I really appreciate your message here, Martin. My grandfather didn't like to talk about the war, when he fought for the US in Italy, and I think he wanted to avoid glorifying it with war stories. For him, it was just a sacrifice to be made, and he was lucky to get out mostly unscathed. He would have appreciated this tribute.

Wow, amazing bokeh there. Great photos.

I enjoy all of your videos. This one is especially compelling. What a lovely tribute.

Martin, I really enjoy all of your videos. These are always very informative, well explained, no nonsense and well done. Your expertise for making videos is top notch, as are your photographs. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.

you have an amazing eye for composition. truly a pleasure to watch.

Another very good video and as I've said before "I love your camera collection"! Love to see some portraits done with that lens.

Well done. Wonderful tribute to the men who gave their lives for liberty.

Beautiful images. The clarity is stunning.

Beautiful work! And I love those Pentacon 6 cameras! Thank you for your thoughtful video!

I have had the opportunity to use that camera and lens combination and you are absolutely right about it making some of the nicest medium format images you can find. I have seen people do fantastic portraits with it, too.

Beautifully shot Martin. Thankyou for doing that. The first gravestone gave me pause for thought. Royal Signals. My Dad served in them throughout WWII. Lest we forget.

Beautiful video, but also sad to see all these (young)man who have fallen

Thanks again for another great video Martin. They whole video I though you were shooting a 135mm camera. I had no idea that Pentacon 6tl was a medium format rig. Great work on remembering the WWI and WWII fallen. 100% agree with you, these guys need to be remembered as does their tremendous sacrifice. Thank you for helping us all remember.

Another great video Martin well done

Very interesting. Thank you.

Thanks Martin for that beautiful video. I enjoyed it as every other video from you. There are many channels about film photography out there which are mostly about comparing gear, film stock other technical stuff. But your channel (espacially this video) is about what people often forget...telling a story with your photos, getting great compositions and just go out to shoot pictures. So thank you for your great work and your beautiful way of showing the important things about (film) photography. I also have the Pentacon Six and the 180mm and love it very much. I haven´t used it wide open at 2.8 very often, but I will do it now for sure!

I sincerely appreciate your videos, Martin. This one in particular. It made me buy the same sonnar lens you use in this video. It had the same problems you encountered with your lens, the aperture was stuck wide open. I removed the front and rear elements, which gave me access to the aperture mechanism. The aperture blades and the aperture ring were baked together with the remnants of grease and dirt. I disassembled the complete mechanism and cleaned each aperture blade first with lighter fluid and then with isopropanol. The inner aperture ring was not only dirty, but also a little corroded. I polished it carefully with my Dremel and cleaned it again. Then I reassembled everything without oiling or greasing, which is a little bit fiddly, but doable. The mechanism is working fine now. I use this really magnificent lens not only on my P6, it is also one of my favorite lenses for portrait work on my Nikon D750. I use the Hartblei adapter, it is the only one that doesn't have uncontrolled reflections in the adapter. Again many thanks for your videos, keep up the good work!

Very respectful visit ... well done, well done

A very moving video, Martin.

Absolutely fantastic Martin, my Grandad rests under a CWWG headstone in France, after the D-day landings, the work they do to keep them in good order is second to none, and the least that can be done for these fallen hero’s. Some really great shots there and all very tastefully done. That lens looks awesome.

Very good subject and execution. greetings

Sad stories and beautiful pictures! We had that camera and lens in our Photo Laboratory at Faculty of Industrial Design at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw when I studied there 1979-1984 - really great camera and lens and producing great pictures.

Very nice and true. Some deeds deserve to be remembered. Just yesterday I took my Sonnar out to take a few portraits and found out that aperture also got stucked open. :-) Will send it fo repair in few days. And I also use stand development for my bw films but with more diluted developer and times up to over an hour. :-) Nice method think.

Martin, again another great video. Thank you some much for making these videos. I have learned so much, love film photography, and love to develop film. If you can make a video on your developing technique, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, you friend from Miami, Florida.

The aperture stucks because there is oil on the blades. Common issue with those old Zeiss lenses. There are some videos about the disassembly, but you can also find some people on the net who are able to fix this. Aperture must be taken apart, cleaned, reassembled. Cleaning it while it is in it's place is impossible.

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Great video! What's that magnifier you are using, Martin? I'd really need one myself!

Absolutley beautiful work. I am curious as to why you were not using the spot meter function of your light meter. Thanks for sharing

Inhave this camera and Lens as Well and i cant wait to shoot it. Could you Tell me wich film stock u have used or wich you could recommend? Thank you 😊

I love these images. I have the same camera and magnifier, but only the 80mm Biometar lens. I'll look for the Sonnar. Is your zebra version as good as the more modern MC version?

Hey Martin, those images are absolutely gorgeous! May i ask which film was used?

Hi Martin.Really appreciate the video. What do I search to find the magnifying eyepiece you used on the first image in the video? I would love one for my P6

A great project well worth watching. I use Pyro HD sometimes but is there a noticeable difference or benefit using the 510 Pyro.

Thanks for sharing. I have the same lens but no one will touch my Pentacon Six camera, it needs a CLA. only the 1:1000 shutter speed is working :(

Hi Martin What dilution are you using with semi stand 510Pyro? Many thanks in advanced. Glenn

Very sombre and beautiful tribute to our fallen soldiers, thanks for highlighting the sacrifice they made for us in the World Wars Interesting that you developed it for 20 minutes and how many times did you invert at the 7 and 13 minute mark? I recommend @1:100 15m 30 agitating continuously for the 1st minute then once only at the 10 minute mark. The negative you showed looked a bit over developed

Is there a great difference between the magnifying glass of the waist level finder compared to the magnifying finder?

Nice one Martin. Great to see the Pentagon out again. Do you have any other lenses for this Camera? Have you ever considered getting the 180 fixed? I watched a video by John French at kzfaq.infovideos on 510 Pyro. That was the first time I had heard of it but it does look a promising developer to try. I'm just getting into Pyrocat HD so it might have to wait a bit.

I’m sorry, but I didn’t quite catch what developer you used. Something with 10? My hearing is not great evidently

Very poignant photography. Instead of constantly changing the waist level finder to magnifying hood and back, you can always leave the waist level finder on, and use your 4X5 loup on the GG of the camera to fine tune the focus. With a 6X6 camera there is enough room on the GG, provided you were not using one of those oversized loups. Thanks for sharing the video.

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