Vintage Film Cameras: Photography Showcase

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Very true but a Hasselblad 500cm is my go to camera with a Pentax 67 regularly making its way into rotation. I enjoy heavy cameras and how slow they are 😀
And it’s not slow- it’s deliberate. Working slowly and methodically brings a level of “focus” and intent to imaging that fast actions doesn’t - very different kind of work. When I would return from a 2 months trip and was asked how many “pictures” did you take”, I would respond “ I took about 300 images” next question was “well, How many out of those are you going to keep?” To which I would respond “300”. If I took the time to set up the view camera, scout my location and know when the sun was where it needed to be, fill ligjt as I needed, and was doing interior work as well- every shot was a keeper. The work went in at the front end. Slow and methodical.
 
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Very true but a Hasselblad 500cm is my go to camera with a Pentax 67 regularly making its way into rotation. I enjoy heavy cameras and how slow they are 😀
Oh, and a Rolex is a perfect compliment to a Hassy, a Grand Seiko to a Pentax 6x7, and if you ever graduate up to Linhof (my favorite brand), Speedmaster for long exposures.
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Lady in Cambridge, Massachusetts just passed away. Elsa Dorfman did large format portrait photography.

Oh my...

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she was more than just a large format portrait photographer...she was shooting with the Polaroid 20x24 camera, probably the most complicated 20x24 camera ever built in the world, a state of the art . the largest instant camera in existence.
 
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replica of the Brooklyn bridge shot with a 12x20" Folmer Schwing banquet camera. B&W print is approx 5 feet long
 
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late 50s Nikon (S3 + Zeiss planar 35)
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plus 2010s Nikon (D800 + 60 AFD Macro) equals :



(3rd one is taken with a 50 actually)
The D800 works well as as film scanner... I'll have to refine my workflow; this is my first try.
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late 50s Nikon (S3 + Zeiss planar 35)
dsc_7541-jpeg.1070016

plus 2010s Nikon (D800 + 60 AFD Macro) equals :



(3rd one is taken with a 50 actually)
The D800 works well as as film scanner... I'll have to refine my workflow; this is my first try.
Lovey looking images- great contrast! Are you processing yourself, and if so- what chem/process?
 
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Lovey looking images- great contrast! Are you processing yourself, and if so- what chem/process?

Thanks! Usually, yes (HP5 + LC29) but I don't have access to my usual shared darkroom because of covid restrictions, so I had this film developed downtown.

Not too difficult to have contrast with HP5, and the D800 may even have more dynamic than the film. Impressive combo.
 
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My camera kit consisted of a Retina IIIS and a Retina Reflex S. Shared the same lenses. When George Mrus died, I sold the entire kit (and I had ALL of the Schneider lenses) and bought the Cosina/Voigtlaender Bessa LTM body. In retrospect, perhaps not the smartest move.

I also had an Olympus XA and a Pacemaker Speed Graphic, and a couple old Soviet LTM cameras as well.
 
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Thanks! Usually, yes (HP5 + LC29) but I don't have access to my usual shared darkroom because of covid restrictions, so I had this film developed downtown.

Not too difficult to have contrast with HP5, and the D800 may even have more dynamic than the film. Impressive combo.
Changing tent and a daylight tank- you're back in business in your kitchen sink- the way I did it back in college. PM me if you need a shopping list.
 
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This is the perfect thread for me haha. The most modern camera I own is my phone. Outside of that I have my daily user Hasselblad 500cm, Leica M2, Leica MDa, Rollei 35, Canon P, and FujiFilm Klasse... among so many others.

Yashica D


Hasselblad 500CM with varying lenses


Rollei 35

Leica M2


Leica MDa
Love “Angel’s Landing” and Zion NP.
 
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The wonderful Speed Graflex 4x5. The photo is of Seattle’s “Gum Wall” many years before it was power washed and started over. The 4x5 inch format using asa/iso 50, if my math is correct, is equivalent to about 375 megapixels. This was taken at about 20 feet and if you look closely at you original you’d be able to pick out a fruit fly.
 
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Found my Nikon FM I had as a kid as I was helping my parents clean out for their move, still had a roll of black and white film . Just ordered a couple of rolls of color film and some lens wipes. Down another rabbit hole I go 😁
 
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Here are a few more from other cameras (pardon the compression. These are screenshots from my instagram. Don't want to pull out the hard drive).

Bronica ETRSi




Canon AT-1

(above last two were experimental- expired film pushed 2 stops)



Hasselblad 500CM




Rollei 2.8f




And this for fun
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Here are a few more from other cameras (pardon the compression. These are screenshots from my instagram. Don't want to pull out the hard drive).

Bronica ETRSi




Canon AT-1

(above last two were experimental- expired film pushed 2 stops)



Hasselblad 500CM




Rollei 2.8f




And this for fun
Great pictures, you got skills!
 
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Great pictures, you got skills!
Thank you, I really appreciate that 😀
 
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September 1974... a series of 10 photographs shows cosmonaut Alexei Leonov filming buildings at the mall in Washington D.C. prior to the delegation's visit to President Gerald Ford and Arlington National Cemetary
Camera looks like a Bolex Pallard H16
(Photo: NASA)
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