srjarratt
¡¡ Heresy !!
For your entertainment and consideration on this week's episode of CrAzY TuEsdAy is the heretical FranKenKaMerA where I installed the lens/shutter off my $26.81 No. 1 Pocket Kodak onto the front of a Polaroid Land Camera J66. Why would I do this? After a couple hours of trying to patch holes in the bellows on the recently acquired Kodak, I conceded it was toast. I had the J66 just laying around, figuring someday I'd find a lens to stick on the front of it. The hole was just slightly smaller than the Kodak lens required, so only a little grinding with a Dremel stone was necessary to make it fit. The J66 has detents for landscape and portrait focus each - both were too close to the film plane for the Kodak lens; however, the J66 bellows can be extended further where it locks into place. When set there, and with a piece of 4x5 sheet film stuffed in the back, it just so happens to be set to the hyperlocal distance for the Kodak lens. I've got a sheet of HP5+ in there right now, and I'll give it a go soon. Gonna try a night shot with it.
Photo taken by my Sony a7 with a bokeh master Canon 55mm ƒ1.2 lens set wide open on the front.
In time, I'll get around to replacing the bellows in the No. 1 Pocket Kodak.
Yeah I know, this isn't a pretty picture; but hopefully, very soon, it'll take pretty pictures.
Explored July 22, 2020 No. 247.
¡¡ Heresy !!
For your entertainment and consideration on this week's episode of CrAzY TuEsdAy is the heretical FranKenKaMerA where I installed the lens/shutter off my $26.81 No. 1 Pocket Kodak onto the front of a Polaroid Land Camera J66. Why would I do this? After a couple hours of trying to patch holes in the bellows on the recently acquired Kodak, I conceded it was toast. I had the J66 just laying around, figuring someday I'd find a lens to stick on the front of it. The hole was just slightly smaller than the Kodak lens required, so only a little grinding with a Dremel stone was necessary to make it fit. The J66 has detents for landscape and portrait focus each - both were too close to the film plane for the Kodak lens; however, the J66 bellows can be extended further where it locks into place. When set there, and with a piece of 4x5 sheet film stuffed in the back, it just so happens to be set to the hyperlocal distance for the Kodak lens. I've got a sheet of HP5+ in there right now, and I'll give it a go soon. Gonna try a night shot with it.
Photo taken by my Sony a7 with a bokeh master Canon 55mm ƒ1.2 lens set wide open on the front.
In time, I'll get around to replacing the bellows in the No. 1 Pocket Kodak.
Yeah I know, this isn't a pretty picture; but hopefully, very soon, it'll take pretty pictures.
Explored July 22, 2020 No. 247.