Do you remember
Jan 18, 2015 17:37:46 #
bobmcculloch wrote:
Box Camera (Ansco), VP120, D76?, Dektol?, Edwal and FR developers, not sure the names, BTW any body deep tank sheet film under red light, did x-rays that way when the PACO went down, Bob.
Dektol, D76, etc. Pathway through time. The smell of hypo.
Jan 18, 2015 17:47:48 #
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Absolutely. I remember them very well. I am 65 and when I was a young bot I had I believe an Ansco box camera. It was red plastic with a black plastic shutter button on the top right and a black knob on the right side to advance the film while looking at a small red window on the back to see when the next frame number came up. It also had a small flash that plugged into the left side with 2 metal pins. It used 620 film and for the flash it used Sylvania press 5 or 25 flash bulbs. I did my own darkroom work too and made many contact as well as enlarged prints. I used D-76, Dektol and Microdol-X developers. When I started if I wanted glossy prints I had to clean and polish a ferrotype tin and roll them face doen on it so when they dried and popped off they had the gloss. Later I got a heated ferrotype drum. The other camera I had was ny mother's Kodak that shot 127 film.
Jan 18, 2015 18:52:24 #
Brian in Whitby
Loc: Whitby, Ontario, Canada
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
I remember most of them and I am 20 years younger. I can't recall MG developer but I seem to remember Dectol. the 116 film size escapes me but I recall 120 and Kodak's proprietary 620 format.
Jan 18, 2015 20:41:35 #
MacMom, That is actually quite a decent picture given that you had such an inexpensive camera and it was 1937. Because of the much larger negative size back then one could get a decent image with really low quality lenses. The tonality isn't bad. Was this a scanned print or a scanned negative?
For those old enough to remember or who know a bit about the history of photography 35mm film cameras got their start with Leica around 1924 and back then the 35mm cameras were not called 35mm cameras, they were called miniature film cameras. Most of the film sizes in use before that time were 3.5 to 5 times larger in area than 35mm film and to get a good image one needed a great lens. That was the task at hand for Leica when they developed the first 35mm cameras and in retrospect given the quality of the first Leica lenses for 35mm cameras they did a hell of a job. My oldest Leica rangefinder camera dates to 1951. I have a friend in Beverly Hills who is 91 years old and grew up in Germany. His dad gave him a Leica when he was about 14 years old. That would be about 1938 and that camera was an old Leica dating back to about 1926. He still has the camera and the serial number bears out its age. I told him if he doesn't have anyone in mind in his will that I would be interested in buying it however, truth be told, I can't afford that camera which could probably go at auction for over $5000.
For those old enough to remember or who know a bit about the history of photography 35mm film cameras got their start with Leica around 1924 and back then the 35mm cameras were not called 35mm cameras, they were called miniature film cameras. Most of the film sizes in use before that time were 3.5 to 5 times larger in area than 35mm film and to get a good image one needed a great lens. That was the task at hand for Leica when they developed the first 35mm cameras and in retrospect given the quality of the first Leica lenses for 35mm cameras they did a hell of a job. My oldest Leica rangefinder camera dates to 1951. I have a friend in Beverly Hills who is 91 years old and grew up in Germany. His dad gave him a Leica when he was about 14 years old. That would be about 1938 and that camera was an old Leica dating back to about 1926. He still has the camera and the serial number bears out its age. I told him if he doesn't have anyone in mind in his will that I would be interested in buying it however, truth be told, I can't afford that camera which could probably go at auction for over $5000.
Jan 18, 2015 20:53:42 #
Reinaldokool wrote:
Dektol, D76, etc. Pathway through time. The smell of hypo.
Ahhhh yes the aroma of Hypo..... :D
Jan 18, 2015 21:15:40 #
insman1132 wrote:
I remember. I also remember my first Kodak Brownie Movie Camera. I got it as a gift but it had only a fixed lens, and I wanted the turret model with the Wide angle (2x), regular, and Telephoto (3x) Lens. So I took the camera back to the dealer and exchanged it, and $15.00, for the turret model.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:19:12 #
Good question. I don't know for sure but suspect a negative, as I have a few of the negatives I took with my then new camera. I have been scanning the old negatives and pictures since the late 90s.
Jan 18, 2015 22:29:38 #
My first was a Browmie box. I took photos all over the country with that thing and it never missed a snap.
Jan 18, 2015 22:59:25 #
Remember a Kodak Brownie using Verichrome Pan in 620 and taking over moms hall closet(no windows)for my darkroom...the good old days!
Jan 19, 2015 00:16:05 #
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
At 60 and having done various types of hobby and some commercial photography, I am familiar with 120 VPS & 620 VPS film and tray processing of both prints and 4x5 & 8x10 film. I still have sets of tray from 5x7 to 16x20 for 4x5 to 16x20 paper and film. I have a number of 35mm & 120/220/620 film processor tanks.
I only know what a "Box Camera" is and the (since 1984?) obsolete 116 film format.
Never heard of MQ Developer as such. But if you mean Wards, Kodak, Ansco, Ilford, etc., Metol - Quinol developer, yes I've heard of it. From what I've read it is like generic Dektol. Probably horrible for B&W 35mm films.
I could make my own list of antique, vintage, or just plain obsolete photographic chemicals, equipments, tools, and supplies. But I am not going to do that right now.
Miss Plus-X and Kodachrome Films though! :(
Jan 19, 2015 00:22:30 #
lamiaceae wrote:
At 60 and having done various types of hobby and s... (show quote)
MQ is a Metol and Hydroquinone developer. So, yes Dektol, D-76 etc...
Jan 19, 2015 01:23:47 #
PeteSchmitt
Loc: Seattle
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Yes, I remember my dad's box camera, that one turned on the side to change the orientation. When I was in the sixth grade I was given a small camera that took 127 film and shot half frame. My aunt gave me her processing pans and I learned to develop and print contact prints. And the story continues.
Jan 19, 2015 05:36:16 #
lamiaceae wrote:
At 60 and having done various types of hobby and s... (show quote)
Kodachrome. The greatest. Wonderful color. Invented by musicians, of all things. Extensively used by Ansel Adams. Remember those huge Kodak color advertising transparencies in Grnad Central station? "Those were the days, my friend."
Jan 19, 2015 05:48:27 #
Adams used his large format camera with sheets of Kodachrome. Check out book, Ansel Adams in Color. Here's a sample:
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1932762_1974618,00.html
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1932762_1974618,00.html
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