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Zeiss Ikon Ikonta – Lost and Found, a 70 Year History – By Conor O’Brien
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Chroma Snapshot mini-review - Fun with a 3D printed large format customized camera - By Oleg (Boris) Dyachenko
I love the look that the images shot with a large format camera give you. My old wooden Tachihara camera had lots of adjustments, leaky bellows and needed to be shot on a tripod only. So I wanted something which is large format but light, simpler, fixed lens and still can be shot handheld. A quick web search returned some 3d printed 4x5s. Most of them looked ridiculous but I also found a Chroma camera website, where the large format cameras looked slick and even sported some elegant carbon fibre details.
Ensign Selfix 820 with One Roll of Fomapan 100 – by Steve Phillips
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Ensign Selfix 820 with One Roll of Fomapan 100 - by Steve Phillips
A year ago, on holiday in Cornwall, I took a box camera with me on a coastal walk, and published the results here. One year on, and a camera or two later, here we go again. This time it was a bit more of a leap into the unknown. The camera in question is an Ensign Selfix 820, from the early 1950s, which I had bought a few weeks before and not had a chance to test. I already owned a Selfix 1620, which had produced some decent images, (sixteen on a roll of 120 film) so I gambled on its big brother. This one gives eight 9cmx6cm shots, which certainly concentrates the mind on getting it right first time. It does come with optional folding frames, to reduce the size to 6×6, but for this trial I went big. It comes with a Ross Xpres 105mm f/3.8 lens, which has a good reputation. It came from the usual auction site, with only the usual “all seems to be working” assurance. When it arrived, I was pleased to see that it did indeed appear to be OK. I could see through everything I was supposed to, and nothing that I […]
Pajtás: A Hungarian Box Camera - by Zsuzsa Szabó
A few years ago I became interested in photography. I was mostly attracted to the old twin-lens reflex cameras, but soon I had to face the fact that my weak eyes cannot focus well enough (my contact lenses are not able to fully correct my vision). I found it frustrating that in order to take a sharp photograph, one would actually have to see what they are photographing – and see it sharply. I did not enjoy guessing the distance; it made photography a stressful experience. That’s when I turned my gaze to the box cameras, and eventually got a Pajtás 6×6 box camera in my hands.
Kodak Brownie Vecta and Following in Fox Talbot’s Footsteps – by Charles Higham
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Kodak Brownie Vecta and Following in Fox Talbot's Footsteps - by Charles Higham
I was recently reading about the industrial designer Sir Kenneth Grange, who over a long career has been involved in the creation of an impressive range of household products in the UK, and beyond the home into post boxes, taxi cabs and train styling. He also was brought in by Kodak to refresh some camera designs such as the Instamatic. One of these was an update to the venerable Brownie series.
