Bought an old camera today Kit

Found it in a charity shop and paid a fiver. Immaculate condition in the original box!!
This is the beauty.....from 1957!
I'm going to buy some 120 medium format roll film for it and take it to my mate who still has a dark room to see what I get.
I cut my teeth setting aperture, focus and shutter speed manually from a light meter so it will be fun to do it again. What is incredible is that the fastest shutter speed on the cunt is a 50th of a second!...Mind you it has f32 on it to work with!

I've got an old camera of my dads here.

Can't put it on here, got no webcam or cameraphone.

It's an old Vest Pocket Kodak - ball bearing shutter (whatever that means) got number 15288 going round the lens.

Loads of dates of patents on it, the largest print is patented in Canada 1916.

One of these?

2nd from the left

No comments Kit?

Mad Tony wrote:No comments Kit?

did not see the thread till you bumped it

when I was in bristol cameras buying and EOS 7D last month a guy come in and bought all their 120/220 film.

I reckon it wont be around for long, the film I mean

Kit wrote:

Mad Tony wrote:No comments Kit?

did not see the thread till you bumped it

when I was in bristol cameras buying and EOS 7D last month a guy come in and bought all their 120/220 film.

I reckon it wont be around for long, the film I mean

It's slowly all vanishing but you can get it on ebay still

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=120+roll+film&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Just to add from the OP

I still use a light meter

modern digital slrs are like using slide film with the latitude you get, even with RAW

You cannot allow a computer to take control.

Kit wrote:Just to add from the OP

I still use a light meter

modern digital slrs are like using slide film with the latitude you get, even with RAW

You cannot allow a computer to take control.

Tell you what mate....my digital SLR is excellent and there can be no going back from digital but I so miss burning roll after roll of reversal film on my old Canon AE1, then collecting the slides to see how they'd come out. I especially miss seeing the pics in all their glory on my huge projector screen.

Maybe he was just thinking it would go up in price nobby?

TBH I can see what film has, and i can spot film over digital any day.

But, digital does have more + than - in my opinion.

I get great pictures with ISO at 64000 with my new one, limited noise.

I do have an EOS 1n still though for 35mm film, may use it sometime.

By the way Kit....I have quite a few pics at picturesofengland.com now.

http://www.picturesofengland.com/user/tonyq

Mad Tony wrote:

Kit wrote:Just to add from the OP

I still use a light meter

modern digital slrs are like using slide film with the latitude you get, even with RAW

You cannot allow a computer to take control.

Tell you what mate....my digital SLR is excellent and there can be no going back from digital but I so miss burning roll after roll of reversal film on my old Canon AE1, then collecting the slides to see how they'd come out. I especially miss seeing the pics in all their glory on my huge projector screen.

yeah i had an AE1 for a bit, but I do not miss 15 shots on a 120 roll with a bronica , fuck that shit lol, can get 700 photos on a card now

Mad Tony wrote:By the way Kit....I have quite a few pics at picturesofengland.com now.

http://www.picturesofengland.com/user/tonyq

quick scan, all look good, always said you had an eye nobby

Mad Tony wrote:

Kit wrote:

Mad Tony wrote:No comments Kit?

did not see the thread till you bumped it

when I was in bristol cameras buying and EOS 7D last month a guy come in and bought all their 120/220 film.

I reckon it wont be around for long, the film I mean

It's slowly all vanishing but you can get it on ebay still

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=120+roll+film&_sacat=See-All-Categories

we always used to use fuji velvia, 5 fucking stop latitude , amazing.

Just stick it on a 60th at f8 , let the lab worry about it

If you go here Kit, you can download their free software...it's fun and one of the effects is that you can give any pic a characteristic film cast, including velvia. Very realistic too!

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

I generally think photos without people in are shit, views are for the eyes not for a photo.

Mad Tony wrote:If you go here Kit, you can download their free software...it's fun and one of the effects is that you can give any pic a characteristic film cast, including velvia. Very realistic too!

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

cool!

Feldy wrote:I generally think photos without people in are shit, views are for the eyes not for a photo.

Totally agree.

Feldy wrote:I generally think photos without people in are shit, views are for the eyes not for a photo.

well, thats bollocks really.

I only take take photos with people in, its all I have ever done.

But, some of the best photos are devoid of people, and they generally take much more skill and time.

bitofatwat wrote:

Looks like a place in France I used to visit....Ramatuelle.

bitofatwat wrote:

superb photo ( as a lamen)

I've improved your pic Boat