Steam Punk cameras

cliveh · May 21, 2014

Do any APUGers use any of the following steam punk cameras and do they work?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...a50QXyo4GAAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=899

ntenny · May 21, 2014

Some of them are just garden-variety folders, and for some reason there's a perfectly ordinary-looking Vito in there as well. I think we forget just how outrageous a folder looks to the "civilian" eye---at this point, most people's idea of "old camera" is a Nikkormat!

That "La Sardina" camera seems to be a current Lomography product. Not bad-looking but an excessively self-conscious design, IMHO.

-NT

snapguy · May 21, 2014

fantasy

Most of those so-called Steampunk cameras on that site are as phony as a $3 bill with Richard Nixon's portrait on it. Whoever jumbled those photos together threw in a few actual old cameras, mostly folders. Some people make outrageous designs and put a webcam inside but most of those viewed are for show, not go.They are mostly a fashion statement. I have nothing against the notion if someone would build a real -- but outrageous -- camera that actually took photos. Might be fun. I have a "new" Kodak 35 (circa 1943) that is butt-ugly and looks pretty steampunk but I have not run any film through it yet.

cliveh · May 21, 2014

It would be interesting to see an Oskar Barnack steam punk design.

bdial · May 21, 2014

Looks like a lot of "Just glue some gears on it...'

[video=youtube_share;TFCuE5rHbPA]http://youtu.be/TFCuE5rHbPA[/video]

AgX · May 21, 2014

I did not came the term "steam punk" across before, and did not see anything like that either.

snapguy · May 21, 2014

other side

I think Oskar B. was on the other side of the coin -- form follows function, not Victorian-era razzle dazzle.

summicron1 · May 22, 2014

cliveh said:
Do any APUGers use any of the following steam punk cameras and do they work?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...a50QXyo4GAAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=899

Those are a bunch of posers and fakes.

you want real steampunk cameras you want wayne martin belger -- he makes them and shoots them, they're part of a whole artistic statement and his work is beyond amazing:

http://boyofblue.com/cameras.html

MSchuler · May 22, 2014

There was an interesting interview with Belger (and Joel Peter Witkin) on the CBC program Ideas:

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/01/09/ideas-from-the-trenches---the-living-dead/#igImgId_83370

Probably not for the faint-of-heart.

Rick A · May 22, 2014

My 16 YO daughter is into steampunk, she's always making or modifying things to add to her persona. She has a couple of Kodak folders that have been worked over in her collection.

Whiteymorange · May 22, 2014

Like many fashion trends, Steampunk seems rather silly to most of us, but it's harmless. I think bdial had it right: glue some gears on it and call it Steampunk. There is, at the heart of it, a sort of arts and crafts mentality to the movement (if it may be called that) that I appreciate.

Terry Christian · May 22, 2014

Well, the trusty Argus C3 is rather steampunky...

cliveh · May 22, 2014

Terry Christian said:
Well, the trusty Argus C3 is rather steampunky...

As is a Voigtlander Prominent.

jp498 · May 22, 2014

I've been told my pre-anniversary speed graphic is pretty steampunk. Not enough victorian bling in my opinion.

I admire actual steampunk / brass era craftsmanship, just not into fiction of that era.

Black Dog · May 22, 2014

Hmmm....wonder if my coffee tin pinhole camera counts as steampunk?...

sly · May 25, 2014

http://www.steveirvine.com/ceramic_cameras.html

Some of Steve Irvine's ceramic pinhole cameras have fun with steam punk bling.

Denverdad · May 26, 2014

I think the Ensign Ful-vue has quite the steam punk vibe.

jp498 · May 26, 2014

Steve better not photograph any marathons with those round cameras with pipes and pressure guages.

Poisson Du Jour · May 26, 2014

For very, very 'out there' and true-to-form steampunk cameras, the intellectual contraptions by 'Boy of Blue' illicit a whole gamut of emotions: shock, horror, amazement, amusement ... but above all, a profound acknowledgement that this guy can turn anything into a working camera (the photographs accompanying them prove that). Those pinhole cameras are outstanding as objets d'art. My favourite is the somewhat ghastly get-up called '3rd Eye'.

http://boyofblue.com/cameras/3rd_eye.html

q_x · May 27, 2014

Almost any pre-1940 camera will look at least partially steampunkish. Props for folders (Kodak Autographic, Moskva 5 or Super Ikontas are my bet here) and LF boxes with black skirt... And Leica (-like) with collapsible lens looks totally like it's owner just stepped out of a Zeppelin's board. There are some brass copies of Leica if you really need to have a brass camera. And, well, we use such cameras, it's the right forum to meet such people...
Out of what I've seen in google results, I've had in my hands Fed 5 and Zenit.

q_x · May 27, 2014

Oh, google "Wayne Martin Belger"...

stawastawa · Nov 23, 2017

Where can Wayne Martin Belger's work be found? the old website boyofblue seems to be no more.
Facebook is active though... and looks like might have a new website soon.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Boy-of-...lger-198083750233658/about/?ref=page_internal

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/board-of-advisors/wayne-martin-belger

this has a decent over view of his cameras: https://www.thephotoargus.com/photographer-showcase-wayne-martin-belger/

He was at medium last year so appears to still be active in his pursuits.
http://mediumsandiego.org/portfolio/wayne-martin-belger/

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