Certain cameras

[cliveh]

Do you ever think that certain cameras have better magical properties than others? I often wonder and buy some cameras just to expose a reel of film through them to see what it can reveal. Or am I talking mystical crap?

 

[Brian Legge]

Do you consider ergonomics magical?

 

[cliveh]

Do you consider ergonomics magical?

Perhaps.

 

[Ian Grant]

Some cameras certainly have advantages over others but there's usually a trade off.

Want the smallest lightest most ergonomic plate camera then get a 9x12 Patent Etui @D

One of my 9x12 Patent Euies alongside a Crown Graphic and a 645 Ikonta, when you realise 9x12 is the same length as 5x4 but just a touch narrower the size difference is very significant. At the time both had 135mm f4.5 Tessar lenses.

Ironically it's easier to shoot the Crown Graphic hand held because it has more mass . . . . . . . . .

Ypu can run a roll of film through a [late camera though, unless you have a roll-film back

Ian

 

[removed account4]

yes cliveh!
I totally understand where you are coming from ..
some cameras are magical and somehow make magical images ..

 

[summicron1]

some cameras fit some photographers like a glove and the result is, yes, magic.

It is neither one nor the other, but both.

 

[OptiKen]

Yes, you are talking mystical crap and yes, I believe in magic.
There is an incandescent light bulb that has been burning in a fire house for over a hundred years.
Is it the best light bulb every made?
No....it's magic!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Some cameras are ergonomic. So cameras have special features, historic, or mystic. I have some of those cameras. The rest of my cameras are good at what they do.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

I dunno'...

My early original Nikon F2 loaded with a fresh roll of Kodachrome always felt different than anything else. But only with Kodachrome. I think the smell of the film had something to do with it. It was always a feeling that good things were about to happen. They didn't always happen, of course. But they always felt like they would in anticipation. Maybe being younger had something to do with it?

Does that count?

Ken

 

[BradleyK]

I dunno'...

My early original Nikon F2 loaded with a fresh roll of Kodachrome always felt different than anything else. But only with Kodachrome. I think the smell of the film had something to do with it. It was always a feeling that good things were about to happen. They didn't always happen, of course. But they always felt like they would in anticipation. Maybe being younger had something to do with it?

Does that count?

Ken

+1. A pair of F2ASs, likewise loaded, in my memories.

 

[Shawn Rahman]

My F100 is better ergonomically and has a better meter than my F3. But my F3 has all the magic.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Today I was looking thru a box of cameras that I had bought a few years ago and found a Vokar I. I don't know if this camera would be considered magical but it was certainly ahead of its time. It went on sale in 1946. The first thing that struck me was how heavy it is 876 grams. No aluminum or plastic in this baby. The styling and mechanics are quite superior than anything else of this time period. The founder of the Vokor company once worked for Argus who developed the ugliest camera ever made the lovable "brick" the Argus C3.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Vokar_I

 

[Bill Burk]

Yes, you are talking mystical crap and yes, I believe in magic.
There is an incandescent light bulb that has been burning in a fire house for over a hundred years.
Is it the best light bulb every made?
No....it's magic!

http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

I've got a few Edison bulbs, they are quite charming...

Got my Bessa II at the same antique shop. Quite a magic shop.

 

[Dwayne Martin]

Maybe certain cameras bring out a excitement in you that translates into photographic magic......

 

[Theo Sulphate]

This is a magical camera:

 

[jeffreythree]

I don't know about magical, but I do have some I think are possessed.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Do you ever think that certain cameras have better magical properties than others? I often wonder and buy some cameras just to expose a reel of film through them to see what it can reveal. Or am I talking mystical crap?

A very good play on words!

The standard length of a 35 mm film reel is 1,000 feet (305 m), which runs approximately 11 minutes for sound film (24 frames per second) and slightly longer at silent film speed

Mick.

 

[HiHoSilver]

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Vokar_I

Gerald, Thanks a HANDSOME camera.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Vokar_I

Gerald, Thanks a HANDSOME camera.

You're right - that is a nice looking camera. I wish it had been successful.

 

[jeff.deponte]

I'm a Fuji x100s believer. I didn't coin this phrase, someone called their software "voodoo." I agree. It's a very small, incredible picture making box.

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[Old-N-Feeble]

I believe!!

[video=youtube;-GudGOdtj1w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GudGOdtj1w[/video]

 

[benjiboy]

To me cameras are tools like my hammers saws and planes, I'm not into eastern mysticism or navel gazing.

 

[removed account4]

clive:

there is a movie that came out many years ago called "Lumière et compagnie"
lots of it is on youtube ... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lumier+and+company
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113718/ is the imdb page for it
basically 4o internationally known film directors used the original movie making camera the lumiere brothers
used when they made films.
some of the films were magical, but i am not sure if they were magical because of the experience of the people using the camera
or because of the pixie dust inside the camera and methods used to make the film. i think people who are patient and willing to
LET a camera do its magic get the magic out of their camera. otherwise its like putting a round peg in a square hole ( or visa versa )