Kodak Signet 80

[Hatchetman]

Recently, I finally completed my Kodak Signet 80 collection: body, 35mm, 50mm, 90mm lenses along with accessory viewfinder.

This American made camera was made from 1958-62, but was never a big seller. Kodak's attempt to lure the "serious" amateur. It was pretty expensive for what it was.

It is kind of goofy looking and feels a bit chintzy being made of Bakelite. However, the 4-element coated "Ektanar" 50mm f2.8 can take some seriously sharp photos from f4 and smaller. The 35mm f3.5 is a decent performer, the 90mm f4, pretty mediocre.

Here are some examples. The uploading process here definitely takes the image quality down a notch...or two.

 

[gone]

Very sharp indeed. I'm a big Bakelite fan. Wish they still made cameras out of it because it's light and doesn't rust, or need repainting over time.

I understand that downsizing images affects quality on any website, but maybe your images are too small to begin with? When I click on your still life for example, the image doesn't get bigger, it just gets a little blurrier, as if the webpage is struggling to enlarge something that it can't due to size. That's how it's working on my computer anyway. If I hover my mouse over that image it shows it's only 640 x 424. That's awfully small.

 

[Hatchetman]

Try this:
35mm



50mm

 

[Hatchetman]

90mm

 

[summicron1]

I have one of those but have never actually tried film in it. You stuff is quite lovely.

Yeah, weird camera, kind of a hybrid between an Argus and a Kodak of earlier vintage of some sort. Interesting in its way.

I have shot the Kodak stereo camera -- lovely thing.

 

[Hatchetman]

I have one of those but have never actually tried film in it. .

Shoot a roll. If the 50mm disappoints, I'll send you a fresh roll.

 

[summicron1]

what a nice man.

 

[fotch]

The images, which are really nice, enlarge very large on my confuser. Nice work.

 

[Hatchetman]

Thanks fotch. I really have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to digital images and uploading them. The first ones were too small so I just linked up the originals out of the scanner. I don't know what size they are. How big is a pixel?