Gorzów - roof sceneries

Cloudy weather in Gorzów and cold, and I want to test my CFE Sonnar 4.0/180 under these harder photografical circumstances. Switched ISO to 400, shutter speed to 1/250 and made a little afternoon stroll through wellknown roads. This time I was looking more to the roofs of the houses. Aperture was mostly 4.0 (that is open aperture for this lens), in few cases 5.6.

The Sonnar 4.0/180 is one of the few new lens designs after the Hasselblad CF series and is known as superbly sharp and one of the best Zeiss lenses for Hasselblad. From the CFE version only 1000 to 2000 have been manufactured. My lens is from 2001.

 

 For the last photo I looked more to the bottom.

Skwierzyna - portrait of a town

Very subjective portrait of course! Skwierzyna (former Schwerin an der Warthe) is a little town situated only about 25 km south from Gorzów. I saw this town quite often from far going south for my monthly home trip to Austria. It is distinctive by its many towers and I always thought about visiting it for a closer look. This Saturday the weather seemed comparatively nice and I took my Hasselblad 503CXi out for a little excursion. 

I learned to use the Hasselblad for portrait formats too by the prism PME45. The VFC50c digital back has a rectangular format instead the native Hasselblad square format 6x6 and with the normal waste level finder it is nearly impossible to shoot portrait format. But the PME45 not only offers through-the-lens light measuring, with this device it is quite easy to shoot portrait format. Something a Hasselblad V serie camera never was thought for!

One of the destinctive towers in the town

Protestant Church

Town Hall from 1841

Post Office

 

 

Abandoned storehouse

Inside the storehouse

Old granary

Market stalls

The back side of the pretty town - waste management

Gorzów - St. Mary's Cathedral

St. Mary's Cathedral is the oldest building in Gorzów Wielkopolski. It was founded at the end of the 12th century on the site of the city's former church. The cathedral was constructed in the gothic style, although it also includes romanesque elements. 

Yesterday I visited a photo exhibition inside the Cathedral and took some evening shots outside with Canon 5D III and the little EF 1.8/28 lens. 

Today I visited the tower of the Cathedral up to the top as only foreigner with a big groop of Polish children. The tower is huge inside and the rooms are used as a museum. The guide explained a lot, I understood nothing. The church bell and turret clock photos are by smartphone. 

On the highest point unfortunately all windows with the nice views over the town were closed and locked. The window glasses were quite dirty, so I quickly decided not to take any photo. But the friendly guide mentioned my disappointment and that I brought a big heavy camera (Hasselblad 503CXi, Distagon 4.0/40, PME45 and digital back) all these steps up to the top and without a word unlocked two windows for me and I could shoot some city views. Very nice guide - thank you.

Lord Snowdon and his Hasselblad

Found one page from an unknown French newspaper, it shows Lord Snowdon during a photo session in 1958. This photo is by Tony Blau, photo rights seem to be at Camera Press / Retna Ltd. There are two photos of this session to find in the net, I am happy with this one. The Hasselblad is a 1000F, the lens seems to be a Kodak Ektar, the tripod is from Linhof. Interesting the leather fixed to the chimney finder to protect the glasses.
 

Further reading:

http://www.biography.com/people/lord-snowdon-20846059

Gorzów - town of monuments

Gorzów Wielkopolski has many statues and monuments, some of them I have already showed in this blog. Some new herewith. All photos with Hasselblad 503CXi, Planar CF 3.5/100 and CFV50c.

The painter Ernst Henseler (1852-1940)

 

The Paucksch fountain

‚Janusz’ by Ewa Bone and Eve Kozubal

 

Janusz Korczak (in fact Henryk Goldszmit,1878 or 1879-1942. He was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author and pediatrician. His live and works please check in the link at the bottom. 

Further reading:

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

Be under Arms - Russion Metal band in C-60

The C-60 Club in Gorzów from Autumn to Spring is a good adress for live Rock concerts. Friday the 7th of October the Russion band 'Be Under Arms' was on stage. This Metal band was founded in 2013 and comes from Moskva.The resentments against Russions here in Poland seems still high, only about 20 listeners although a great performance and good music.

Bar of the C-60. The name of the club comes from the C-60 music casettes, made by Stilon in Gorzów.

 

Vladimir 'Szandor' Nasonov

 

Anna Logachova (aka White Queen)

All photos with Canon EOS 5D III and Canon Macro Lens EF 100mm 1:2.8 L IS USM. 


Further information:

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Be_Under_Arms-l-de.html

https://beunderarms.bandcamp.com/