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My wife gave me a little Pentax 110 for Christmas in 1982. I took lots of photos with it until I bought a Canon EOS 600 in 1991. As well as the standard 24mm lens, I have the 18mm and 50mm lenses and the little electronic flash. I don't think one can get the film any more. (Look at the photo and think about that last sentence :)*
So far no one's come up with anything that links the photo to the last statement - look at the top right-hand corner, which camera did I use?
This is the last version of the Exakta Exa series of cameras. Looks compact here, right? It's not. It's a surprisingly big, bulky 35mm SLR camera. No light meter, no batteries required, no hot or cold accessory shoe, no frills at all.
Baby Rolleiflex with big brother Rolleiflex 2.8 Planar
The baby rolleiflex uses 127 roll film which is hard to get these days, still in working order and takes very good images, this camera originally belong to the late Herbert Hughes, a famous and classic Liverpool photographer who famously was not the first photographer to photograph the Beatles, he did not fancy the job so he let his partner Albert Marion do the sitting instead.....the other daft thing he did was let Brian Epstein borrow the negs....never got them back, can you imagine their value now
A photographer in L'aquila was making a reportage on the earthquake of 2009, using an extraordinary camera.
©1950 - S.C.A.P. (Societe de Construction d'Apparelis Photographiques)
Levallois, France
Another example of a very odd styled box camera.
Surprise! pop out waist level finder - just like one you would see typically on a folding bellows style camera. The finder is hidden in a little box marked "SCOPA" - push the tiny button & out pops the finder!
This is my 2nd example of this style box camera. Both imported from France.
Very odd. Very cool!
! يا أول كاميرا ، لكِ في القلبِ ذكرى *
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One of the very first brands of commercially available single-lens reflex cameras. Missed being the first one by mere months. It shot medium format (120) film in 6cm x 6cm square images. Cloth focal plane shutter, speeds from 1/25th to 1/500th (plus Bulb). Interchangeable lenses (I think 40mm screw-thread). Very happy to have found this. Mildly historical in backstory, solidly interesting in design.
excuse the crap shot.. my crappy kit lens and 1600 ISO due to low lighting and I was too lazy to bother lighting these properly.
Jack noticed this 4 X 6 inch sepia photograph on the bottom shelf of an antique shop case. It was mounted in a brown cardboard folder that opens to make a stand up display. The print shows some free silver in the shadows but the appeal of the young person, a boy we thought, proudly showing off a Graflex type camera was immediate. When I looked at the scan I made I changed my identification of the gender of this young person. I think it is a girl. The overalls and cap said boy but the shoes appear to be patent leather Mary Janes. The face could be a girl's.
A study of the props and pose invites me to start to invent a story. The straps of the overalls are extended with string and the cuff shows the telltale line that says they have been hemmed and then let out. Likely they were adapted for a growing child or hand-me-downs. The camera is supported on the right knee while the right foot rests on a cardboard box. Has the studio just received and unpacked a new camera that is being held by the studio owners daughter? The folder and photograph are unmarked so we will never know.
I don't know how rare these guys are, but they're definitely thin on the ground on this side of the Great Water, and this is the first one I've seen up close. It came from the same friend in England who blessed me with the Purma Special and the Zeiss Baby Box.
The Periflex series are really unique cameras: they are the only cameras that provide SLR focusing with Leica Thread Mount lenses, with correct register for infinity focus. How do they do it? The name is a hint: when you cock the shutter, a little periscope descends into the chamber just in front of the film. Viewed through an eyepiece on the back, this presents a magnified image of a tiny groundglass which you focus on, rather like using the separate-window rangefinder in a screw mount Leica. When the shutter is released, the periscope instantly retracts out of the way before the curtain opens. The world would not see a capability like this again until the introduction of the Micro-4/3 lens mount and interchangeable-lens non-SLR digitals a few years ago.
This Periflex is not quite in order, but you could take pictures with it if you had to. I'm in the process of studying up on how these are built in preparation for fixing up this and its companion Periflex 3. I'll let you know how that goes when I've finished with them (might take a while...)
You can see its insides in action here.
I was shooting in London today so stopped in at Camera City Camera repairs store. They have an amazing range of vintage film cameras in stock and Pany the owner was very helpful. I didn't go intending to buy anything but came away with a 1951 Leica Summaron 35mm f3.5 to add to my vintage Leica collection. I already have the Voigtlander Skopar PIi 35mm f2.5 but I like the flare of the older lenses. Full blog post to follow.. :) This photo was taken with the Leica M9 + Leica Summaron 35/3.5
manufactured to Carlo.Beck ;/) to Andy Warhol memory !
camera > Campbell's soup 4x5 curved plane, homemade pinhole, tin, FL 65mm (@ center), F224, 1,56 constant, 0,29mm hole diameter.
bottom cameras for shooting through-the-viewfinder clockwise from top left: Brownie Reflex Synchro; Brownie Hawkeye; Anscoflex; Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5; Graflex 22; Agfa D-6 Cadet; Imperial Reflex; No. 3-A Kodak Jr.; and in the center, Argus Seventy-five
All images made with the Argus Seventy-five except its ownself, shot with the Anscoflex. The Argus was the first and most used. The Imperial Reflex and the Crown are probaly my favorites. Each yields a different result so the choice for the bottom depends on the subject matter.
