A 4x5 sort of halloween

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Thought I'd share my adventures with a Busch Pressman.

Press photog is an easy costume to put together, and the results were spectacular. I hacked the guts from a Vivitar 283 into an old Graflite flashgun. Shot mostly polaroids and gave them away (people were shocked to see this contraption was functional), but also brought 2 film holders. Focusing via rangefinder. Forgive the questionable scans, the prints are better!

 

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He he nice.
You're a bit close to Freddie Mercury in that first shot!

 

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Should have trick or treated as Wee Gee. AKA Arthur Fellig.

 

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LF=great way to break the ice at a party.

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pgomena said:

LF=great way to break the ice at a party.

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You're not kidding! Everyone wants their photo taken!

 

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Should have trick or treated as Wee Gee. AKA Arthur Fellig.

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+1

 

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Good job

Mike

 

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Viva Polaroid (I mean Fuji)

Great Job ! Really sharp lens. I'm jealous. Imagine ..... instant photos that you don,t have to run through a printer! I've always wondered "Why can't I see them now" .... I'll have to look into this new, instant stuff. lol

 

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charlief64 said:

Great Job ! Really sharp lens. I'm jealous. Imagine ..... instant photos that you don,t have to run through a printer! I've always wondered "Why can't I see them now" .... I'll have to look into this new, instant stuff. lol

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The polaroids aren't half as detailed as those two film shots I posted. Blew those up to 16x20 - razor sharp. Completely out of place for party photos

The first shot on 35mm NPZ isn't quite as nice

 

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Excellent! Propably one of the coolest things to do for Halloween and Carnival. And Louis Mendes gets to do that for a living!

 

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Get those press cameras out there! People need to see that film lives!

 

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This is so damn awesome, enormous props!

 

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Looks like it doesn't do you any harm with the ladies either...

 

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holmburgers said:

Looks like it doesn't do you any harm with the ladies either...

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May have pulled a number or two