens (f5.6) from 1956 works even in digital environment.

Nearly sunrise

Further Information:

https://www.amazon.de/Hasselblad-Compendium-including-Richard-2011-05-03/dp/0986918806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472976895&sr=8-1&keywords=hasselblad+compendium

http://www.hasselblad.com/de/digital-backs/cfv-50c

Christa Wolf Monument in Gorzów

Christa Wolf (born as Christa Ihlenfeld on 18 March 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, passed away on 1 December 2011 in Berlin) was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany. Her books were translated to many languages.

Currently I read her  ‚Kindheitsmuster’. This book tells about a 1972 return to her former home town, which name is now Gorzów Wielkopolski, to seach for her childhood rememberence. 

This monument is situated near the cathedral, is a cast-bronce by Michael Bajsarowicz and depicts the young Nelly Jordan, who is the strong autobiographically main figure in 'Kindheitsmuster.  The model for Nelly was the wife of the sculptor.

Photo with Hasselblad 203FE, Planar 2/110 and CVF 50c.

Further reading:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Wolf