Since 2019 I’ve been photographing the remaining symbols of the German Democratic Republic using a stash of (non-PLUS) ILFORD HP5 medium format film that expired in 1990 — the same year as East Germany itself “expired.” I went full “Ossi” (German slang for Easterner) and chose as my kit the Pentacon Six with an 80mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar lens. Both camera and lens remain excellent tools for photography and in their prime, were the creme de la creme of the Warsaw Pact photographic world.

Continue reading 5 Frames… Of symbols of the German Democratic Republic 1990-expired ILFORD HP5 (120 Format / EI 80 / Pentacon Six + Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm f/2.8) – by Jeb Inge at EMULSIVE.