"Berang" (berang)
09/10/2018 at 17:06 • Filed to: None
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"Berang" (berang)
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Behold: one of the oddest cameras in my collection. I think I finally have it working properly. This is a 1920's single lens reflex, which makes eight huge 6x9cm exposures on a roll of 120 film.
The lens is an f/7.7 and there is no magnifier built in - so focusing takes a bit of back and forth going from blurry - less blurry - blurry again - less blurry (I think?) - more blurry (definitely) - less blurry. Oh yeah, and even at 1/50th of a second the mirror slap is large enough to be detectable on seismographs up to 300 miles away.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Berang
09/10/2018 at 17:26 |
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I love large format photography I use a twin lens reflex a develop my own black and white film
benjrblant
> Berang
09/10/2018 at 18:29 |
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That’s a sweet camera. I’ve shot a fair chunk of 120 but don’t know if I’ve seen one that shoots in that format before.
I might request to be buried with my Hasselblad. I love that thing.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Berang
09/10/2018 at 18:50 |
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The only time I ever used 120 was on a cheap-ass Holga. Thing was so low rent that I don’t think it had a single metal part, nor did it have a light meter . Every photo came out with fuzzy edges because the back leaked light so bad.
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Berang
> benjrblant
09/10/2018 at 19:04 |
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All the old brownies shot 6x9 - in fact 120 didn’t get frame markings for 6x6 (red window advance) until the 1930s. Better lens design made the need for such a huge negative obsolete;
though a few cheap0 cameras still used it into the 1960's, because
it was big enough for album sized contact prints, so nobody would notice the lenses weren’t very good. Very few SLRs were made to shoot the format, all but one that I know of were made pre-WWII.