Much earlier, I felt an urge to start an old folder camera collection so I started buying them up, naturally hoping that some of them might be good enough to run a roll of film through. I bought around 100 over a period of a year or so. Invariably, the seller would say, "I'm not sure what this is. Somebody said it was an old camera but you couldn't prove it by me. It came out of my grandpa's attic when he died and it looks brand new." Not a single one of those old folders I bought were functional, not a single one - frozen shutters, pinholes in the bellows, etc. I restored the ones that I could and have indeed run some film through them. The nicest one I bought was a Moscva 5 made in Russia, a copy of a Ziess camera that was real hot at the same time. The Moscva takes 120/220 and shoots 6x9 and with 6x7 and 2 1/4 square film masks. It is a tank and made at a time when the best thing we could turn out in this country was a piece of plastic or Bakelite.

All those old cameras do make a nice collection and I'm glad to have them. ebay is an interesting place and it seems to bring out the worst in a con artist.

Hey, I see that the gold/yellow is lighter in the 2nd one. I didn't touch it and worked right off the same image I posted originally up top. Something in the process faded it out a little.

You sound like you're leaving us then. I am a good sport as long as the joke isn't on me. :-) Hey, if you're not a good sport, what are ye?

Okay, guys, the goose is cooked and I'm done too.

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Cooked


"Let my people go..." er, uh, geese! Let 'em go!

If you go ebay hunting and you come to an advert for a used lens and the sellers has anything that sounds like what I'm about to share with you, run, don't walk, but run away fast. If the seller says, "I don't know nuthin' about cameras. My aunt Jessica died and left it to me and I don't have no use for it, but I think it's nearly new." What you're gonna get 99 times out of 100 is a broken piece of equipment. Ebay might stand behind it but you're gonna tie up your money for awhile.

Thanks. I think "we're" working on the goose. I just did a hurried lightening and contrast lowering job without respect to the water. I'll pop another edit out there soon.

The original is not too shabby. Both nice. Okay, maybe I'm a step closer to PS. Gotta sleep on it. Thanks. :-)

It is an enjoyable and enlightening occasion to participate in this forum, my first experience at it.

Not to be contrary but to compliment, the person conducting that test is somewhere a tad short of being a wizard - by 6th grade many of us, if not most, down in Arkansas, about 51st on the list of states for education, were aware that we only taste 4 things, sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Everything else with food is smell and the eyes only play the minor role of allowing you to keep your green beans away from your yellow corn.

Of course if you block off the sense of smell, you would only sense the wetness, the fizz and the sweetness. Not sure how that escaped the folks of LA all the way up to college with CA being "the trend setting state" that it is, but I find it interesting. Thanks. Now back to the thread at hand. Sorry! I just felt a need to act on behalf of the "Hijack Sheriff." I guess he's on vacation. :-) Bobbee, are ya listenin'?

Thank you sir. I've enjoyed your valuable contributions to the forum. They're very informative and useful.

APhelpsPhoto has posted a thread involving High Pass. I'm going to assume you'll see but act like you didn't and let you know it's there.

Thanks Carmen. I think we're working on the second one. Feel free to jump right in there with your vision of it too, please. I'd appreciate it if you have the time.

Thank you sir. I certainly value your opinion. I'll try to do even better. Thanks again.

That certainly is a thought. I haven't done much "isolating" but I'll see if I can figure it out. Thanks.

It's a really nice image, clear, sharp, soft yet crisp focus, great bokeh. Would you mind posting the original so I can see the changes High Pass made. I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks.