further #photography experiments: my first roll of medium-format film, on an untested 1950s folding camera, using Ilford XP2, which is not meant to be developed in normal B&W chemistry so I had to make up the times.

Amazingly, there are actually pictures coming out on the film. I mean, let's not assume they're in focus or reasonably exposed, but still.

The camera itself is surprisingly well-preserved for something that has "MADE IN GERMANY US-ZONE" on the back. Retail UK price was £10/4/4 for this model, which is pretty close to what I paid on ebay last week.

Technically really interesting to use as well - the shutter controls are all on the lens itself, so you set aperture and exposure, cock the shutter, and then that's it. No meter, but thankfully a phone takes care of that these days...

Focusing is entirely by a distance dial - this was the cheap model of the series, with no rangefinder. (You paid almost twice as much for that, but you did also get a wider lens)