Forgotten Camera: Matjaž Lužnik

My Mother's Flowers, by Matjaž Lužnik
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This is my second "Forgotten Camera" post.

This is a second camera. It is an Altissa Altix-n and it was produced in the 'Sixtes in East Germany. I got it by chance; my friend was cleaning a storage room in his house and he wanted to throw it away....

It's a nice little camera, perfect for point-and-shoot and for street photography. It's all manual (exposure, focus by manual metering distance), but in sunny day you only use the "sunny 16" rule, set it on hyperfocal distance and shoot...It has very nice sharp lens Mayer-Optic Görlitz 50mm ƒ/2.9. You could buy also 35mm and 90mm lenses.

I simply love this camera. Most of the time I shoot black and white film, which I develop in my bathroom and then scan on my scanner. But this photo is some kind of exception; I was shooting colored film (Fuji superia 1600), developed in local lab. The subject, it's my mother's flowers in front of my house.

Matjaž Lužnik
Slovenija, European Union

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