Rick A
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1901 Century 11x14 field camera.
Kodak No 2 Cartridge Hawk-Eye from 1924/1925
Uses 120 film and has two aperture settings via a slider
I think it actually takes better photos than my other vintage cameras
Somewhere... there is a long-deceased design engineer and a production staff that just read your post and looked at your pictures. They are at this very moment grinning from ear-to-ear. Not because you still own their camera. But because 90 years later you are still using it to produce beautiful photographs.
Too often in today's modern narcissistic world order people assume that every object that doesn't begin with a lowercase 'i' and require an IP address can't possibly be worth anything whatsoever, and that those who created the stuff are themselves worthy of little more than our collective condescension.
But the engineers of their day weren't a bunch of ignorant and unsophisticated rubes. They were just as smart and creative and proud of their creations, if not more so, as the iEngineers of today.
And the highest compliment that can be paid to them all these years later is to simply pick up one of those creations, continue using it for its designed and intended purpose, and then quietly tip one's hat in their direction. Which is exactly what you have done by posting your results here.
Very nice photographs, those...
Ken
Somewhere... there is a long-deceased design engineer and a production staff that just read your post and looked at your pictures. They are at this very moment grinning from ear-to-ear. Not because you still own their camera. But because 90 years later you are still using it to produce beautiful photographs.
Too often in today's modern narcissistic world order people assume that every object that doesn't begin with a lowercase 'i' and require an IP address can't possibly be worth anything whatsoever, and that those who created the stuff are themselves worthy of little more than our collective condescension.
But the engineers of their day weren't a bunch of ignorant and unsophisticated rubes. They were just as smart and creative and proud of their creations, if not more so, as the iEngineers of today.
And the highest compliment that can be paid to them all these years later is to simply pick up one of those creations, continue using it for its designed and intended purpose, and then quietly tip one's hat in their direction. Which is exactly what you have done by posting your results here.
Very nice photographs, those...
Ken
Somewhere... there is a long-deceased design engineer and a production staff that just read your post and looked at your pictures. They are at this very moment grinning from ear-to-ear. Not because you still own their camera. But because 90 years later you are still using it to produce beautiful photographs.
Too often in today's modern narcissistic world order people assume that every object that doesn't begin with a lowercase 'i' and require an IP address can't possibly be worth anything whatsoever, and that those who created the stuff are themselves worthy of little more than our collective condescension.
But the engineers of their day weren't a bunch of ignorant and unsophisticated rubes. They were just as smart and creative and proud of their creations, if not more so, as the iEngineers of today.
And the highest compliment that can be paid to them all these years later is to simply pick up one of those creations, continue using it for its designed and intended purpose, and then quietly tip one's hat in their direction. Which is exactly what you have done by posting your results here.
Very nice photographs, those...
Ken
I finally got around to making some images of the camera in decent light. This would be the oldest that I have, which is still functional.
Sands & Hunter Exhibition 5x4, circa 1882
3 Plate holders, matching serial/model numbers to camera
R.D. Gray Periscope No. 6 lens
Absolutely. That camera was meant to be a low cost 'point and shoot' for those without a lot of cash to burn on photography. It's easy to to think that items 'way back then' were primitive crap, but planes were in the air by the 20s. The main difference between that and a smart phone camera of today is the smart phone is more convenient and more portable, but when talking about the quality of the images, the whole point of a camera, the differences narrow.
were a bunch of ignorant and unsophisticated rubes.
just as smart and creative and proud of their creations
holy moly ...
its a NADAR !
I had noticed that they weren't using it anymore, so I thought I would.I'm not really sure if most folks are familiar with Nadar & Paul Nadar (fils) and the Paris portrait studios. I enjoy reading about the History of Photography.
This particular camera has been a nightmare to photograph properly.
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