Fun with film cameras (Image thread)

[ajramirez]

Funny but I don't see the appeal myself ... not really of TLRs either (I can't rid myself of the perception that they are an "old man's camera" ... but a Bronica, a Mamiya or Hassleblad SLR with waist-level 'finder ... that's the business

When I was about 12 or 13 years old, I went to this family outing where a friend of the family, upon learning that I was an avid photographer, handed me a Hasselblad 500C with a 80mm lens and let me shoot most of a 12 exp. roll. I was literally awed by the camera. Fast forward some thirty-odd years to about six months ago, when a friend of mine let me check out his 500cm. All I could think was, "this thing is HEAVY." Lovely camera to use on a tripod; not something I would care to carry around much.

Cheers,

Antonio

[pdh]

20120818-1-2 by _loupe, on Flickr

[ajramirez]

Very, very nice, Paul.

Cheers,

Antonio

[pdh]

thanks Antonio.

[pdh]

Now, a couple from a roll Kodak ColourPlus 200, a film of evil repute, but at a £1 a roll it's hardly worth worrying whether anything comes out or not ... £2.50 to the local minilab to run it through their C41 scratching-and-dust-application machine, and home for a scanning session ... oh and the roll was in my old Olympus mju-1 AF P&S (that'll be a Stylus to anyone not from Yurop, I think)

20120820-1 by _loupe, on Flickr



20120820-2 by _loupe, on Flickr

[pdh]

20120902-4 by _loupe, on Flickr

bessa r2a-Ultron 28/1.9-Delta100-Rodinal 1:100 stand

[pdh]

20120829-1-2 by _loupe, on Flickr

Bessa R2A - Orion-15 28/6-f/8-Tmax 100-CaffenolCM(rs)

[bartjeej]

some nice tree shots! I particularly like the 2nd from your 20-8 series and the first from today (love those lit up leaves in B&W)

[docfox]

One camera, one photographer, two images half a century apart.



My 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 Graflex Super-D built in 1946. I was produced three years earlier and bought this as a $25 used camera in 1962. It was my first "serious" camera (although hardly compact). It has a wonderful 152 mm f/4.5 Kodak Ektar lens (with Torkel Korling's patented automating diaphram stop-down). Wide open it was soft and lovely for portraits - closed to f/32 it became razor sharp. It came with a 12 shot sheet-film magazine (a wood, leather and metal "bagmag"). Later I acquired a daylight-loadable Graflex 23 roll film back, making eight 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 exposures on 120 roll film.



I made this shot of a painter at a 1962 Milford Connecticut Camera Club meeting...



...and this one of my seven pound shadow sunning herself in July of 2012.

[pdh]

very nice docfox, but of course we on serious compacts require the exact type of film, developer chemistry, temperature, agitation regime, stop chemistry, fix chemistry, wash routine and the brand of clothes pin you used to hang it up to dry ...

but otherwise ... very nice indeed. Beautiful light and handling of dof in that 1962 job.