AP photog uses box camera on assignment ...

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Nice Thanks for posting.
 

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I found the title a bit confusing. He wasn't using a box camera like the ones Kodak made, but rather a Kamra-e-faoree like he saw in use in Afghanistan. If you're not familiar with these, there are YouTube videos showing them in use. The subject is photographed onto photographic paper, which is then developed in a miniature darkroom in the camera. The photographer then makes a photo of the paper negative, and develops it.
 

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It's a box and it's a camera.
What's not to like?
 

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Amazing - Fascinating - Fun
You may have just given me a new project for the next rainy day weekend.
I think it would be a great experience building one and then taking it to the street and taking pictures of people.
I WANT IT!
 

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Yes, I was irritated too.
At least over here one would think of something different when reading "box camera".


Who gave names to all these animals...
 

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I was irritated because the video keeps dropping out. Happens every time it rains.
 
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I think that is the same kind of camera that I very vaguely remember from a trip to Tijuana when I was very young. All of us got our photos taken seated on a donkey (may have been a horse? mule? don't remember) and I remember he used this HUGE camera and I was surprised that it was almost like a Polaroid, as in he gave us the finished prints in only a few minutes.
 

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RalphLambrecht said:
I can't really take him seriously.What is the point?
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For the Love of the Game...
The effectiveness is not always in the simplicity!
How can you take yourself seriously, when you shoot film, while using your favorite analog camera?
Its not the most efficient way to get an image!
You may be a using a classic old manual camera and lenses, with no batteries, all mechanical. Perhaps one converted from post card film to 120 MF. In a small box that's over a hundred years old. Changing the whole perspective of the original concept. Or it could be a more modern large and heavy MF that was manufactured to be used as a static studio camera,that now is taken out to shoot landscapes often without a tripod.
Why would one do such a operation.
Simply for the Love of the Game!
 

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The kamra-e-faoree was described in a similar post on APUG a few years ago.

It's beauty is in its simplicity and straightforward functionality. I love it - it would be fun to make and use because one is so involved in every step of the process.

Besides, other than with a camera that uses Fuji film, there is no other way to give someone a print in a few minutes.
 
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