Outside The Minerva

I thought I’d finished posting my pictures from the day-trip I took to Hull a few months back but then I remembered this lone medium-format picture I took.

I’d planned on shooting more pictures with this camera – my 1950s Zeiss folder – but when I retrieved it from my bag after I took this shot I noticed that the film advance knob had fallen off! Luckily the bits were in the bottom of the bag but, without a screwdriver, I was unable to make a repair. Later, when I got home I put it together again, but something wasn’t right – the dial was wobbly in a way it hadn’t been before, so I feared that I might have lost some of the mechanism after all.

Then, a few days later, I decided to take another look in the camera bag and there, squeezed right under the padding at its base. was the final missing piece of camera. After fixing it back together properly I then shot the rest of the film on a couple of further outings – although there were further problems to come… I’ll reveal those in a future post.

https://flic.kr/p/2rEY2HB

Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 on Fujifilm Pro 400H. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 9 August 2025