{"id":1633,"date":"2013-05-11T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T06:41:24","slug":"lomography-remembering-the-70s-with-a-ricoh-kr-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"Lomography: Remembering the 70s with a Ricoh Kr-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back the first set of photos from my “newest old camera”, a Ricoh Kr-5<\/a> dating from around 1975. \u00a0It’s a thing of beauty, especially when I think of the cameras I personally owned in the late 1970s and the 1980s. \u00a0It was a steal on eBay, coming with a “1970s brown” nylon bag, a clip-on flash unit, a 3x telephoto converter, a wire shutter release, and the manual for under 20 bucks including shipping.<\/p>\n

For those of you who lived through the 70s, the photos came back looking just as I remember them – a bit washed out and weird. \u00a0I always thought that’s how the 70s looked – turns out it was just the film!<\/p>\n

The one thing I can’t seem to get working right is the exposure meter – new batteries didn’t seem to make a difference. \u00a0The exposure indicators in the viewfinder don’t seem to react at all to light changes; however, the camera seems to be pretty forgiving (or I just got lucky) as most of the issues with the photos I took came from focus problems, not overexposure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are some samples. \u00a0I think even some of the pics that are technically flawed still end up looking kind of cool.<\/p>\n

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\"000023\"<\/a>\u00a0These guys on the roof are captured with the 3x tele. \u00a0Seems to be an odd tilt-shift effect going on.<\/p>\n

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Odd that the background washes out so quickly. \u00a0There are other plants and rocks about 7 meters beyond the lemon tree.<\/p>\n

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Seems that using a tripod with the tele converter would not be a bad idea!<\/p>\n

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I find this to be an interesting set. The only difference should be the f-stop setting. I wish I knew what I had used! One of the advantages of digital photography…<\/p>\n

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\n0.8 meters is as close as the camera is able to focus. This must have been about 0.75 m!<\/p>\n

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I just got back the first set of photos from my “newest old camera”, a Ricoh Kr-5 dating from around 1975. \u00a0It’s a thing of beauty, especially when I think of the cameras I personally owned in the late 1970s and the 1980s. \u00a0It was a steal on eBay, coming with a “1970s brown” nylon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[803],"tags":[851,850,804,849],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vintage-cameras","tag-film-photography","tag-kr-5","tag-lomography","tag-ricoh"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}