grebeman
Old Codgers Group
- Name
- Barrie
I guess my interest in photography was started by looking into the windows of The Western Morning News office in Plymouth where beautifully exposed and printed monochrome photographs were displayed from recent editions of the paper.
My first purchase was a Voigtlander Bessa 1 folding rollfilm camera, 8 on 120 with a 4 element 105mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar Tessar type lens in a Syncro-Compur shutter, a model built between 1949 and 1957, and I've subsequently found out was top of the range, although there were only two models in the range. I very soon added a Mamiya Press camera which came with a 90mm f/3.5 Mamiya-Sekor lens, again 4 elements in 3 groups. This had rangefinder coupled focusing and removable film backs for 6x7 and 6x9 formats. There was also a ground glass focusing back which could hold cut film and could be used for critical focusing with the camera on a tripod.
Here are some of my first attempts.
Labelled negative number 3, so my third exposure on my first ever roll of film taken using the Voigtlander
Negative number 33, again with the Voigtlander, focusing and framing guessed at
This subject was later repeated with the Mamiya Press (that's what I call bokeh)
Back to the Voigtlander
Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
It was really looking at these images that prompted me to start the thread on Philosophy - The Obsession with "gear" earlier today. Yes I know the cameras are limited in the range of subjects they can tackle but they are capable of producing decent results, and what more can you ask than that?
Barrie
P.S. Perhaps I always aspired to be a photographer!
My first purchase was a Voigtlander Bessa 1 folding rollfilm camera, 8 on 120 with a 4 element 105mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar Tessar type lens in a Syncro-Compur shutter, a model built between 1949 and 1957, and I've subsequently found out was top of the range, although there were only two models in the range. I very soon added a Mamiya Press camera which came with a 90mm f/3.5 Mamiya-Sekor lens, again 4 elements in 3 groups. This had rangefinder coupled focusing and removable film backs for 6x7 and 6x9 formats. There was also a ground glass focusing back which could hold cut film and could be used for critical focusing with the camera on a tripod.
Here are some of my first attempts.
Labelled negative number 3, so my third exposure on my first ever roll of film taken using the Voigtlander
Negative number 33, again with the Voigtlander, focusing and framing guessed at
This subject was later repeated with the Mamiya Press (that's what I call bokeh)
Back to the Voigtlander
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Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
Mamiya Press
It was really looking at these images that prompted me to start the thread on Philosophy - The Obsession with "gear" earlier today. Yes I know the cameras are limited in the range of subjects they can tackle but they are capable of producing decent results, and what more can you ask than that?
Barrie
P.S. Perhaps I always aspired to be a photographer!
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