I also had a Duaflex and loaned it to a coworker who subsequently managed to "misplace" it. And I had a Starflex that I managed to lose.
Leica M2 shown with a Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 lens.
I have written a short post on my first impressions on my blog.
Strobist Info:
Canon 430 EX shot through umbrella camera upper left.
White foam core board for bounce subject right and silver reflector held above the subject.
See my latest blog post for a full description! Packing list - Whats in my bag?
1.Lowepro Vertex 200 AW – great, well-padded camera bag. Feels like it will take anything thrown at it and last forever
2.Circular polariser and 4-stop ND filter in case
3.Sigma 105mm Macro
4.Canon 70-200mm f/4L
5.Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS
6.Sigma 10-20mm
7.Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 OS with lenscoat
8.Cokin z-pro filter holder
9.Canon 430ex speedlight
10.Canon 7D
11.Sigma 1.4x teleconverter
12.Cokin ND grad set (ND2, ND4 and ND8)
13.Cheapo ebay intervalometer
14.Flash diffuser
15.16gb and 32gb CF cards
16.3 batteries
17.Lenspen and cleaning cloth
18.Rocket blower
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The Pax 35 was made by the Yamoto company of Japan. It is a VERY compact fixed-lens 35mm rangefinder. Slowish f/3.5 lens. No doubt the scarcity of raw materials so soon after the war led to thriftiness in design. The camera is strongly based on Leica construction but small enough to fit comfortably onto a child's open palm. An online purchase, this example is non-operative in several ways (not mentioned in the listing) but still quite an interesting little camera to look at and hold.
Moon Eclpyse shooted in Sestri Levante with high sensibility film, Canon EOS 500 camera, 2000mm telescope equivalent focal lenght.
It's a shot with very long exposition, with the telescope set to follow the root of the moon in the sky... not very easy!
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EXPLORE August 24, 2008
Camera. Kodak Film.
Camera Kodak. Film.
Kodak Film Camera.
Kodak Film. Camera.
Kodak. Camera Film.
Kodak Camera. Film.
Film. Kodak Camera.
Film Kodak. Camera.
Any which way you wish to "read" it...
It still tugs at my heart...
I miss my Kodak days...
My film days...
Here's to you, Kodak. Film. Camera!
............*Snap!*Snap!*Snap!*............
(An Olvera Street ad. Vendor announcing they have Kodak Films for cameras. I knew I just had to capture a shot of it. For goodtimes' and the good 'ole days' sake... ) ...
I got my first camera when I was 10 years old. It wasn’t a birthday present, it wasn’t a present at all. It was just that my dad was into photography and somehow I became the “owner” of a camera. My father collected cameras and lenses and sometimes I had to sit and pose for him, it was boring and I remember the lights were hot... and my older brothers were always teasing me. Somewhere there must be lots of photos of me looking grumpy.
Dad had a wooden box with coloured lens filters inside. Each one in its own little cardboard box protected by a tiny square of tissue paper. Occasionally he’d let me play with them, if I was very careful. I liked the orange and blues ones the best. I used to like looking through them and making the world turn a different colour. He also did his own developing... in the bathroom. He made special blockout panels to block the light from the windows. And I can remember watching him position the negatives in the enlarger and exposing the paper, by swiveling a little disk of red plastic at the base of the enlarger. I liked the red glow it made in the room and I liked watching the images come to life in the developing trays suspended precariously over the bath. It was pure magic. But sometimes it got hot in the bathroom and I was stuck there because I wasn’t allowed to open the door.
The year was 1966 when I got my first camera. I know the year because something very significant happened to me that year. It was the real reason I was given the camera, I suppose. My family embarked on a 14-month around the world trip. My dad was a professor of Engineering and he packed up mum and us three kids and took us off on an adventure of a lifetime. I left school in Australia in December 1966 and didn’t return until February 1968. The year of 1967 shaped my life. And it wasn’t an “around the world trip” that you’d picture these days with airports and hotels. The journey began on ship, across endless oceans via the Panama Canal and across the wild Atlantic. For part of the year I attended school in London, while my parents visited countries in Eastern Europe, behind the “Iron Curtain” and I was flown over to Stockholm, unaccompanied, to meet up with my parents for a tour of Northern Europe. I spent part of the year sleeping in a camper van and visiting people I didn't know.
My dad used to run slide nights when we returned home to Australia. I know it sounds boring, but they were so good that people actually used to ask for an invitation, even my teachers, much to my embarrassment at the time. Mum used to serve freshly ground coffee in special individual glass dripolators she’d bought in Brussels. And dad would bring out the Slivovitz he’d been given in (then) Czechoslovakia and serve it beautiful glasses they’d bought there. They would bring out the Gusle, a one-string instrument from somewhere in Eastern Europe and the Samovar from Russia. Our house was full of odd things from strange lands. Dad was a good photographer and he and mum had visited places that most people would only dream of going to, even now. I can still recite the anecdotes from their travels through Russia, as if they were my own.
