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52 Cameras: Mamiya C33 Professional

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Proceeds go towards bail for #BlackLivesMatter Protesters.

I have no financial interest, I just think what they’re doing through the PTM Foundation, particularly for Indigenous Peoples, is pretty awesome.

More images will be here.

52 Cameras: #193 – Kodak Brownie Reflex 20

Not much to show. The rest of the not-too-destroyed-by-light-leaks images are in the video.

Snowstorm over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Gnarly tree. I think this is respooled film light leaks and not broken plastic.

52 Cameras: #190 – Balda Juwella

Museum Crush article about the camera and the great escape.

Dual format version with Rodenstock lens.

Church in Los Angeles.

A different exposure of fall corn stalks.

Pumpkin with the lights on.

Neighbor’s sheep and goats.

52 Cameras: # 175 — Coronet Ambassador

Nice coverage by the old lens. 6X9cm is a lot of film.

This one is cropped & contrast tweaked – not sure if it was lens flare or a light leak.

I scanned at 4800DPI so it made some huge (20+MB) files. Preview.app on the laptop was really struggling to resize the images. The images displayed while the hamster wheel was working full blast are interesting.

Screen grab of the tree image in the video during resizing

52 Cameras: # 172 — Spartus Full-Vue

Made In Chicago Museum’s article on Spartus, Jack Galter, & the “Chicago Cluster”.

Boys’ Life from Google Books.

Boys’ Life Sep 1953 page 61 “Hobby Hows” section

You talkin’ to me?

You talik’ to ME?!

Nope, just munching.

Photographer’s shadow

At first i thought I took this one but it has a frame number from before the bend in the film.

Landscape with scraggly catalpa tree – we also have a scraggly catalpa tree.

The whole Instax Mini frame

52 Cameras: # 168 — Franka Solida I

Kodak Tri-X 400, develop by 12/2016. I bought it new and it’s been frozen. Developed in HC-110 H (1+63) for 9 minutes at 68F. Scanned on the CanoScan 9000f at 2400DPI. I used both Canon’s software and Vuescan and picked whichever version I liked better. The bird bath in the video is a merged image from both.

It’s only fair — I took a picture of the Franka with the Photura

I think the vignetting is not entirely the camera’s fault. I was pretty close with 400 film and the Vivitar flash I used didn’t actually have the combination of speed and distance on its chart so I kind of winged it and used f/32.

The wedding bouquet after a few weeks

The junk at the top is from over-agitating during development.

Playing with the double exposure

Zoomed in to clean up dust specks, I noticed Jem’s face in the branches (screen grab PNG).

Detail — Jem The Cheshire Cat

52 Cameras: # 149 — Meopta Milona

Cool effects with double exposure and a slow shutter speed.

This was more of a “catch it falling off the post because I don’t have a tripod” kind of deal.

And this was a “Did I wind? I’m pretty sure I wound.” I do love the pastels when Portra is overexposed.

Did I really use film that wasn’t expired? I could be on to something!

I was cleaning the office/workshop while the pigeons ferried buckets of bits to Youtube. Not able to find anything clean, but less dangerous. I discovered I had one unused frame in an Instax Mini. I loaded it by feel into the Milona inside the dark bag, shot it, and then put it back into the Instax for processing. I didn’t get it lined up quite right but not bad.

Zoe on Instax Mini in a 1952 Czech camera.

52 Cameras: # 148 — Kodak Duaflex III

Stuff on the sun porch.

Rain barrel and agave.

Kinda biffed the focus. The raven’s wing was on the ground and I didn’t hold the camera 5 feet above it.

52 Cameras: # 140 — Using the Ansco Readyflash & Spooling 620 Film

Using the Ansco Readyflash Part1: Spooling 620 Film

There are a lot of sites with instructions for paring down 120 spools instead of re-spooling. Give it a whirl if you don’t mind risking a roll. A couple of examples:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-120-Film-in-620-Era-cameras/
https://www.lomography.com/magazine/178618-how-to-modify-120-film-for-a-620-film-camera

One warning if you decide to go this route: The 620 film slot and the corresponding piece in the camera that turns it are smaller. Make sure the adapted roll is smooth on the ends and rotates freely. Otherwise, the bit inside the camera may rotate inside the slot of the film spool and break it. Filing the end of the spool makes it even weaker. See my experience using a 120 spool in a Rover (Diana) camera.