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This picture machine has been in my dad’s garage for at least 30 years, he can’t remember how it came to him, but now it’s come to me. It’s a 3A Autographic Kodak Special Model B. Kodak’s first rangefinder camera, the “Autographic” means that when Autographic film was used with it, the photographer could open a window in the back of the camera to make notes with a special stylus on the red, lightproof backing paper. This would deteriorate the paper enough that the writing could then be exposed onto the film by a 3-10 second exposure to light. This writing was then visible in the resulting negatives and prints. I believe it’s about a century old, it has a little muck in the lens but the camera is largely in brilliant condition. It takes 122 film, but I think I can probably expose a roll of 120 through it with some fiddling. Failing that, photosensitive paper could catch a negative image to be inverted. Also brilliant discovery: the camera manual.

This picture machine has been in my dad’s garage for at least 30 years, he can’t remember how it came to him, but now it’s come to me.

It’s a 3A Autographic Kodak Special Model B. Kodak’s first rangefinder camera, the “Autographic” means that when Autographic film was used with it, the photographer could open a window in the back of the camera to make notes with a special stylus on the red, lightproof backing paper. This would deteriorate the paper enough that the writing could then be exposed onto the film by a 3-10 second exposure to light. This writing was then visible in the resulting negatives and prints.

I believe it’s about a century old, it has a little muck in the lens but the camera is largely in brilliant condition. It takes 122 film, but I think I can probably expose a roll of 120 through it with some fiddling. Failing that, photosensitive paper could catch a negative image to be inverted.

Also brilliant discovery: the camera manual.

The first time I have wriggled around in my chair with joy at what’s come out of my scanner. Photos from this summer taken with my Diana, more in this Lomography album.

NYE

NYE

Esther Williams and Ben Gage on their wedding day in 1945. Can’t get over some of the awesome photos on Old Loves

Esther Williams and Ben Gage on their wedding day in 1945.

Can’t get over some of the awesome photos on Old Loves

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If you can’t get it fixed in time… Buy another? I picked up a new Diana F+ clone today, Glow. It looks yellow on the lomography site, but it’s actually lime green and white. The flash unit looks a whole lot better on my Edelweiss camera too - because it’s white.  The top of the camera has glow in the dark stars printed on it! Stars! Reminiscent of my tweenage days, when my ceiling was plastered with greenish glow in the dark stars.I’m delighted. You can see the camera in this photo. it’s over to the left. Picture is me experimenting with the viewfinder that goes with the Diana fisheye lens and my cellphone. Fauxfisheye? Fiji tomorrow, I’m just taking my cellphone and my new friend glowie. And a stash of film :)

If you can’t get it fixed in time… Buy another?

I picked up a new Diana F+ clone today, Glow. It looks yellow on the lomography site, but it’s actually lime green and white. The flash unit looks a whole lot better on my Edelweiss camera too - because it’s white. 

The top of the camera has glow in the dark stars printed on it! Stars! Reminiscent of my tweenage days, when my ceiling was plastered with greenish glow in the dark stars.I’m delighted.

You can see the camera in this photo. it’s over to the left. Picture is me experimenting with the viewfinder that goes with the Diana fisheye lens and my cellphone. Fauxfisheye?

Fiji tomorrow, I’m just taking my cellphone and my new friend glowie. And a stash of film :)

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.” - 20th Century photography legend, Henri Cartier-Bresson

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.”

- 20th Century photography legend, Henri Cartier-Bresson

Really sad that I’m going to be in sunny Fiji next week, and both of my little babies are broked. So there will be no fancy lomopictures for me this trip. I’m considering buying a few disposables, or maybe getting a cheap holga or fisheye from one of the shops I’ve seen around Auckland stocking them. Hate the thought of going photo-less. This photo was taken on a Lomography Fisheye No. 2, by girl_anachronism on Fuji 400 film in Fiji.

Really sad that I’m going to be in sunny Fiji next week, and both of my little babies are broked.

So there will be no fancy lomopictures for me this trip. I’m considering buying a few disposables, or maybe getting a cheap holga or fisheye from one of the shops I’ve seen around Auckland stocking them.

Hate the thought of going photo-less.

This photo was taken on a Lomography Fisheye No. 2, by girl_anachronism on Fuji 400 film in Fiji.

Can someone please put this camera in my life?

Can someone please put this camera in my life?

Today at Barcamp I gave this wee presentation. Posting for reference! All photographs other than product shots are my own.

Today at Barcamp I gave this wee presentation. Posting for reference!


All photographs other than product shots are my own.

Sprockety sprockety sprockets.  Didn’t George Jetson make Sprockets? I don’t think they were like this.

Sprockety sprockety sprockets. 

Didn’t George Jetson make Sprockets? I don’t think they were like this.