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Post by terryfunk on Jun 24, 2011 11:37:56 GMT -5
Phil, keep trying...I can post more examples if you like or send a link where you can download the originals. I've blown some up to 8 x 10. I might do another article on how to blow up photos to certain sizes using the disposable cameras. Others might be having the same problems too.
I think it might be helpful and hopefully generate interest in the site as well. The possibilities w/ disposables are quite interesting.
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Post by terryfunk on Jun 24, 2011 12:30:04 GMT -5
Phil, I've been considering your response...I'll write another article on this. Because of the length of it (details) it might take several parts to do it. Whatcha think?
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Post by terryfunk on Jun 25, 2011 7:40:08 GMT -5
Not many people can say that they have a working camera that has been handed down to them from 3 generations. In that regard I am lucky. In 1913 my Great-grandfather purchased a brand new Kodak No.1-A Autographic Jr. that for almost 100 years, took black and white photos of countless family members. I'd use it today but the film for it (116 roll film) is difficult and expensive to get. Most of the photos this camera took are long gone. It sported a behind-the-shutter 1-element meniscus lens. To this day the ball-bearing shutter still works smoothly and flawlessly. It's an incredible, well built piece of photographic equipment. When my mom married my dad, she received the camera and started shooting photographs with it in 1948. Last Christmas when I was home she gave me a metal box of negatives which contained every negative of every photograph she ever took with every camera she ever had and included this camera with the box of negatives. Included in this box of negatives were several hundred negatives taken with this camera. In 1963 I got the camera bug. At the time the Kodak Autographic had serious light leaks in the bellows and my mom took the camera to a repair shop and had new bellows put on the the camera and she then gave it to me with a a roll of 116 film. The following are photos of the camera and some of the photos it took scanned from the negatives I received last Christmas. The invention of roll film and consequently these cameras revolutionized photography. It meant that many more people could easily take lots of photographs. Today digital photography revolutionized photography in the same way. Nearly everyone that has a smartphone can not only take a lot of photos but they can take 1000s...something unheard of 100 years ago. I can't help but wonder 100 years from now, after those of us who are reading this now are long passed, who will be writing about their first camera? Will it be digital? Will it be film? Or will it be some other technology we have yet to invision? Will they still be able to view the beautiful photos we are taking today and those photos taken in the past? I often wonder... Front View... Rear View... Interior View... Shutter and Viewfinder Detail... The controls on the top are shutter speeds; 1/25th, Bulb, 1/50th, Timed shutter release and 1/100th of a second. The bottom control are American f-stops of 1,2,3 and 4. It has a fixed focus that when the bellows were pulled out clicked into place. The following are some of the photos the camera took in 1948 and then a couple I took in the mid-60s.    The next two photos were scanned from photographs and the quality is not as good as those made from the negatives. Self Portrait, Winter 1963  Photo Of Tornado 1963  Two Generations that owned the camera, my Grandfather holding my dad. There is no known photograph of my Great-grandfather who originally purchased the camera. My father was born in late 1921 so this photo must have been taken around 1922.  |
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Post by emily on Jun 29, 2011 12:41:04 GMT -5
That's SO cool! It's neat that you can use the same camera that your great-grandfather did. It's almost like in the pictures you can see how the world has changed on a more even ground. I love the man in the suit with his car.
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Post by Phil on Jun 29, 2011 13:50:33 GMT -5
I love this story terry, about to post it on the blog.
p.s I wish we had something that old in our family but everythings new.
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Post by brooksykes on Jul 7, 2011 7:04:19 GMT -5
I found myself with some free time while shooting this feature film and decided to make a little stop motion animation, hope you like it   |
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Post by Phil on Jul 9, 2011 11:11:48 GMT -5
Mate thats awesome! really love it! p.s welcome back!
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Post by brooksykes on Jul 19, 2011 23:37:32 GMT -5
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Post by Phil on Jul 21, 2011 21:19:10 GMT -5
Brook!!!!!!!!!!!
your photos are amazing I really love them!
I'm posting them right now!
I mean serriously dude wow.
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Post by brooksykes on Jul 22, 2011 18:41:43 GMT -5
Thanks man means a lot. Here are some more from today's shoot: (short film called Valentines Day) we're shooting on 35mm which is pretty awesome but whats even more awesome is i'm snapping away with B/W film on my film stills camera too  (to clarify these are not those photos).   |
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Post by Phil on Jul 23, 2011 10:27:00 GMT -5
Man, I mean wow, just wow.
their beautifully shot mate, you really do have a great eye for it, and the locations/dressing is amazing, the leg looks scarily real.
When you get your b/w film photos developed make sure you show us!
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Post by Phil on Jul 23, 2011 10:32:03 GMT -5
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Post by brooksykes on Jul 23, 2011 11:51:43 GMT -5
Ah i've done that before on an empty train, i tried to do something symmetrical but i have still to get them developed, i guess i'll have to wait a long time before posting them now  I quite like the last one apart from the advert GRRRR adverts. |
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Post by brooksykes on Jul 24, 2011 5:31:21 GMT -5
These are pictures I took from my flat in London last night, the sunset was amazing.   |
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