{"id":2481,"date":"2013-12-15T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:37:08","slug":"shooting-with-the-kodak-retina-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"Shooting with the Kodak Retina 1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m loving this little 1950s camera and the pictures it takes. There are lots of little imperfections here and there, maybe dust in the lens – who knows – but I love the vintage look of the photos I have been taking with it.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I took it out for a test run – and I gave an overview of the Retina 1a<\/a>. \u00a0And now I’ve gotten a chance to do a bit more shooting, which I’ll share in case you’re into vintage cameras and are considering buying one.<\/p>\n

The great thing about the camera is that it takes 35mm film. \u00a0The film below is Kodak 400TX (Tri-X), currently available.<\/p>\n

\"Kanchi<\/a><\/p>\n

The photos below and above are from one of the old temples at Kanchipuram. \u00a0I blogged about that temple and shared some digital camera photos of the place here.<\/a>\u00a0 A line runs through most of the photos – I think it has to do with the way the film passes over the rollers – and I plan to take a look at it, but in some ways I don’t mind it. \u00a0The line above is crooked because I can’t manage to hold a camera horizontal to save my live. \u00a0so I turned it in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

\"Kanchi<\/a><\/p>\n

With these old-looking black and white photos, you can apply an additional filter with Instagram, or on Flickr’s editing tool, and get interesting effects like the one below. They can fake a lot of the photo damage to make it look old, but why fake it when you have the real thing?<\/p>\n

\"Welfare<\/a><\/p>\n

Then there was this group of guys we met in one of the temples. Raucous bunch.<\/p>\n

\"Jaya<\/a><\/p>\n

The next couple of photos are from Hyderabad. The camera works well to capture old buildings, which can be fun in India:<\/p>\n

\"Townhouse\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally, a guy whose facial expression doesn’t match his shirt:<\/p>\n

\"Jeweller\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To see other photos taken with the Retina 1a, you can go here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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