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Picked this beauty last week In Hershey Pennsylvania. Last made in 1958. Uses 620 film and produces, 8 21/4 by 31/4 negatives per roll.
Kodak Anaston Lens F6.3.
Shutter speeds B, 25, 50, 100, 200
F stops 32, 22, 16, 11, 8, 6.3
You have to cock shutter for each release. The shutter can be released by pushing slide on door or using a cable release. Has tripod mount on bottom
In September 1863, Tsar Alexander II arrived in Helsinki to open the parliament session in his Grand Duchy. He also visited Aurora Karamzin, who was a former waiting-maid of the Empress and the widow of Tsar's close friend Paul Demidov.
Aurora had a nice mansion in Träskända, Espoo, some 20 km from Helsinki. Her people were enthusiastically waiting for the important guest.
But they had a problem. A visit by the Tsar is not an everyday occasion. Any host or hostess would want to impress the important guest. How?
Finland had no great monumental buildings, the palaces were dwarfed by what the emperor had back home in St. Petersburg. The country doesn't have the tallest mountains in the world, nor access to the great seas, and no magnificent rivers. This was nice, wooded country, perhaps one of the neatest parts of the vast Russian empire, but being just neat isn't very impressive. What could we show to the emperor? What could we build, something the emperor surely has not seen before?
We know! Let's build something that is really novel to the Tsar.
The greatest loo in the world!
And here it stands, to this day, on the grounds of Träskända manor. A huge, six-cylinder wooden outhouse, decorated with wood carvings, and ventilated through a tall tower in the center, in the shade of the great oaks that have grown here since Aurora and other manor owners had them planted almost two centuries ago. And it's called The Imperial Outhouse (Keisarillinen Käymälä).
Apparently.
Nicked shamelessly from t'interweb... :)
My latest addition, a Rolleiflex 6006 aka The Beast!
My back and shoulders quiver at the thought of a day out with it!
Polaroid 600SE
Mamiya Sekor 127mm f4.7
1/60 @ f5.6
ProS 6x7 120 Roll film back
Ilford HP5+
Yongnuo Flash YN-560III
Lastolite Ezybox Speed-Lite
Developed in Caffenol-C-L semi-stand
Epson V500
Photoshop CS