This is why Medium Format film is so amazing.

I recently got myself an Epson V500 scanner to scan my film. No more half-ass rigs with my digital camera. What a difference. I was scanning some of my 120 medium format film and started to blow them up a bit to see how good they came out and found this. A picture inside a picture, pretty cool. The negative was scanned at 2400 dpi and it was shot with a Yashica A on Fuji Acros 100 film.

Picture of a Vintage Chevy at a car show taken with a Yashica A.

Look closer.

Here's me taking the shot with the Yashica A and a fill flash. Pretty amazing.

Thanks for watching.

Gerry :)

1953 Maserati 250F, a photo essay.

This 1953 Maserati 250F was at the Legends of racing week end at the Mont-Tremblant circuit in Quebec. Funny thing happened there, I asked what had to be done in order to be able to shoot over the wire. I observed a few photographers with orange vest inside the track perimeter and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask how it would be possible to do the same. The answer I got was get a bigger and better camera while pointing at my G12 from a track official! Turns out that someone else with more brains told me you had to be registered media.

So I put away my G12, pulled out the most ordinary camera in my bag, a Nikon Coolpix S8100, found a small gap in the fence and shot this:

Never insult a man's gear! Anyways, I took some detail shots of the car with the G12 and my medium format 1939 Voigtlander Brillant. Enjoy.

Thanks for watching.

Gerry

Using a $5 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash

The 50's version of a point and shoot.

I got my hands on this beat up 1950 something Kodak Brownie Hawkeye flash this week. A pretty simple little camera that has seen better days. It came with the flash holder but I don't have any bulbs right now, so I used it with film only.

One good thing and one bad thing about this camera. the good thing is altough it was made to use 620 film which is discontinued, if you still have the original 620 spool in the take up position, a 120 film will fit in the feeder side. The bad thing is that it is fixed at aperture f/11 and 1/30th of a second for shutter speed.

I shot a roll of Ilford HP4 125 on a very sunny day, so that meant the entire roll would be over exposed. Normal setting for this type of condition would have been f/16 at 1/125. So I had to reduce the processing time in order to compensate. 3 minutes in the developer instead of 4.

The results are pretty good considering that there is no focus adjustment and you shoot through a plastic lens. It's a good thing that I took the time to clean it.

I don't think I'll be using it much but it's handy to have in the arsenal.

Thanks for watching.

Gerry :)

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera

This camera was originally made to work with 620 film. That format hasn't been around for years and you can only buy it online for about $13 bucks a roll. You can actually respool 120 to old 620 spools also.

However, this one is made in a way that it will take a 120 roll of film with no modification. One catch, you have to use an empty 620 spool in the take up end. Just make sure you ask for your 620 spool back when you get the film processed. They are getting hard to come by.

I'm not keeping this one since I already have a decent 6X6 camera. It's up for grabs but still a nice little piece of kit.

Gerry :)

1939 Voigtlander Brillant test roll.

A few months back I bought a 120 film Voigtlander Brillant camera for $40 at a flea market. This was pretty expensive for me as I usually dump no more than $20 on old cameras. I bought a good quality film for it, Kodak Portra 160 professional and loaded it.

1/100 at f/16

I was a bit worried about the condition of the lens and I had problems loading and counting the frames properly. I eventually lost 4 frames on the roll to that stupid mistake. Live and learn!

1/100 at f/16

The shots came out real good. Apart from 2 that came out out of focus due to me not being steady enough while holding the camera, the remaining 6 shots came out real good. I can't wait to load it up again to take some real nice shots.

1/100 at f/16

 The first and last shot are covered in dust from the scan. The shop that did the job will remain nameless until I see what they are willing to do about it once I bring it to their attention.

1/100 at f/16

f/100 at f/16

1/25 at f/3.2 no flash

Hope you enjoy what I posted here. Thanks for watching.

Gerry :)