Archive for June, 2011
My Life in Cameras no.9
9. ZENIT B The Zenit B was a Russian single-lens-reflex camera made between 1968 and 1973. Heavy, clunky, not a pleasure to use, it was years behind its East German competitor. the Praktica, which itself was years behind its Japanese competitors. It had no built-in lightmeter nor an automatic diaphragm. This meant you had to […]
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Tags: Antifascist Central School, Communist camera, Jerusalem 1975, Jerusalem street photographs, KMZ optics company, Russian cameras, Russian SLR camera, Zenit B
My Life in Cameras no.10
10. PENTAX MX The MX was one of the best products of the SLR era: compact, ergonomic and straightforward. This is a mechanical, fully manual camera which is the logical form for an analogue SLR. If you’re using such a sophisticated tool, why would you want it to be automated, surely the whole point is […]
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Tags: Flinders Street photo, Melbourne photography school, Pentax MX, Pentax SLR, photography 1980, Photography Studies College, PSC, South Melbourne Football Club 1981
My Life in Cameras, no.13
13. PACEMAKER SPEED GRAPHIC I bought this camera in 1983 for $200 and I’ve loved it ever since. It’s a 5×4 press camera, 1955. f4.7, 135mm Optar lens. Shutters speeds T, B, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400. Apertures to f32. Leaf shutter plus focal plane shutter. Rangefinder focus. Rear ground glass […]
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Tags: 5x4 camera, American cameras, Folmer & Schwing, Folmer & Schwing Manufacturing Company, Graflex, old press camera, Pacemaker Speed Graphic, Speed Graphic, Weegee camera, Weegee Speed Graphic, Weegee The Naked City
My Life in Cameras, no.22
22. ERCONA II Looking back at all the cameras I’ve had, I counted twenty two that have meant something to me, or that I used in some significant way. Photographers love cameras, I mean they’re in love with them, it’s a feeling that non-photographers don’t understand. So I decided to research these twenty two, to […]
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Tags: 6x9 camera, 6x9 format, apug, East German cameras, Ercona II camera, Glenlyon, Glenlyon Reserve, Greg Wayn, Ikonta 6x9, Novonar lens, postwar camera, Treuhandanstalt, Zeiss Ikon Dresden
