photo from week 301 - Wirgin Baky

This is a square crop of the full negative. For this one I used a tripod and set the shutter speed to 1 second, allowing me to use a small aperture. The 80 year old shutter still seems to fire accurately.

photo from week 301 - Wirgin Baky

I used another of my stock of expired Fuji slide films this week, this is the Velvia 50, cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit. These sculptures were in deep shade, meaning that I had to use a wide aperture with consequent shallow depth of field. The figure on the left is certainly not well focussed.

Week 301 - Wirgin Baky

As the camera's name suggests, this is a Bakelite camera, it was made in Germany in around 1934. This one has an f2.7 Trioplan lens and a Compur shutter with speeds from 1 sec to 1/250th. All the speeds seem about right, and as it takes 120 film, there is no problem using it today. It takes sixteen 4.5cm x 6cm negatives per roll. I've loaded it with expired Fuji Velvia 50 film.

photos from week 300 - No.3A Kodak Autographic

Here are two separate exposures, they both show the sculpture "The Dappled Light of the Sun" installed at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

photo from week 300 - No.3A Kodak Autographic

This tall semi-figurative sculpture by Barbara Hepworth provided a good subject for the tall narrow format.

photo from week 300 - No.3A Kodak Autographic

Using 120 film in this postcard size camera means that the negatives are long and thin, with only five exposures per roll, I put two rolls through it this week. This is from the first roll, Ilford Delta 400 black and white negative film. The exposure here was about 30 seconds, and it is clear that I was unable to keep my head as still as my hands!

Week 300 - No. 3A Autographic Kodak Camera

I suppose week 300 is something of a milestone, so I decided to mark it by using this large old Kodak folder. It was made between 1914 and 1934 and used the A122 film, to take postcard sized negatives, which would then be contact printed. Needless to say the film is long obsolete, so I'm using 120 film, which is about 25mm narrower than the postcard film. By using an old 120 film, I worked out how many turns of the spool were needed to advance the film between exposures. If my calculations are correct, I should get five exposures out of the roll.