OFFICIAL I HAVE A NEW (FILM RELATED) TOY THREAD!!
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It's now reached the stage where people say "I hear you like old cameras". It perhaps wouldn't go down well if replied more honestly and said "it's a little more nuanced than that. I like some old cameras if they will do what I want them to and in a format I enjoy". Hence me ending up with this:
A Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin. In good condition bar one repairable bellows hole. Quite a nice thing really and very solid. A couple of apertures and a focus mechanism which means in period it would certainly be a step up from a box camera.
Once I've plugged the hole I'll run a film through it.
A Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin. In good condition bar one repairable bellows hole. Quite a nice thing really and very solid. A couple of apertures and a focus mechanism which means in period it would certainly be a step up from a box camera.
Once I've plugged the hole I'll run a film through it.
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A few things I acquired recently.
First a Voitlander Vito B.
The good news...
The camera came in an old school vinyl camera bag and with its case, four filters, the proper lens hood, a working Weston Master 2 meter (reflected light readings from which closely match my Sekonic), cable release, tripod with ball and socket head, Zeiss Ikon Ikoblitz flash and some flash bulbs (just need the correct 15V battery)!, the full kit in pristine condition, only degraded by time.
The bad news...
The camera shutter fires but the shutter does not open. Looks like a sticky lubricant situation. Unfortunately the cost of a repair may be prohibitive.
First a Voitlander Vito B.
The good news...
The camera came in an old school vinyl camera bag and with its case, four filters, the proper lens hood, a working Weston Master 2 meter (reflected light readings from which closely match my Sekonic), cable release, tripod with ball and socket head, Zeiss Ikon Ikoblitz flash and some flash bulbs (just need the correct 15V battery)!, the full kit in pristine condition, only degraded by time.
The bad news...
The camera shutter fires but the shutter does not open. Looks like a sticky lubricant situation. Unfortunately the cost of a repair may be prohibitive.
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Second...
An Ilford Envoy medium format 6x6 camera with case. The shutter works fine. It's an interesting camera maybe inspired by the Agfa Clack and bakelite Kodaks like the Brownie 127. The film plane is curved to compensate, in part, for the simple meniscus lens. This work well for the Agfa Clack so I'm looking forward to using the camera. Only one shutter speed, no aperture settings but two, yes two!, focus settings marked 'PULL OUT FOR PLACES' and 'PUSH IN FOR FACES'. I've always wanted to try one of these. The case is rubbish, by the way, the worst ERC ever designed.
An Ilford Envoy medium format 6x6 camera with case. The shutter works fine. It's an interesting camera maybe inspired by the Agfa Clack and bakelite Kodaks like the Brownie 127. The film plane is curved to compensate, in part, for the simple meniscus lens. This work well for the Agfa Clack so I'm looking forward to using the camera. Only one shutter speed, no aperture settings but two, yes two!, focus settings marked 'PULL OUT FOR PLACES' and 'PUSH IN FOR FACES'. I've always wanted to try one of these. The case is rubbish, by the way, the worst ERC ever designed.
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Third...
Read it from cover to cover as soon as I bought it.
Read it from cover to cover as soon as I bought it.
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But there is more...
I visited an antiques centre (more like a warehouse) near Northampton.
There were a few photographic items which caught my eye; a big box of photographs, two magic lantern slide projectors and a couple of Daguerreotypes.
Of the projectors, one was a wreck but the second was in pretty good shape. both only £85 each. I had to pass because the good machine was huge, almost industrial in scale and I've given away all my slides to a local collector. The Daguerreotypes were interesting and a bit expensive but I don't collect early images. There were two of children, one of which I feel certain was post mortem. They were pictures I would like to own, definitely, but I just have to resist the temptation some times. In the end I bought these four pictures.
I like the Queen Victoria look alike in the second picture. The negative of the first photograph seems to have been tampered with to suggest an aura around the woman.
Both the CDV's were made in the North West so I had to have them. The last photograph makes me wonder why the man is wearing a pith helmet, could the picture have been taken somewhere abroad?
I visited an antiques centre (more like a warehouse) near Northampton.
There were a few photographic items which caught my eye; a big box of photographs, two magic lantern slide projectors and a couple of Daguerreotypes.
Of the projectors, one was a wreck but the second was in pretty good shape. both only £85 each. I had to pass because the good machine was huge, almost industrial in scale and I've given away all my slides to a local collector. The Daguerreotypes were interesting and a bit expensive but I don't collect early images. There were two of children, one of which I feel certain was post mortem. They were pictures I would like to own, definitely, but I just have to resist the temptation some times. In the end I bought these four pictures.
I like the Queen Victoria look alike in the second picture. The negative of the first photograph seems to have been tampered with to suggest an aura around the woman.
Both the CDV's were made in the North West so I had to have them. The last photograph makes me wonder why the man is wearing a pith helmet, could the picture have been taken somewhere abroad?
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If you find that it’s a bit bulky, my SnapShot is lighter (around 600g without lens) and offers both standard and technical (15mm rise/fall/shift) lens cones with a full International/Graflok standard spring back.
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Very nice. Hope it is in good working order.
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The crown Graphic is surprisingly ergonomic, the strap being on the left leaves the right hand totally free to do all the fiddling about with the lens apertures and movement adjustments.
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All good so far, very happy, had to rearrange the order of the ground glass and fresnel but all good, the pillock who tightened the ground glass clamps had tightened them to the same torque as a wheel nut.