This is my first roll created with the Canonet QL17 III. The film was Ilford FP4+ (box speed), a yellow filter was used, and it was developed in Ilfoetec DDX in a rotary processor for 8.5 minutes at 68F. Impressions. I was able to achieve good focus on most of the images, despite having trouble getting used to the focusing lever, which is awkward. The image shot facing the sun has terrible flare and this is no surprise – I added clarity to this image in Lightroom to make the it somewhat usable. All but the sunset image were shot with the aperture ring set to A to test the camera’s native choices. The sunset image was shot in manual at 1/30th of a second, I believe at F 1.7.
In A mode, the camera tends to underexpose about one half stop or so and on most of the shots I added a half a stop of exposure in post processing. The images are generally low in contrast out of the camera. Whether this is from the development process or not is an unknown.
I scanned the images using the Nikon ES2. The Nikon D850 was set to manual and in live view focus peaking was used against a neutral backlight. This scanning process is ridiculously easy. RAW images were inverted in Lightroom. The ES2 scans show the frame number and film type, kind of cool. I could have cropped the images but decided not to.
Here some of the above (cropped to admittedly small size) and other images from the roll run through Silver Efex Pro. The lens is capable of making sharp images, the details were there for the taking in post processing, but it is very much hit and miss with fine focusing.
