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Gary279 · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject:

Ok, here are some of my cameras...

Two Brownies.

Argus.

SX-70

Two Yashica

And the biggest gun I got is the Graflex with a Sunpak auto 120J.

Pictures of my outboard through the Yashica and Graflex...

OK Dean, Now show me up with your W.O.M.D!!!

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MODmanMax · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:36 pm Post subject:

I like the polaroid SX70.

It was like the first digital, instant.

The first time I saw one of these it was like magic.

Can you still get film?
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ZOZ · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject:

ZOZ · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:51 pm Post subject:

Nice Graflex there Gary! America's greatest camera, first and last! I have a cheap method on making lens boards for this camera and for that matter any view type camera.

I have Graflex I'll show but we'll wait to see what Dean has in his arsenal.

Gary

Gary279 · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

Gary279 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject:

Talking about BIG GUNS!!! I don't think anyone can top this!!!!

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/it...-1000b-lichtbildmaschinengewehr-s

I love German engineering!!!
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MrMamod · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 6:03 pm Post subject:

Gary279 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject:

Dean W · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject:

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Nice cameras, Gary! I have those two Yashicas, as well as the Graflex. I won't show my Graflex. You've seen one,
you've seen 'em all. Mine is a 4x5, and loaned to a friend at the moment.
I have about 50 Yashicamats, really! When I was doing repair full time, I bought every YMat I came across
so I would have parts. Same with Kodak Retinas and Pentax Spotmatics. Those were the cameras I got
in for work the most often, along with a good deal of bottom load Leicas.

This is a little Double Ought Premo box camera. It took one of the smallest roll films, size 00, which was also called
#35 at the time, but again, it is a roll film. 35mm hadn't even been invented yet.

The Double Ought Premo again. It doesn't have any sighting device, like most box cameras. Just two lines
scribed in the top leather covering for you to eyeball down to your subject.

An Agifold, made in England. A really unreliable camera that had some good features. It has an uncoupled rangefinder,
where you get the distance from the top of the camera, then transfer it to the lens focus ring. It also has what is
called an extinction meter, an early form of light metering device which works on the ability of your eye to distinguish
the lightness of a set of numbers when looking through a hole in the back of the camera. Only useful in bright light.

This is a giant Folding #3 Ansco. It takes huge negatives on #7A or 7B roll film, which is the same size as Kodak 118 film.
The negatives are 3 x 4 inches. You get six shots per roll of film.
The front standard on this camera has full swing and rise functions. The camera is still fully functional.

This is a Finetta, a very low end German camera. It's hard to believe that the same people who made Leica
and Rolleiflex cameras could make this thing. What a lump, but it's interesting looking.

This is a No. 2 Folding Cartridge Hawkeye Model C. Takes 120 film. It's not unusual as folding cameras go, but
the way you load it is, kind of...

You fold up the camera and close the front, then pull a catch lever and the whole front of the camera with all the
works (the cartridge) comes completely out of the camera body. Then you put your roll of film into the body, and
finally, re-attach the front works cartridge to the back of the camera. It locks together, and you're ready to go.

Last one for this thread. This is a Premoette No. 1 Jr. It makes large 2.25 x 3.25 inch negs, but doesn't use roll film.

It folds up to a very compact unit. The reason it can make such big negatives and still fold up so small is it uses what
is called "Pack" film. (next pic)

The pack film looks like a thin box, about half as thick as a deck of playing cards. The pack just drops in the back of
the camera, and you close the back. Out of the end of the pack is a small tab of paper. You pull that tab out, it pulls
a piece of flat film into position, then you take your picture. Each time you pull the tab out of that slot, another one
pops up for the next shot.

This is the film pack that goes with the Premoette. I don't want to unwrap it, but it looks kind of like a window frame,
stuffed with film sheets.
The patent date on the Premoette is 1903.
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MrDuck · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject:

Very interesting curious techs

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Gary279 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject:

Awesome Dean! I love large format cameras! The Double Ought Premo, Ansco and the Premoette film pack are very cool!!

I loved taking pictures with my Yashicas!!! My Leica and Hasselblad friends would laugh when I showed up with them.... Until they saw the pictures they took!

Then again, as far as cameras go... An old friend of mine would always say..." It's not the wand, it's the wizard."

Thanks for sharing those with us Dean! I would love to see more!
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