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Asheville, NC. May 2017.
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Another new product shot from this weekend. This is my recently picked up Mamiya 645E. I'm really pumped about this new camera (which conveniently included a variety of lenses) and can't wait to get the first couple rolls developed.
430EX II in 24" softbox camera right, 430EX II in 22" beauty dish camera left, and 580EX II camera mounted and pointed up for fill light.
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A circuit board from a Betamax video recorder stripped down last year. Flash fired from behind board, gelled blue and on the lowest power setting.
I do like this and can see me looking for others electronics to strip down!
Strobist: SB910, 1/128, 24mm and gelled blue. Fired from directly behind board.
Number two of my film camera porn series: My Yashica Mat-124G with the Yashinon 80mm f/3.5 lens. I came across this camera last year when I went to purchase a light meter from a photographer that was retiring and selling off most of his gear. I've had two Mamiya TLR's previously (which were stolen) and this Yashica looked like it had barely had a roll of film put through it. Due to it's age, there was a touch of fungus starting in the taking lens. However, the price was right and I immediately snagged it before anyone else could. It's had a CLA recently and I am very delighted with the results that I get with it. If you look in my set 'Medium Format' you can see shots that I have taken with this camera.
Be sure and check my blog write up on this camera at:
douglasbawdenphotography.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/camera-...
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8
Exposure: 1/50 sec @ f/5.6 ISO 200
Lighting: Canon 430EX off camera right with custom light modifier and fired with Canon ST-E2
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I have wanted to take this picture for ages. I did want to do it differently eg not b+w, selective colour but sadly the state of the pavements is very poor so have had to do this to make it look better. I did select the telephone sign and put it in on phone box no 2 as the glass was smashed ;( I am still pleased with it though and will be coming up on Society 6!
I think these are the last group of phone boxes (as a group) in England, correct me if I am wrong!
STOP PRESS - its the longest row of continuous phoneboxes in England not the last ;)
On February 5, 1979 my aunt traded in a Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic F with a F/1.4 50 mm SMC Takumar lens for this Contax RTS Camera which would be the last SLR camera my aunt would own.
The new Contax RTS camera came with a F/1:1.4 Planar Carl Zeiss 50 mm lens. It was priced $459.50 at Photo World Camera on Franklin Street in Chicago. The store gave her $125.00 for her Honeywell Pentax, which was about 6 or 7 years old.
December 19, 1979 She traded in a 35 mm F/2.0 Pentax SMC Takumar lens on a 28 mm F/2.8 Carl Ziess Distagon lens for use on the Contax.
In the mid 90’s (1996?) I bought the Contax RTS camera and two lenses from my aunt for $200.00 as she was no longer using it due to being too heavy. I bought the Contax Real Time Winder (used) at a camera store that sold new & used camera’s. The winder takes six, AA batteries.
I am puzzled as to why my aunt bought this camera. She was done traveling out of the country in 1977. She retired in 1980. I have yet to find any vacation slides dated after 1979, so far I don’t know what she even took pictures of with this camera.
In the 80’s and 90’s my aunt began using some of those disposable camera’s to take on those Mystery Trips that the Senior Center was organizing. At some point she bought an inexpensive Kodak 35 mm point and shoot camera.
I still use the Contax RTS to this day, to shoot slide film. With the winder on the weight is slightly over three pounds.
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Some history I found on the internet:
Contax RTS is an SLR 35mm film camera, manufactured by Yashica and introduced in 1975.
In the early 1970s, production of Zeiss Ikon cameras had ceased but the desire to build a high-quality system using Zeiss lenses remained.
In 1973 the Contax name was licensed to the Japanese maker Yashica to create a prestigious brand of 35mm cameras and interchangeable lenses in cooperation with the German company. By that time, Yashica was a production giant with considerable electronic camera experience, and was seeking ways to expand sales and improve brand name recognition in the highly competitive 35mm SLR market. Thus began ‘Top Secret Project 130’, a collaboration with Carl Zeiss to produce a new, professional 35mm SLR with an electronically-controlled shutter, bearing the Contax brand name, along with a new line of premium quality lenses. The F. Alexander Porsche Group was hired to complete an ergonomic and styling study of the new camera. The result was the all-new Contax RTS, which appeared at Photokina in 1974, and proved an immediate hit.
The RTS featured an electronically-controlled, horizontal cloth focal plane shutter with speeds of 1 - 1/2000 sec. plus B, interchangeable focus screens, and the ability to accept a number of professional accessories including power winders, professional motor drives, and both infrared and radio-controlled remote releases.
Before being replaced by the RTS II, an interesting variant of the RTS was produced in small quantities: the Contax RTS Fundus (also called Scientific/Medical). This was essentially an RTS with two additional features. Firstly, below the shutter speed dial on the front of the top-plate, a locking button was added that prevented the dial from being accidentally knocked from its X-sync (1/60) and Auto settings. The second change was even more useful: the celebrated electronic shutter release of the RTS was incredibly sensitive with a depression of less than 1mm to activate the shutter but in a laboratory, for example, where you may be wearing gloves, accidental firing of a standard RTS was a problem.
Contax solved this by modifying the top plate further and adding a 2mm guard ring around the shutter release button. Most - but not all - of the RTS Fundus cameras had 'Scientific/Medical' stencilled in white on the base plate. A very small number of these bodies also featured additional mirror-damping.
Since the advent of the RTS, Contax cameras have been made by Yashica in Japan, with lenses made by Carl Zeiss - some in Germany, some in Japan by Yashica (later Kyocera). The cameras were noteworthy for their advanced electronics. The Contax Zeiss T* lenses, in particular, soon gained a reputation for superb optical quality. Since manual-focus Contax and Yashica manual-focus 35mm SLR cameras share the same common bayonet lens mount, their lenses may be used interchangeably.
The success of the RTS led to other Contax cameras (see Contax (Yashica/Kyocera)). In the Contax model range, the most professional and most expensive body would always have a name beginning with RTS.
In 1982 the original RTS was replaced by the Contax RTS II.
In 1991 the RTS II was replaced by the Contax RTS III.
Big and beasty camera, or the Japanese Hassy. I am not a great fan of medium format cameras, but when practically given, they become highly interesting! This Bronica weighs in at 2 kgs with the metered prism and the 80/2,8. I thought the Pentax 67 was heavy, but this one is also porky. Surprisingly, the SQ-A has very few plastic parts. It has all the flexibility of a system camera, even today, thanks to the interchangeable backs, it is possible to use a LEAF Digital back. The camera, itself is a mere cube, everything comes off. For the rest, in all my medium format ignorance, the camera seems well built, the lens seems well coated and will do a roll of film in order to see its quality.
I will be using this camera in week 362 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
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Rehoboth Beach, DE. October 2018.
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Rehoboth Beach, DE. October 2018.
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Project 365: Day 14. I may not be able to post daily, but I am determined to take a pic daily using what I have available to me at the time.
I am going to try and add a component of my own to this 52 project. Each week, I plan to add my picture to Wikipedia. I am trying to find articles will no photo or an outdated photo so that my additions will be relevant. The first one is easy. This is my new camera and the article had no photo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_OM-D_E-M10_Mark_II
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