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
gyoung143 wrote:
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
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
Gerry
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 cipboard, from our youth in the family!
