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Testing out Photoshop's Oil Paint filter on one of the first pictures taken with my “old” Canon EOS 7D, that of my Simplex X-L 35mm projector head.
Camera: 1952 Leica IIIf RD 35mm Rangefinder.
Lens: Waterworth 2 inch Centaur f/3.5.
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus ISO 125 35mm black & white negative.
Development: Ilford ID-11 1 + 3 @ 20C/21m.
Camera supported on Linhof Junior tripod & ball head.
Lens is wide open for this image. Focus point is the "W" badge and lens of the nearest projector, carefully set via the Leica's coupled rangefinder. For a lens with a little front coating damage (cleaning-related I suspect), I thought the contrast and resolution of such an old lens to be respectable.
The Waterworth Centaur is a vanishingly rare 2 inch f/3.5 lens manufactured by Waterworth of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Optical manufacture began at the Domain on the edge of the city of Hobart during WWII in order to furnish the Australian defence forces (and to an extent, also, other Allied forces) with lenses, prisms and other components vital for military use in targeting equipment, gunsights and for photo reconnaissance camera applications among others. After the war the workforce turned their skills to the production of goods for civilian use, notably projection equipment for educational institutions. A small number of still camera lenses were nevertheless manufactured in Hobart in the Leica 39mm rangefinder thread mount.
The Centaur was available in two different guises, both with the 39mm Leica thread mount: a non-focusing enlarger version made for darkroom printing; and the type used to make the image shown above. This being a focusing and rangefinder coupled version.
During a visit to the University of Tasmania to inspect the items in their Waterworth Collection (a bequest from the late Peter Smith, long a UTAS chemistry faculty member) I was permitted to fit the focusing example of the Centaur in the collection to my own Leica IIIf Red Dial rangefinder and take a few photos of the collection with it.
In the foreground you will see just a few of the different types of still projectors Waterworth manufactured after World War II.
The Centaur fitted readily to the IIIf like any Leica lens made for it, and coupled perfectly to its (well-calibrated) rangefinder from close range to infinity.
I set the camera and lens onto my own Linhof junior tripod and ball head (which was itself formerly owned by Peter Smith before it came into my possession, so there was a brief reunion of these items once owned by him). A short series of images was made by me at different apertures including wide open at f/3.5 with the camera on the tripod, using a cable release to maximise sharpness.
I have added four very similar images made with this very rare lens. Whilst there are a handful of images of a Waterworth Centaur lens locatable by Google Image search, I have not seen any photos actually taken with the lens: let alone taken with one fitted to a screw mount Leica rangefinder, the type of camera the lens was actually designed to be used with. This series might therefore be the only images on the web with a Centaur on film using a Leica rangefinder and have been uploaded for the benefit of those who may like to see some photos created with one.
The exact number of Waterworth Centaurs produced is not definitively known. At least one serial number into the low 300s exists. But whether all serial numbers from 1 were allocated and used is not known. The actual number made may be considerably less, one source suggests perhaps 200-odd? Many of those would have been for enlarger use and not suitable for photography, thus, the amount of surviving Centaurs with rangefinder coupling may, potentially, be tiny. Who knows? UTAS are researching the activities of the annexe.
You may see a photograph of the Centaur lens attached to my Leica at UTAS here:
www.flickr.com/photos/43224475@N08/51087053587/in/datepos...
More information about the wartime activities at the Hobart annexe and the Waterworth optical products which were made after WWII for civilian use may be found at UTAS's own website for Waterworth, here:
Some images of the actual Waterworth Centaur I had the privilege of photographing with (Centaur serial number 171) may be viewed here:
waterworth.omeka.net/items/show/76
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The Housing Works "At Home" musical fundraising series. May 8th, 2009
Shot for
Also: SPIN, MOJO, Village Voice, Time Out NY, Gothamist, BrooklynVegan, Pitchfork Media, Flavorpill, Vanity Fair
Some single leaves, clockwise from top left:
Helios 44-2
Leitz Colorplan 90mm Projector lens MIG
F100mm Macro
Leitz Colorplan 90mm Projector lens MIP
Shot at a local indie theater the other day for a new project I'm working on.
Shot with Canon 5D MK II, the Canon 24-105mm L Series & available light. Edited in Lightroom.
Last night I went up to my roof with an 8mm projector and a bottle of Gold Bond Powder and ended up with what you see above. Not bad for a first try but it was windy as hell and Gold Bond was going every where. I plan on giving it another try on a still night.
(Well, even though it's copper-coated, there is carbon within.)
Composite of a picture I took six years earlier and one from a batch of pictures taken earlier this year that yielded a Macro Mondays contribution.
Found another way to distract myself instead of packing for Bricks Cascade like I should be doing. Folks "of a certain age group" should find this build familiar.
I recently found 1000s of slides from circa 1962-1985. This snapshot makes me realize how much I miss and mourn the disappearance of Kodachrome. This is my firstborn Nathaniel with his cousins at the Skansen open-air museum and park in Stockholm, summer 1984. Shot with a simple Nikon EM with Nikon E-series 50mm/1.8 on Kodachrome 64. Through a slide projector or viewer, properly exposed, Kodachrome comes the closest to 3D as anything I've ever seen out of a 2D camera.
This build is based around a simulator used by train companies for training and assessment of drivers. The build has two sides, with this side showing the dummy cab and the projector screen used by drivers undergoing training and assessment.
Vintage projector lens, I held it away from the camera by hand to focus, too lazy to hook it up with a proper bellows. Nice lens.
Bolex M8 8mm movie Projector made in the 1950's.
Photographed with a Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 camera with Graflex Optar f/4.7 135mm lens. The film is CatLABS X Film 80 developed in Rodinal 1:50.
Airequipt was an American slide projector company. They did not make cameras. So I had thought until running across this palm-sized 35mm.
When I saw this camera online with "Airequipt" badged on top I thought it must have just been a sticker placed there for fun or to hide a scratch or ding. Not so. Turns out this is really a camera made by Japanese maker Taisei Koki - Welmy. This example was produced for export for Airequipt as well as Kalimar. In post-WWII Japan there were hundreds of cottage-industry camera makers, many of whom survived only through white-labeling as is the case with this example.
There is no model name anywhere, just "Airequipt", They must have given up selling cameras after this offering. It's a very simple unit with traditional controls.The lens is a 45mm f/3.5 Taikor. Leaf shutter settings include "B", 25th, 50th, 100th and 200th (a bit antiquated speed settings for that time). Build quality is good but not particularly outstanding. Everything works. It came in the original leather case, which will continue to dissolve in a plastic tub dedicated to housing all the other cowhide covers from similar vintage instruments.