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Old camera i recently got my hands on. not sure if it works. i got a old video recorder from around the same date.
Look what I found! The matchbox fits perfectly!
This Vest Pocket Kodak came in by mail yesterday, isn't it fantastic? I'll show more of it later.
Introduced in 1912, the original Kodak "Vest Pocket" Camera represented "breakthrough technology" for its day. The pocket-sized folding camera looked almost exactly like the larger folding Kodaks but used a new small film size. The little rolls of film yielded eight 1 5/8" X 2 1/2" exposures each -- large enough to make contact prints but small enough to keep the camera palm-sized. The so-called "miniature" camera first retailed at $6.00 -- far less than the larger folding models -- and became popular with soldiers during World War One.
The "Vest Pocket Model B" which Mallory used on Everest, was introduced in 1924, and included several new design features. One of the most significant was the "autographic" window on the camera back. By sliding a small door open, the photographer was able to inscribe some information about the picture through the backing paper, directly onto the film -- a distant ancestor to today's "day / date" modes in some electronic cameras.
Well that is fantastic! A small autographic window on the back to write down some information of the taken picture!
Vik and I bwtween us made a little pile of pinhole cameras using the instructions for making a pinhole camera from a matchbox from alspix
why? Because Sunday 30th April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, and we want to play. We're lucky that there's an event taking palce in Redcliffe Caves tomorrow where we're going to learn to make pinhole cameras from beercans, and use the caves as a darkroom to process them. It looks like a great event - details here, and details of events that may be taking place in your city here
So no idea if these will work - I am hopelessly inept at fiddly things - we'll see how they go..... oh, and I've cleverly managed to take a pic with the pinhole side on the bottom - stupid me! I'll do another tomorrow
Cooper enjoyed sprinting around in the snow on Christmas day. He wore his collar camera to snap a few holiday photos.
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The camera that started it all. This one's from the 1840's and part of the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
I like this one much betterrr. I bought this old film Minolta today in a charity shop, a whole £8. Bugger knows if it works or not, but i have a terrible obsession with old cameras. If i had the room and money, i'd buy tons. Maybe i'll take pictures of them all (:
Anyways, I put the camera on top of all my revision crap to represent the fact i would much rather take photos than revise boring old english. Ive got a week till my exam, and i've barely done any revision. eeek. hello fail.
I love old cameras♥
Textures:
Between 1985 - 2002, and for a very brief period during 2005, The Canon A1 was the camera I used to take my pictures with using a 35-70mm zoom lens, which was very handy for transport photography. This isn't the actual A1, but it is identical and was used as a spare. I still have the original one, which is in better condition than this example; it's just that I can't remember where I've put the other A1!
I almost exclusively used slide film in the A1, mainly Agfa 100ASA in the late '80s and early '90s, moving on to the much better quality Fuji slide film from the early '90s onwards. The Canon A1 was a great camera to use and a quality SLR, but sadly it's become a museum piece in the digital age; with examples barely making £20 on ebay.
If your gonna toss it...
Minor crop and sharpen, otherwise SOOC. 3 light sources: white LED array, 7 color neon sign, and a color-phasing LED strip.
Not a polaroid, but I thought it was appropriate for a polaroid group.
I didn't really realize how many I had until I set them all out. I also have a couple of 600's and I have a 680 on its way.
SX-70 Accessory Kit
SX-70 model 3 (two of them)
SX-70 Alpha 1
SX-70 Sonar onestep
SX-70 Autofocus, Model 2 SE
ProPack
Square Square Shooter and Square Shooter 2 (two #2's)
Polaroid sx-70 one step
Land Camera 104
Land Camera 800
Spectra QPS
Spectra 1200FF
Sun 600
The Yashica Mat 124 is probably the best known of Japanese TLRs. Largely a copy of the Rolleiflex Automats, it does not match the Rollei in ruggedness and build quality but its built-in coupled light meter is a better job than anything Rollei had ever done.
Gave a talk to Washington Apple Pi this morning and received the greatest thank-you gift ever: a Holga 120 rollfilm camera.
