Selwyn College’s Community Education courses include “Photography and the Darkroom”, so I’ve spent the last five Monday nights there making picture magic. This week, I took along the 3A Autographic Kodak Special. I’ve worked out how the camera functions, and that the shutter speed and aperture settings do seem to work (though I haven’t measured …

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 …

Wellington waterfront, November 2010 Diana Mini, Kodak Gold 200