birdcage
sorry
more old random camera stuff. I found out that B&H still sometimes sells 828 film, so I went in search of a camera that takes 828, just to see what it would look like. I won a Kodak Pony II 828, which allows one to set the aperature using the "exposure value." On the back is a handy little chart that says things like: 8.5 Open Shade, 9.5 Cloudy Bright, 10.5 Hazy Sun, 11.5 Bright Sun, 12.5 Br't Sun Sand Snow. Which is all well and good until you look at the lens and realize that your exposure value settings run from 10 to 15. No Open Shade for you! Of course, it also says that this is for Kodachrome, which I recall as being iso 64.
So, I win this thing, and in anticipation of its arrival I purchase 5 wildly overpriced rolls of 828 film. Rub hands together. Open box. Guess what? It takes regular old 35 mm. *sigh*. Anyone want to buy 5 rolls of 828 film?
I took this on a photo walk/Korean-Chinese lunch trip to Wheaton with Pat/a nameless yeast and Snelson. I used iso 400 Fuji print film and left it set on exposure value 10. As it is not an slr, nor is it a rangefinder, all focusing is guessing. All of the images on the roll came out pretty interesting, but some came out really interestingly. A series of pictures (not including this one) towards the end of the roll came out with an odd yellowy-pinkish color cast that makes them look like pictures you found in the back of that hutch in your grandfather's dining room that he took with his old Pony II Camera in 1964 and then forgot about. Maybe my entire understanding of why old pictures look that way is all wrong. Maybe they just came out that way to begin with.
sorry
more old random camera stuff. I found out that B&H still sometimes sells 828 film, so I went in search of a camera that takes 828, just to see what it would look like. I won a Kodak Pony II 828, which allows one to set the aperature using the "exposure value." On the back is a handy little chart that says things like: 8.5 Open Shade, 9.5 Cloudy Bright, 10.5 Hazy Sun, 11.5 Bright Sun, 12.5 Br't Sun Sand Snow. Which is all well and good until you look at the lens and realize that your exposure value settings run from 10 to 15. No Open Shade for you! Of course, it also says that this is for Kodachrome, which I recall as being iso 64.
So, I win this thing, and in anticipation of its arrival I purchase 5 wildly overpriced rolls of 828 film. Rub hands together. Open box. Guess what? It takes regular old 35 mm. *sigh*. Anyone want to buy 5 rolls of 828 film?
I took this on a photo walk/Korean-Chinese lunch trip to Wheaton with Pat/a nameless yeast and Snelson. I used iso 400 Fuji print film and left it set on exposure value 10. As it is not an slr, nor is it a rangefinder, all focusing is guessing. All of the images on the roll came out pretty interesting, but some came out really interestingly. A series of pictures (not including this one) towards the end of the roll came out with an odd yellowy-pinkish color cast that makes them look like pictures you found in the back of that hutch in your grandfather's dining room that he took with his old Pony II Camera in 1964 and then forgot about. Maybe my entire understanding of why old pictures look that way is all wrong. Maybe they just came out that way to begin with.