...I thought I was very sophisticated having my own camera. It had it’s own leather case and strap and I used to have it hanging around my neck like a professional. I knew how to change the film and how to check that it loaded properly on the sprockets and to double check it was transporting properly.
My dad used to call my camera affectionately “the idiot camera”. Because any idiot could take a photo with it, he’d laugh... and I knew he didn’t mean me. It had Agfa’s magic eye technology. When you pressed the shutter lever halfway down a mechanical system set the correct aperture value and speed. A red dot in a viewfinder turned green when the if there was light enough to take a picture. You couldn’t really fail, it always took great pictures and if there wasn’t enough light, you couldn’t take the shot. I thought the red and green lights looked like Cadbury Rowntree’s Fruit Pastels. Strawberry and the Lime.
I don’t know whatever happened to the idiot camera. I just bought this one on Ebay... just to have.
*Postscript for Arcadia.
When I returned to Australia, naturally I was keen to catch up with my friends and teachers. I remember I bounded up to my favourite school teacher in the playground. She looked at me and said ”Hello Alison, I haven't seen you around lately, have you been sick?" It was like a slap in the face. I realised in an instant that although I had seen the world, the preceding year for her had stayed the same. That my absence was so insignificant to her. I had been on a magic carpet ride and for her time had stood still. I learned at an early age that other people's lives are about "them”, not about ”you”. And I also learned to keep my mouth shut about my travels. Some of my friends and even some of my teachers didn't believe that I had been overseas and accused me of lying. Some of my friends thought we were rich and resented me for it. We weren't. We saved for years before we went away and we lived with my Grandparents when we were in England. In Europe we camped and we never ate a restaurant. And it wasn't all fun. I had to walk to school by myself through the snow and sleet, slipping on black icy puddles, and make new friends. My brothers were older, so they made their own fun. At school I was plunged back into the Imperial system, when I had only just begun to master the decimal system in Australia. My parents left me for months at a time with my Grandparents, who were strangers to me.
It seems funny to me now, that my parents were happy to let me traipse off to school in a "foreign" country at the age of ten, when they weren't even living on the same land mass at the time. My parents sent my brothers off to Europe by themselves, with a map and bundle of cash. They were 15 and 17 at the time. Before the days of mobile phones and skype, but somehow they found their way around and returned home. We all grew up that year, it was the best year of my education.
I've recently been obsessed with painting my nails pink.
Ever since I watched some TV special about Nicki Minaj.
Okay bye.
In addition to the four girls with cameras I am also adding this smiling cat wearing a big, blue bow and holding a camera because I especially like it.
Happy Valentine's Day!
TAG YOU! Post a picture of your camera(s)
clockwise from top:
Canon Rebel T3
Diana F+
Lomography Fisheye
Tito (R.I.P.) Film Canon AT-1
Dad's old Nikon Film.
My sister finally decided to take my old camera and learn how to use it. I gave her a few lessons, like on light, composition etc, thinking how skilled I am now.
Meanwhile I made a basic composition mistake on my picture lol. I am bit sorry I cut her legs right in the knees, but I still like it enough to make this a picture of a day.
There is still plenty of room to improve when it comes to my photography, but that's what project 365 was made for, right?
Any tips or tricks? What are your most common mistakes?
A miniature 35mm film camera manufactured in Switzerland is concealed in this modified tobacco pouch. A spring-wound mechanism advances the film between exposures.
For more information on CIA history and this artifact please visit www.cia.gov
This is a simple box camera, manufactured in France c1947. The GAP was made in several versions, this example being for 6x9cm exposures on 120 rollfilm, and with an octagonal faceplate.
The name GAP comes from the initials of the maker, George Paris.
This Expo Watch Camera was introduced in 1905. It was designed to look like a pocket watch. The "winding stem" is the lens. A reflex finder is slipped over the winding stem. The daylight loading cartridge produced twenty five 5/8 x 7/8 inch exposures.
I love to take photos of people. However, I sometimes have to overcome a little hesitation, not wanting to invade other people's privacy. Especially with regard to street photography. Press conferences, other media events or photo shoots are something else of course. More=better...
This hesitation at times holds me back to make the desired creative leap in the heat of the moment. So, I'm always impressed by the shots of a highly regarded and good Flickr contact like John Phillips. His photos always capture the right moment, or so I believe...
But I found the solution... being this little gem. It's no bigger than a small box of matches and I only need a small buttonhole to carry it.
The only problem is, this covert button camera is not my property. It's on display at the Stasimuseum "Haus 1". In this museum you can see gadgets to eavesdrop on people, like a car door with microphones and infrared flash built in, or see an oil tank with a hidden camera inside. Who knows how many people this button camera helped to imprison...
Funny thing is, it's allowed to take photos in the "Haus 1" (after having paid a 1 euro extra, but you get a really nice and original souvenir...). Nonetheless, when I took out my 5DmrkII the personnel became very suspicious of me. Thinking that I was a professional photographer trying to invade their 'economic privacy' with regard to the postcard sales at the museum's shop. Boy, did I feel lucky...
P.s.: does anyone know a laboratory that does 21mil films ;-)