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SLR No.21
CAMERA: Polaroid SLR 680 SE
FILM: Polaroid 600 exp. 9/2009
As a special Guerilla Art Exhibit for Roid Week Fall 2009, I made several "grids" of Polaroids and placed them out in public places with a sign saying "if you like one... Take one." - This one is made up of 9 Polaroid SX-70 prints (SX No.297-305) showing a lovely canal banked by trees with fall foliage. It was placed on a chip-board wall which was boarding up a burned-out and collapsed building in Mons, Belgium. In effect, bringing a "window" into the natural world, directly to the middle of the city.
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A photo tour in Lyon, France, May 22, 2023 with my beloved French SLR Focaflex loaded with a Kodak Professional Ektachrome 100 film.
I did not shoot on reversal color film since at least 30 years. This Kodak Professional 36-exposure Ektachrome 100 was a good occasion for a new trial. I choose as a camera the Focaflex that is an early 60's very special French SLR of a time where color slides were a standard for both professional and amateur photographers.
The film was exposed carefully for the indicated 100 ISO using my Minolta Autometer III fitted with its 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the lighted zone not to bleach the most bright parts of the scene. The Oplar-Color 1:2.8 f=5cm was equipped with a Foca Anti-UV filter and a cylindrical generic shade hood.
Rue Joséphin Soulary, May 22 2023
69004 Lyon, France
After exposure, the film was given to professional local lab for E-6 processing. As an option, the slides were mounted in projection frames by the lab.They then were digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication device and a Minolta Macro Bellows lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The mini-portable LED light RGB61 Neewer source was set to 100% of available power a the color temperature to 4900K. The RAW file obtained were exported to LR and processed to the final JPEG presented. Either the print JPEG with decorating frames or the full size image are given in the dedicated album.
I recovered the joy to discover the magical and incredibly saturated colors directly on the film.
About the camera: this French SLR Focaflex was manufactured likely in 1960 by Optique & Précision de Levallois (OPL), France, in its factory of Châteaudun, Eure.
The Focaflex was released in 1958 and sold to the public from 1959 to 1964 in three different versions (Focaflex Automatic and Focaflex II) , the year where OPL stopped its camera activities. The Focaflex is equipped with a fixed lens OPLAR-COLOR (4 lenses, Tessar type) 1:2.8 f=5 cm with a central shutter. The obvserved image through the lens is not obtained by the use of a regular pentaprism but a simple prism and the use of a 45° semi-transparent mirror and the a second mirror located it the bottom of the camera. This complex solution for a SLR was likely chosen as a sort of demonstrator of the OPL company capability to design very complex camera's...
The Focaflex became "famous" in a sense after the Gérard Oury's movie "Le Corniaud" with André Bourvil and Louis de Funés (1965) where Antoine Maréchal used hardly the Focaflex for his Italy tour and the Cadillac car.
This camera came with its everready case, a shade hood with +1 diopter (possibly of the Genaco brand), and a Foca AUV 42 mm filter, the three accessories in a small leather box (non Foca).
For a description a the optical scheme used in the Focaflex see www.foca-collection.fr/index.html
Same stuff, different day at Lewiston Jct. Slug No.804 is still out front like last Saturday. Fall is starting to show. 9/29/18
Parked SLR 3035 started life as CRI&P No.379, a GP40 without dynamic brakes that went to GO Transit like some of the others.
I love this car so much. For now I can simply dream about it. A friend gifted me this scale model. I had always wanted to make a photo of it; so gave it a try today. This is what turned out. I wanted to avoid getting the miniature look in the photo but could not get enough DOF from my lens. Will give it a try again.
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People by ceramic stall on Art display, Heath Street,
Hampstead, London 1966. Beirette non-SLR
view finder camera.
SOOC I bought this second-hand in the 1990's with the Minolta X300 SLR. I'm not sure why I stopped using it, and can't remember whether it's working or not. It might just have been because I bought a digital camera (non DSLR) in the 00's, although I didn't get back into photography again until a couple of years ago. I found this under the stairs a couple of days ago, as you can see it's covered in dust!
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