NightOwl Cat wrote:
Jose, Acrobat seems to not like some features that other PDF creating tools put in. I ran into this with a grievance form I was given, work has Acrobat, I have Foxit at home. No errors in Foxit, but Acrobat didn't like the form.
I highly recommend Foxit.
Laura, thanks for the info. I created the PDF inside MS Publisher.
When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 620 (*edit-127 was wrong) film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 620 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
The brick! Very nice portrait session Jim. That's the same model I sourced from the Staunton camera museum (the guy had a bucket full of them). I did run film through it once and the pics came out okay. I have never really used it seriously. Its somewhere around
James Markus wrote:
When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 127 film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 127 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
James Markus wrote:
When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 127 film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 127 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
I've got a copy of the brick that I picked up at a yard sale for a couple of bucks. It's sitting on a bookcase in my office as decoration. I've never run a roll of film through it, but now I'm thinking I should just to see what I get out of it.
You can actually order a 3D printed L39 adapter for the lens on shapeways.com. From there, you could adapt it to pretty much any camera you choose.
Nice shots of the camera and really interesting story!
Jim - love seeing the old gear eye candy. Keeps the GAS flowing
Samy we need to make another trip to the camera museum and see what you come out of there with next. Or I guess you just open one and we come visit yours
Went to a small circus (Vargas) at the parking lot of the nearby shopping mall. It was a great feel-normal event after the quarantines.
It was just people performing acts, a simple Circus if you will, no lions and elephants, no three rings. Took the 85mm 1.4, used it at 2.0. The 135mm 2.0 or even the 180mm 2.8 would have been better, but the bigger the lens, the more chance of being shut down. . A little cropped.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Went to a small circus (Vargas) at the parking lot of the nearby shopping mall. It was a great feel-normal event after the quarantines.
It was just people performing acts, a simple Circus if you will, no lions and elephants, no three rings. Took the 85mm 1.4, used it at 2.0. The 135mm 2.0 or even the 180mm 2.8 would have been better, but the bigger the lens, the more chance of being shut down. . A little cropped.
James Markus wrote:
When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 127 film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 127 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
GeorgeBo wrote:
Serge and Sar - those night shots look great!
Jim - love seeing the old gear eye candy. Keeps the GAS flowing
Samy we need to make another trip to the camera museum and see what you come out of there with next. Or I guess you just open one and we come visit yours
Gerry,
You must be correct that it was 620, because I didn't have to cut it down - just swapped the reels out. Thanks for pointing that out.
Jim
gyoung143 wrote:
You can swop 120 & 620 film on the respective reels, but 127 is narrower. My first camera was a Brownie but bigger than the 127, it took 120, but many Brownies used 620
James Markus wrote:
Gerry,
You must be correct that it was 620, because I didn't have to cut it down - just swapped the reels out. Thanks for pointing that out.
Jim
Sorry to seem pedantic, but I've done it myself in the past, usually bargain 620 film onto 120, and I have Brownies for all three in the cupboard, from our youth in the family!
