tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70481186800596966272024-03-05T10:46:37.798-08:00Go Slow PhotoTake a picture why don'tcha, it'll last longer!John Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989272453412242739noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048118680059696627.post-42826957355543669292011-03-30T19:01:00.000-07:002011-03-31T19:47:41.817-07:00Another Jewel A new gift, courtesy of my lovely wife:<br />
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It's a fabulous Kodak Retina IIc from 1954. An absolutely gorgeous fixed-lens rangefinder from the golden age of 35mm RFs.<br />
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And what a lens! Incredibly sharp and contrasty, giving beautiful results.<br />
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For moe about these underappreciated gems, <a href="http://www.dantestella.com/technical/retina.html">see here</a>. This particular sample was found in an antique store in Cambridge. It's clearly a "user", but works flawlessly. It helps that the most delicate bits -- the lens and shutter -- were kept behind the tough steel clamshell.<br />
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The film advance on the bottom took a little getting used to but I can see why this camera was popular with the left-eyed.<br />
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I'll post some pictures soon, but here's a taste:<br />
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The objective was to tour Riverdale Farm and the Toronto Necropolis. I'll let Paul summarize it:<br />
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"The wettest walk in quite a while, combined with large parts of the farm and cemetery being inaccessible because of ice, meant we cut the day very short and headed to the pub!"<br />
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It was wet, cold and miserable. Fortunately, the Vigilant Six-20 suffered no harm from the damp, and delivered great results.<br />
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Musty mildewed wool on the hoof:<br />
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Ah, the romance of rustic animal husbandry! But enough of the lethargic living, what about the indolent dead?<br />
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Still lolling about in the muck, I see. <br />
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It really was treacherous. We had to watch our feet, because much of the Necropolis is on a slant, and it was easy to lose your balance and go skidding downhill on the wet ice.<br />
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Below, the <strike>mourners</strike> photographers seek shelter to console each other, grieving for their shorted-out electronics and frozen fingers:<br />
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Never mind: I was out of film. We gathered our remaining strength to begin a quest for warming beverages!<br />
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... then back out into the wet fog, only to see the dwindling lights of the missed streetcar ...<br />
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First off: a 30-second time exposure from the 30th floor of the Minto Hotel in Ottawa:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Next, a snowy street scene in Toronto. We had lots of the white stuff this winter, and not too much, just enough. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div> The meniscus lens is a funny thing; snappy and sharp in the centre, soft and a bit distored at the periphery. But contrast is good. The tone is from the non-neutral colour of the acetate base of the cheap Chinese film. At least, this is how the scanner is rendering it. Fuji Neopan, whose base is dead-neutral, looks more blue-black.<br />
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Here are some kids doing what kids are supposed to do when it snows in a park with a hill:<br />
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I note simply this: they were not just the only kids in the park, they are the only kids on a toboggan I saw the whole winter. Good thing I had my 70 year old camera to record the proof. Future generations won't believe me!<br />
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Same park, different angle, and cropped square to fit the composition better:<br />
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Another part of the same park: the jungle gym, partly buried.<br />
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What would winter in Toronto be without drivers struggling to find legal parking on snow-filled side streets?<br />
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I took these shots in Ottawa at the end of January. It was so cold the film advance knob jammed and I had to retreat to the warmth of the Capital Tourist office to re-start things. When I got the roll back, I saw that I had gotten a double exposure from the jam:<br />
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The Chateau Laurier and Wellington St:<br />
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My favourite Ottawa Chinese restaurant, closed for good:<br />
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The Sparks Street Zellers. Probably not long for this world either, given the recent purchase by Targets. This camera is cursed: whatever I point it at starts to fade away ...<br />
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One more from Ottawa: skaters on the canal. If it weren't for that ugly 1970s office tower on the left, would you even know this was taken last month?<br />
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The first camera I ever owned was a Polaroid zip, which I got for Christmas in 1973:<br />
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It used the same rigmarole as this "new" Polaroid 420: you took the picture, then pulled on a white tab to get the bigger yellow/black tab, then pulled on <i>that </i>to pull out the picture. Then you waited 30 seconds, and peeled away the paper cover from the front of the print.<br />
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The picture at right has an orange filter; not as dramatic as the red, but it shows the sky better while also brightening up the dingy dark yellow brick.John Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989272453412242739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048118680059696627.post-56705668793079652732011-02-10T19:14:00.000-08:002011-03-15T19:31:41.271-07:00Light Tight Boxes Recently, a <a href="http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/01/around-the-web-on-a-wednesday.html">posting</a> on The Online Photographer mentioned the "<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2279659/">Slow Photography Movement</a>". This isn't about that, at least not intentionally. Rather, this blog is really about Christmas.<br />
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You see, Santa left a couple of neat toys under the tree. <br />
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My wife gave me this beauty: <br />
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It's a Polaroid 420 packfilm camera, produced sometime in the mid-1970s. Yes, you can still get film and batteries for it.<br />
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Then, a couple of days later, my sister gives me this:<br />
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It's a Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20, manufactured between 1940 and 1948. She saw it in an antique store and thought, Hm, I bet John would get a kick out of this. She was right.<br />
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It uses 620 film, which is no longer manufactured, but since 620 is actually 120 film on a narrower spool, it's possible to make 120 film work.<br />
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So far, the new year is slowly looking up.<br />
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<b><i> Coming up next</i></b>: Polaroid = Instant Slow!John Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989272453412242739noreply@blogger.com0