Agfa Karat IV w/Solagon 50mm f/2.0
I just posted a similar looking digital photo of this camera a couple days ago. But this shot is much more about the gear used to take the photo. I dragged out my Speed Graphic 4x5 for the first time in several years, and wanted to test an old lens pulled from a folding camera. Read on...
Photo taken with a Graflex 1941 Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5 camera, using Ilford HP5 Plus black and white sheet film; Developed in Kodak HC-110.
The lens used a Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. "Rapid Rectilinear" lens mounted in an Eastman Kodak Co. ball bearing shutter which dates to roughly between 1914 and 1920. The lens/shutter combo was borrowed from a No. 3-A Folding Pocket Kodak Model C camera (from the same period of course).
I suspected this lens would prove to be quite sharp, and I was not let down in that assumption! Now I'll look forward to testing out this combo out in the world, rather than just holed up in my office.
Agfa Karat IV w/Solagon 50mm f/2.0
I just posted a similar looking digital photo of this camera a couple days ago. But this shot is much more about the gear used to take the photo. I dragged out my Speed Graphic 4x5 for the first time in several years, and wanted to test an old lens pulled from a folding camera. Read on...
Photo taken with a Graflex 1941 Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5 camera, using Ilford HP5 Plus black and white sheet film; Developed in Kodak HC-110.
The lens used a Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. "Rapid Rectilinear" lens mounted in an Eastman Kodak Co. ball bearing shutter which dates to roughly between 1914 and 1920. The lens/shutter combo was borrowed from a No. 3-A Folding Pocket Kodak Model C camera (from the same period of course).
I suspected this lens would prove to be quite sharp, and I was not let down in that assumption! Now I'll look forward to testing out this combo out in the world, rather than just holed up in my office.