I like using this little camera, which is surprising weighty considering its size and I think that the Canon lens, itself not exactly lightweight, gives surprisingly good results for its vintage. The Tamar Bridge, in the background, carries road transport and has a pedestrian walkway. The Brunel Railway Bridge features heavily in this set of photographs completed in 1859 it dominates the Saltash river front and remains in use to this day. I exposed the film at box speed and developed it in Rodinal at 1+25 which would enhance the grain to some extent, although I didn’t notice any significant graininess when I scanned the negatives and processed them in Lightroom.

Additionally, I saw that the film has very good exposure latitude and where I would, ordinarily, expect heavy shadow, I found good shadow detail with no loss of highlights and a very good level of sharpness. The sunshine made for a high contrast environment and I was interested to see how the Kentmere film would perform it is not known for particularly great contrast, although I found that the contrast was generally quite good. I went out on a remarkably sunny day, a welcome break from all the rain we have been having in the West Country, walking over the Tamar bridge out of Plymouth and down into Saltash and the county of Cornwall. I decided to use Kentmere film simply to try it out and was surprised at the result in a number of ways. This is now the lens that I use, with better results, in my opinion. This lens was not terrible, but lacked the contrast I expect from a Leica camera and, having read about photographers from back in the day who substituted it for a Canon lens, I decided to do the same.

The original lens was the Elmar 5cm f3.5, the type that sits inside the camera body and you pull out when taking photographs. I have used this little Leica for a couple of years having bought it 2 nd hand during the Lock-downs.

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