It is made of plastic and has many imperfections and no technical superlatives of any kind. But it's become a cult camera because -- like so many of us -- it has a winning personality and thus people tend to reclassify its faults as mere Quirks.
Quirks of the Chinese-made Holga include: a cheap, distortive lens that vignettes the corners of the frame and a poorly-designed back that leaks light. This kit actually includes a roll of electrical tape. The instructions urge you to tape down the two AA batteries that power the flash and to strap the camera with it to tighten the back a little better.
The group presented it to me after my talk and I couldn't have been more delighted. I took a seat while the rest of the meeting continued. Thennnn...
...I noticed that film was included in the box.
I am a weak man. So yes, I unwrapped the cellophane and tried to assemble the camera and load it up as quietly as I could. There was no way I was leaving there without Holga shots of the group.
Here, let me show them to you:
Oh.
It's on film.
I have to send it out and wait for the prints to come back.
Well, we can look forward to that, then.
Apple Pi went to the top of the range and bought me the Holga 120CFN, with built-in flash AND integrated color flash filters. Twist the knob up at the top and and Red, Blue, and Yellow filters rotate into position to color the flash light.
(I have just had a discussion with the friend I'm staying with -- a scientist -- about whether this thingy is Filtering the light or Tinting it.)
(I have some really awesome friends.)
I'm going to have a lot of fun with this (for the next 12 exposures, at least). The whole point of the Holga is to return to the days of fun, snapshot photography. If there's no chance of producing a clear image free from defects, you can dispense with the Lust For Perfection and just take some damned pictures.
Check out the manual right here.
Damn, I've spent almost an hour engrossed in the Holga FAQ, and a set of instructions for how to use the Holga lens on a DSLR, and a Holga group on Flickr, and...
...Okay I'm clearly going to be up for a while. You kids go play.
My favorite camera. For those that do not know, the SX70 is a folding SLR, yes SLR, that was Polaroid's first integral instant film camera. It focuses down to 10 inches, and produces beautiful instant photographs. The camera has been described as a miracle, and I tend to agree.
This particular camera was bought new by my late Grandfather back in the early 1970s, and I inherited it a while back. Unfortunately Polaroid has stopped production of its native film, Time-Zero. I plan on using it with 600 film though.
The Voigtlander Bessa that I've cleaned up and pressed back into action. It is certainly not a practical camera (the top shutter speed is only 1/75) but it is still capable of producing high-quality results in undemanding situations.
With a 6cm x 9cm negative and a focal length of 105mm, a tripod is absolutely essential in order to get sharp images at the available shutter speeds (T, B. 1/25 and 1/75).
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Found my new favorite camera shop in Shibuya. Tons of antique Russian and Japanese cameras and the full array of Lomo series cameras.
100Strangers #71. I was taking a picture of graffiti on a cement cube when I realized that there was somebody on the other side taking a picture of graffiti that was on the inside. A kindred spirit! I called out to him, and then realized that he was using a film camera. A Hasselblad no less! So we launched into a discussion of film vs digital photography. It also turned out that he had retired from UCB about the same time that I did, and took up his interest in photography again. He works mainly in B&W, hence his B&W portrait here.
"All that in this delightful garden grows,
Should happy be, and have immortal bliss." Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene, 1590
America - what a country. Cameras grow like watermelons. They throw out some camera seeds, sprinkle with water, and cameras sprout from the earth. Everyone in America has so many cameras they just leave them lying around on the ground.
This is at the 2007 MLB Baseball All-Star Game Home Run Derby at AT&T Ballpark in San Francisco
Classic camera collection (Top -> Bottom)
1. Zeiss Ikon Taxona
2. Minolta 7Hi(Digital)
3. Fujifilm Instax Mini
4. Olympus Pen EE-3
5. Voigtlander Vito-B
6. Zeiss Ikon Contessa
7. Petri Color 35
8. Zeiss Ikon Tenax I
9. Contax RTS II
10. Voigtlander Vito IIa
11. Contax D
12. Praktica FX
13. Pentacon F