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My new (old!) toy that I got on eBay for $35 -- a working Zeiss Ikon Contaflex I 35mm SLR, circa 1950 or '51, with a Carl Zeiss Tessar 45mm 2.8 lens, made in Stuttgart, Germany. (Ja, Schwabenland!) This baby is all-manual, uses no batteries, and has no light meter. It has no thumb winder, either -- you must twist the RH knob clockwise to wind the film and cock the shutter (no auto mirror-return either).
And changing film rolls quickly? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (not!)
I took this shot of myself, among others, with the Contaflex today, and had it developed in the late afternoon. I popped in a 400-speed roll of 24 as soon as I received it in the mail. I have had some rolls hanging around since 2003, when my last film camera broke. I got fresh 800-speed today when I picked up my developed roll.
This will appear with me in my show this weekend, and I'll be running real film through it during my Act 1 scenes as a news photographer. The show is Bye Bye Birdie, set in 1958.
I brought my 20D onstage with me today, during our brush-up rehearsal, to take light-meter readings. My scenes under full lights will allow me to use 800-speed film and a 1/60 shutter with an aperture of 4.0. I have a 36 exp. roll of 1600 to run, so I can pop up to a 1/125 shutter with the same ap. (Had to get the 1600 at ProEx, a local chain like Ritz Camera -- Target doesn't carry 1600 any more, natch.)
Tomorrow AM I shall develop the roll I shot tonight, to make sure my meter readings worked for this old German workhorse. I'm also not sure the film was advancing the whole time. I swear it felt like I had shot 30 shots or more on a 24 exp. roll by the time I stopped and rewound, but I could be wrong -- I wasn't really counting. (But I know how fast I can fire off 30 shots on my DSLR without realizing it.) I did feel it rewinding, so maybe if I had taken just one more shot I would have reached the end.