Time traveler?
Jun 28, 2022 14:19:07 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
Jun 28, 2022 14:41:15 #
Tote1940 wrote:
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
I suggest that he is using sheet film rather than plates.
Jun 28, 2022 14:42:39 #
Jun 28, 2022 15:28:58 #
Sure looks like a very well preserved / maintained Grafelx, perhaps a Crown. Whatever the camera, it looks like the sports finder isn't deployed completely.
Jun 28, 2022 16:11:15 #
twowindsbear wrote:
Sure looks like a very well preserved / maintained Grafelx, perhaps a Crown. Whatever the camera, it looks like the sports finder isn't deployed completely.
Owned and used one: Speed Graphic 4x5 sheet film. I used it for landscape mostly.
Jun 28, 2022 16:23:34 #
Tote1940 wrote:
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
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Jun 28, 2022 17:10:38 #
Tote1940 wrote:
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
I'm pretty sure the photog is David Burnett. Still not sure about the camera, though.
Jun 28, 2022 23:55:54 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
According to some people, that guy must be senile because he isn’t using the latest mirror camera. Doesn’t he know that there’s no way he can take a photo with antiquated equipment?
Jun 29, 2022 00:17:37 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
According to some people, that guy must be senile because he isn’t using the latest mirror camera. Doesn’t he know that there’s no way he can take a photo with antiquated equipment?
Nope. Probably getting good pics. But I also suspect there is a bit of look at me in all that.
Jun 29, 2022 07:23:20 #
rcarol wrote:
I suggest that he is using sheet film rather than plates.
Yup, that's a dark slide he's holding, covered the film when film holder was removed from camera, 2 sides marked differently, unexposed and exposed, you turned it over when replacing it in the film holder to mark it as exposed.
Jun 29, 2022 07:40:11 #
photon-collector
Loc: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
Tote1940 wrote:
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
That appears to be a Graflex sheet film camera, probably a 4x5". The photog. is either removing or inserting the "dark slide" into the film holder, so that the holder can be removed from the camera. Each film holder could accommodate two sheets of film, or a fancy "film pack" that I believe held about 12 exposures. My dad, an engineer, worked for Eastman Kodak for many years. When he was tired of this 3.25" x 4.25" Speed Graphic, he gifted it to me. It had a Pre-war Carl Zeiss lens that could resolve the individual eyelashes on a tick at 100 yards....or so it seemed. Focusing was through a side-mounted Kalart rangefinder, or through the ground-glass back. It had both focal plane and leaf shutter....and double extension bellows that allowed magnification down close to 1:1. It was quite a rig, and the one that I cut my teeth on when I was about 14.
Jun 29, 2022 07:41:36 #
Jun 29, 2022 07:43:18 #
And then there is this guy. I have no idea what the camera is but I didn't envy him lugging it around in the hot Texas sun. Taken at the 2017 F1 race in Austin. Apparently this is his regular thing according to an article I read on a website or in a magazine. Don't remember any details though. Heck, most days I can't remember if I had breakfast! 
Jun 29, 2022 08:02:14 #
Tote1940 wrote:
Watching CSpan Jan 6th hearing a gentleman with large format plate camera?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
No flash?
Time traveler or digital plate?
Are there plates to capture photos like plates used on XRays?
Yes that is sheet film 4X5. That is a 4X5 film camera. In the US Army photo school then at Fort Mammoth N.J. that was the first camera that we trained on then the 2 1/4 and 2 1/4 camera ( using 120 film) and last the 35mm camera.
Jun 29, 2022 08:30:30 #
Just missed a priceless expression! Just missed a priceless gesture! Just missed a priceless, unrepeatable interaction with the host! ("Dang!Dang!Dang!... Gotta' get me one of those Sonys!")
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