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Meet Mitchell. Mitch was part of a group of motorcyclists I met in Campbelltown Tasmania. They were heading home after having participated in the annual Toy Run in Hobart.
I'd been taking photos with my 60 year old Ensign camera and he seemed interested. He was happy to pose for a photo when I asked.
It seems he has a camera which looks similar and used to belong to his great grandmother. After a bit of a chat it turns out that the only similarities to his camera and mine were the bellows. His camera was much bigger, he said.
His great grandmother, born in 1892 used a large format camera (no it was not her husbands camera it was hers) and it was passed onto Mitchell after her death at 102 years old. He was very taken with the old camera and vowed he'd never sell it.
This photo was taken with an Ensign Selfix 16-20 Medium format film camera circa 1950's. If you are wondering why the metadata says the photo was taken with a Sony 6300, it's because I took a digital photo of the negative, then inverted it in Photoshop to get the image.
This picture is #3 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Graflex Century Graphic
Graftar 103mm f4.7
1/200 @ f22
ProS 6x7 120 Roll film back
Ilford Delta 400
Developed in Caffenol-C-L semi-stand
Epson V500
Photoshop CS