Detlev Mueller

Hi, I'm Detlev, good friends use to call me Deti. I'm from Burgdorf, a small town NE Hannover/.de. I use to photograph since I was 10 or so, beginning with a Perfekta II, a MF bakelite rangefinder camera manufactured by VEB Rheinmetall in the former GDR. A few years later the Perfekta was followed by my first SLR, a Topcon Uni. In the 80s the Topcon was replaced by a Yashica FR1, which I used for again some 20 years. Then I switched to the dark side - aehm - to digital photography, which lead me from Canon A40, Canon A60, and a Kodak Easyshare Z7950 (still used) to an also still used Canon EOS 350D. In 2012, I rediscovered analog photography, when a Voigtländer Vito CL crossed my way. First I thought, it would be a nice addition to my smalll collection of historical cameras, but when drawing a film with it, I noticed what fun it made. Immediately I added a Voigtländer Vitomatic Ia to the collection, resurrected my old Yashica, and found a Meopta Flexaret IVa, a Czech made TLR, which was my entrance to MF photography. Currently I'm using a Zenza Bronica ETRSi with prism finder AE-II, a Zenzanon-PE 1:2.8/75 mm, a Zenzanon-MC 1:4/150 mm, and two 4.5*6 mags. I still have another ETRS body with prism finder AE, and a Polaroid mag. So if anybody is interested in these items ...