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Jones in LA
··Not in LA anymore.Like many people around the world, I seem to have more time on my hands than I know what to do with as we wait out the COVID-19 Pandemic's initial onslaught. So I thought I'd start up a thread that will, hopefully, keep me and other Forum members with similar interests just a little bit busier.
There are already a few threads among our Forums which feature photos and descriptions of beautiful, and interesting vintage cameras collected by Forum members: all film cameras as best I can gather. I'd like the focus of this thread (no pun intended) to be on the photos taken with vintage cameras, rather than the cameras. Of course, it will always be instructive to show an image or two of the camera used to take a particular photo, and a technical description of the film and lens used, for context. But here, let's let the shots be the show.
Before putting up my first photo, I should say something about how I came into collecting vintage cameras, and making photographs with them. I have had an interest in photography since childhood. I was my Junior High Schools's official photographer for the student newspaper in the late 1960s (I was issued a Polaroid camera that only shot black & white film), and had the same job for my High School's student newspaper as well (I had to use my own camera -- a Canon FTb SLR). Later in life, I became as immersed in the world of digital photography as any photographer naturally would be. Then a few years back I learned about the origin of the photo known as "Bliss", which was the default desktop background image for the Microsoft XP operating system for many years. It turns out it's an unaltered image taken with a medium-format film camera: the Mamiya RZ-67. I made a perfunctory search on EBay for cameras like the RZ-67 and found out that they were relatively cheap and abundant. To make a somewhat long story short, I ended up purchasing my first vintage camera, a predecessor to the RZ-67 called the RB-67 Pro-S. I bought additional lenses and accessories as well. I found a print of an old professional photographers catalogue from the late 1980s and calculated the value of all the RB-67 gear I had accumulated: about $6,000 in 1980s dollars, and I was out only about $400 in present-day dollars. I think that's one of the coolest things about collecting vintage cameras: you can purchase for not much money today (Leica and Rollei cameras excluded), what was state-of-the-art and prohibitively expensive back in the day.
Now, on to the photos. Please post yours!
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Grand Canyon from the South Rim
Camera: Mamiya RB-67 Pro-S
Lens: 50mm wide-angle + No.25 Red filter
Film: Ilford Delta 100
There are already a few threads among our Forums which feature photos and descriptions of beautiful, and interesting vintage cameras collected by Forum members: all film cameras as best I can gather. I'd like the focus of this thread (no pun intended) to be on the photos taken with vintage cameras, rather than the cameras. Of course, it will always be instructive to show an image or two of the camera used to take a particular photo, and a technical description of the film and lens used, for context. But here, let's let the shots be the show.
Before putting up my first photo, I should say something about how I came into collecting vintage cameras, and making photographs with them. I have had an interest in photography since childhood. I was my Junior High Schools's official photographer for the student newspaper in the late 1960s (I was issued a Polaroid camera that only shot black & white film), and had the same job for my High School's student newspaper as well (I had to use my own camera -- a Canon FTb SLR). Later in life, I became as immersed in the world of digital photography as any photographer naturally would be. Then a few years back I learned about the origin of the photo known as "Bliss", which was the default desktop background image for the Microsoft XP operating system for many years. It turns out it's an unaltered image taken with a medium-format film camera: the Mamiya RZ-67. I made a perfunctory search on EBay for cameras like the RZ-67 and found out that they were relatively cheap and abundant. To make a somewhat long story short, I ended up purchasing my first vintage camera, a predecessor to the RZ-67 called the RB-67 Pro-S. I bought additional lenses and accessories as well. I found a print of an old professional photographers catalogue from the late 1980s and calculated the value of all the RB-67 gear I had accumulated: about $6,000 in 1980s dollars, and I was out only about $400 in present-day dollars. I think that's one of the coolest things about collecting vintage cameras: you can purchase for not much money today (Leica and Rollei cameras excluded), what was state-of-the-art and prohibitively expensive back in the day.
Now, on to the photos. Please post yours!
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Grand Canyon from the South Rim
Camera: Mamiya RB-67 Pro-S
Lens: 50mm wide-angle + No.25 Red filter
Film: Ilford Delta 100
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