Six old Kodak shutters — all working fine– with various lenses. The whole lot for $40. Condition of them far exceed expectations; I was planning on reselling half to pay for the half I want to keep and use, but now I don’t know!
My latest score
1 September 2010Sara wins Tomato Fest Award!
14 August 2010
My just acquired Speed Graphic + accessories
13 August 2010Now I can be an old-fashioned press photographer!
The camera is in great condition and came with all the original flash equipment, 28 old-school flash bulbs, 14 film holders (most with FOUND FILM in them!), and a kickass cool carrying case. The engineering is fabulous; the mechanisms magical. Love at first sight. I intend to use this as a quasi-field camera (it does 4×5 negatives) for landscapes, urban decay, as well as for portraits and experimentation with lenses not intended for it (such as projection lenses, Petzval lenses, loupes, etc.). It also has a double extension bellows which allows for 1:1 macro shots really close-up!
It does have a bit of a learning curve given all of the flexible settings it has: shutter-mounted and focal plane shutters; rise, tilt, and lateral shift movements; rangefinder, optical viewfinder, wire frame viewer, ground glass AND focal scale focusing, etc. I’ve learned the basics on it within an hour and could go shoot some sheets now, but I want to process the found-film in the holders first–one of the dark slides in one holder had a tab labeled “Wedding”….
The camera is in great condition and came with all the original flash equipment, 28 old-school flash bulbs, 14 film holders (most with FOUND FILM in them!), and a kickass cool carrying case. The engineering is fabulous; the mechanisms magical. Love at first sight. I intend to use this as a quasi-field camera (it does 4×5 negatives) for landscapes, urban decay, as well as for portraits and experimentation with lenses not intended for it (such as projection lenses, Petzval lenses, loupes, etc.). It also has a double extension bellows which allows for 1:1 macro shots really close-up!
It does have a bit of a learning curve given all of the flexible settings it has: shutter-mounted and focal plane shutters; rise, tilt, and lateral shift movements; rangefinder, optical viewfinder, wire frame viewer, ground glass AND focal scale focusing, etc. I’ve learned the basics on it within an hour and could go shoot some sheets now, but I want to process the found-film in the holders first–one of the dark slides in one holder had a tab labeled “Wedding”….
Chosen as Scenic/Rural Area Photo of the Week in Flickr Group
10 August 2010
You can see it among other fabulous shots here: http://goo.gl/04e7
Cold War, 1962
31 July 2010
This is not, of course a missile taking off with me burnng up in the exhaust. Rather, it a full-size Cold War missile that stands in front of the Air Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (a state full of missile and radar sites).
Taken with homemade pinhole (made from empty iPhone 3GS box) and Fuji Acros 100 120 film, developed in Caffenol (8-5-1 in 500ml). There was an ever so slight coffee cast on the underdeveloped negative, but I toned it in Lightroom 3. This is a truly bizarre image. Underexposed/underdeveloped and seemingly fog with the coffee developer. I can’t make out the negative well enough to see what was going on with the flare on the edges — I think it happened while scanning the thin negative. I decided to go with it since it looked like it was blasting off. I applied a graduated orange-yellow mask to the flare from the bottom to about half way up. Originally the flaring reached the top, but I applied a dark mask from the top to about 1/3 down so that the top would look more like distant outer space. Or something like that….
The Lazy JP Ranch from above, with Willitson in the distance
29 July 2010Hello Y’all,
I thought you might like this shot of the Lazy JP. I took it with one of my big old vintage cameras:
http://flic.kr/p/8nNEXt
Gerald
Silos in Sunset
29 July 2010
I AM Giant Vienna Beef Robot!
26 July 2010
What happens when you process 60+ year old nitrate movie film after exposing it in 70 year old camera
25 July 2010
Tonight’s Film Fun
24 July 20108 of my 4x5s done with the Seneca 6b and a roll of 120 Sara shot with her Rollei, hanging in the shower to dry:
