smithdan
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A friend who lives in England found this one in a thrift shop. She thought that its canvas carry case looked cute and picked it up for me.
This one's a lot smaller than other boxes from the mid to late 1930's. Here it is along side an Ensign from around the same time. Placing the lens in front of the shutter and probably making it more refractive shortens the lens to film distance and its overall length.
The case and inside bits are metal. this one had lots of surface rust which cleaned up not too badly. The shiny stuff inside the viewfinders was dull making aiming a bit difficult.
Respooled some FP4, taped it up real good especially over the red window and headed off to a small town South of here that has some interesting early 20th century architecture.
Found this one to have a healthy dose of "Brownie softness" and also that camera movement was harder to control working the shutter on this one compared to some of my other boxes. All eight frames were acceptable, here's the six best, other two are over on timor's lo - fi thread.
The camera is fixed at around f11, shutter a tired 1/50 sec. Ilford FP4 in D76 1:1.
This one's a lot smaller than other boxes from the mid to late 1930's. Here it is along side an Ensign from around the same time. Placing the lens in front of the shutter and probably making it more refractive shortens the lens to film distance and its overall length.
The case and inside bits are metal. this one had lots of surface rust which cleaned up not too badly. The shiny stuff inside the viewfinders was dull making aiming a bit difficult.
Respooled some FP4, taped it up real good especially over the red window and headed off to a small town South of here that has some interesting early 20th century architecture.
Found this one to have a healthy dose of "Brownie softness" and also that camera movement was harder to control working the shutter on this one compared to some of my other boxes. All eight frames were acceptable, here's the six best, other two are over on timor's lo - fi thread.
The camera is fixed at around f11, shutter a tired 1/50 sec. Ilford FP4 in D76 1:1.