pennyup
Yes, I used digital cameras until a year ago and then gave everything to my grandchildren. Since I started using my old WW II camera and doing only Black & White, the fast, efficient, wonderful digital contrasting with the slow black & white photography just did not go together. So I will not even use a digital camera anymore. Doing black & white photography makes one feel UN-productive. When I go out on a black & white shoot I may come back with only one or maybe two negative. It takes 20 or 30 minutes to develop, fix, wash & dry one negative, then the process to the enlarger and developing process of making a print is slow and time consuming. But most times the results are more than worth the slow process of getting a nice beautiful 16"x20" black & white print. I don't know how I really got into talking about myself but your Frozen Camera, I really thought you had a real frozen camera and I had to read your question. Then I just had to tell what a real frozen camera was. I am an 87 year old retired daily "North Idaho Newspaper Publisher" so I have used news cameras since my start in 1944 as a US Army News Photographer.
Bud
VHD-TEX
Well TEX at 87 years of age to stay active is not the easiest thing to do but I do enjoy the true Black & White Silver Gelatin Photography. The word frozen camera also has a defer-ant meaning to me.
Bud
Your question has your camera ever frozen? My meaning frozen & Yours are not the same thing. I am a WW II Veteran & I was an Official U.S. Army News Photographer during WW II in the 82 Airborne. I am now 87 years old. Right after the war ended (Aug. 1945) a special detachment of 82nd Airborne troops Dec. 1945-1946 went to Fairbanks Alaska called Task Force Frigid to test equipment and jump in the frigid weather of Alaska. (There was worry then about Russia.) I was asked to go as official Photographer & I said yes. One of our jumps it was at 20% Below zero when we jumped about 150 miles North East of Fairbanks, Alaska and that night it went down to 64% below zero. My in-between the lens shutter froze. I was able to warm it over a fire and got the shutter open and locked it open, the f-stops still worked, then used the Speed Graphic built in Focal Plane curtain shutter and still got my pictures. The built-in Focal Plane Shutter has speeds from T time to 1000 sec. My camera is a 4"x5" large format Speed Graphic News Camera. When I got discharged after the war I was able to keep the camera. I got it out of storage 2 years ago to see if it still worked and had so much fun I now do Black & White Photography as a hobby. Set up a darkroom with 4"x5" enlarger and I do Black & White Photography the old fashion way like I did in 1945. Hope I am not out of line with this story to explain how the meaning of the word Frozen has changed.
A new member, Bud Budvarson