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Testing the Vest Pocket Kodak Model B
I love these little Vest Pocket Kodaks. Â They are about the size of a Blackberry (twice as thick) folded up. Â Kodak made these starting in 1912, and continued until 1926. Â They were revolutionary at the time. Â As the first camera to use 127 rollfilm, about 4 centimeters long and the thickness of a magic marker,
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Testing the Kodak Retina 1a
In today’s world of camera that are fully automatic, and only the hard-core photographer bothers to worry about and understand concepts such as aperture and ISO, managing to get decent photos from a camera where you must set everything manually can be fun and rewarding. Â So I loaded my newly-received Retina with a 36-exposure roll
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Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 35 (522/24) Focusing Woes
The Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 35 (522/24) is a cleverly-designed little camera from the late 1940s and early 1950s that fits in your pocket and is easy and fun to use. Â In fact, after World War II, this German-manufactured camera became a hit with GIs stationed in Germany as it was sold in military PXes. The
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Found Film: “Backyard Family” and “My Puppy”
In a continuing series in which I share photos I get from old rolls of film that turn up out there, whose original owners forgot to ever develop them… Here are a couple of rolls where I barely got anything whatsoever, but you can still make out just a bit of detail. The first is
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Vintage Camera: Kodak Duaflex II
One of the key aspects of the vintage cameras I collect is that they should function. Â This was the case with the Kodak Duaflex II, a plastic (bakelite) camera manufactured from 1950 to 1954. Â It is normally held at waist level, and you look down into the brilliant glass viewfinder, which shows where the camera