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Film cameras

Pedrocut said:
Here is a slide taken by my late uncle in the 60s, but this is with a dedicated slide scanner and with much dirt removed.

I think reproducing them digitally and looking with a tablet is much better than sitting in a dark room with a projector!


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This is a replica sailing ship, The Golden Hind. It has been in Brixham Harbour for very many years. I attended two small fires on it, sadly a monkey and parrot died in one of them. The keel is an old barge. It is a great tourist attraction- kids love it! It did attempt to sail to Dartmouth many years ago but sprung a leak and eventually sank at Dartmouth. Rescued and returned to Brixham where it sill is.
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There is another replica Golden Hinde (note the 'e') which is totally seaworthy and is moored neat Tower Bridge, London.
 
Alan,

I well remember the Brixham replica from certainly pre-1980 and thought then that I wouldn't like to go to sea in it! Shame about the parrot & the monkey - always the innocent that suffer.

Maurice
 
I try to put sticky labels on the various chargers transformers and leads but I've lost the one for the little rechargeable vacuum cleaner!! The others aren't suitable as they are different voltages and inputs. Back to the broom as the title suggests, back to basics!!
rosie.
 
I think you may be right there Eric. I was down there in the late 80's when it was being built and am sure it said that then. I also recall they were building it around an old steel boat hull?
 
Morturn said:
Well there you go, the power of posting, what scanner are you using Pedro?
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I have a plustek opticFilm 8200i.

My late uncle lost his right arm in North Africa but he could still take a good photo. I believe that the camera he was using was a Lieca, which his brother had brought back after the War.
 
This is my first digital camera, bought as part of a deal for a 'Tiny' computer, these cameras were priced at around £1200 at the time.

I've taken it round the world three times and although it's only 1.2 megapixels and the size of a small brick it's done a lot of good photos.

It still works, runs on four AA batteries, if I use Energiser Lithium they will last a year, it eats the ordinary batteries in no time.

The only problem is that it uses Kodak's own format .kdf not .jpg and can be a bit difficult to transfer.
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Yes, I do recall that Kodak did try with the digital format, but used their own format which just did not go down well.
 
My first 'proper' camera (after a box camera) was an Agfa Isolette 3 bought in Hong Kong in 1953 whilst in the RAF, later pawned when I was a bit short of cash ! I believe there was no colour film at the time, just black and white, still have my albums of Singapore and Hong Kong but all black and white pics. Eric
 
Eric, is this what was called a reflex camera or was it twin lens reflex ? you looked down through the top for the viewfinder. You you remember what size film it took?
 
I can't remember too much about it but yes you looked down through the top, it took I think 127 or was it 125 film, prints were tiny, only about 1.5 inches square
I used it quite a lot in the Suez Canal Zone whilst on national service from 53 to 55.
 
Yes, 125 sounds right. The negative may seen small then, but it was large enough to give you a very good quality postcard sized print.
 
Way back in 1973 three of us went on a business trip to Japan and our hosts gave each of us a camera. Through the 1970s 1980s and into the 1990s I took all my photos with this camera. I've just taken it out of the jumble in the drawer pic I posted in #8 and now photographed it with a phone !

I have to admit I have forgotten how to use the film camera but I still have the manual.
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Seem to remember that Press photographers in the 1950s nearly always used Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex cameras. I think that the camera used 120 roll film which gave two and a quarter inch square negatives. These negatives could give enlarged prints of extremely high resolution. Dave.
 
oldMohawk said:
Way back in 1973 three of us went on a business trip to Japan and our hosts gave each of us a camera. /QUOTE]

The Japanese have always been very keen on photography. I once took a group of Japanese businessmen on a short tour of central London. They were taking occasional photographs until we got to the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus. I told them that this had been regarded as the Hub of the British Empire. They went crazy. Aaah "Hub of British Empire!". They had to have a record of this and every camera was furiously clicking. Dave.
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Eric, thanks. The landscape looks familier to some photos my dad took durin WWII, I know he travelled along the Suez Canal too.
 
Not sure about that, it looks different and seems to be loaded on a barge, maybe a replacement for the wrecked one.
The earlier (damaged) one was built by the Brits during WW2.

Our workshop at El Kirsch was a former railway workshop with tracks and repair pits for the trains.
At Moascar we didn't have any worshop buildings we worked out in the open, chain link fence used rolled out on the ground to stop sinking into the sand.
 
I bought this Minox 35 MB film camera in 1988. It is very small, measuring 4 inches x 2.5 inches x 1 inch. The film ISO can be set from 25 to 1600 but usually I would use either 100 or 400 ISO films. Aperture could be set from f 2.8 to f 16 and distance could also be set from 0.9 metres to infinity. I don't think there is a speed setting. I used it mainly for landscape photographs, preferring an SLR for portraits. Dave.
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This is a one-chance only photograph. It was taken at the Queen Mother's funeral on 9th April 2002 using a Canon AE1 SLR, a 800 ISO colour film and a zoom lens. It shows left-to-right Prince Andrew, Charles, Philip, Anne and Edward. It was taken in the Mall. Dave.
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