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Post by royalrat on Sept 12, 2011 2:04:08 GMT -5
 Yitzhak Nitzan bought his first camera at a Tel-Aviv Camera shop in 1958 when he was 22 years old. He used much of the money he saved during his military service to buy it, and he had high hopes that it will serve him for a very long time. In those days, many Israelis preferred to ban German products, but at the same time acknowledged the fact that they were the finest in quality. Mr. Nitzan didn’t think twice and chose the best camera the clerk at the shop could offer him for his money – The German Altix V. During the next 30 years this camera served its purpose, until it was replaced by an automatic point and shoot. Now, at the age of 76, Mr. Nitzan has found it again, and offered me to take it for a ride. This camera is a strong one, so he didn’t fear I would ruin it. “What’s the different”, he said “Nobody in my family is interested in this camera anyway”. It is very exciting to use such an old camera, but soon enough I forgot that fact, and was running with it down to the beach and into the waves. Don’t worry, the Altix V survived the ordeal and came back from the dead of the closet to tell its story once again! royalrat.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/my-photographic-time-tunnel-altix-v/Or watch it on YouTube:  |
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Post by daveh on Sept 12, 2011 4:07:35 GMT -5
An interesting story. However, the link takes me to your website, but only to a dead-end there.
(Just a mathematical note of no real importance: 22 years old in 1958 i.e born in 1936, or possibly 1935, he would be 75 or 76 now.)
The panorama is what we used to see before digital came along to hide the joins.
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Post by royalrat on Sept 12, 2011 4:24:32 GMT -5
Thanks Dave!
I really appreciate you letting me know about these!
Thanks!!!
Yaniv.
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Sept 12, 2011 7:10:47 GMT -5
Yaniv,
nice story and a superb selection of photos.
I'm now after some more information.
What film did you use? Colour reversal (slide film) or colour negative?
Did you do any post production digital editing?
I ask these questions because I love the colour rendition in your 21st century images, which have a beautiful 'vintage' feel (I can describe it no other way).
No matter the answer, I think that lens is lovely and you are showing plenty of talent in the grand old art of zone focusing.
Michael.
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Post by royalrat on Sept 12, 2011 9:46:39 GMT -5
Thanks!
Now you expect me to reveal all my secrets?
I'm joking...
I'm using the cheapest film I can find on the photo store down the street. I want to try reversal and pro series, but they are not easy to find. I have a 35mm color real cinematic film rolled into a canister for special use, and I'm waiting for the right moment and camera to use it.
As for the final results, I get a 2000x3000 scanned negative image from the store and Photoshop it a little bit - cropping edges, sometime horizontal balancing, and a touch of color toning when it's too dim.
When I'll have more time, money and knowledge I hope to do the developing myself.
I hope I've answered your questions. If you need any further help, I'll be honored to provide it.
Yaniv.
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Post by royalrat on Sept 12, 2011 10:06:26 GMT -5
Yaniv, sometimes, for whatever reason, a link or some such doesn't work as it should. If no one points it out then you will perhaps go on believing all is well - and losing viewers as a result. On another theme, I never know if your nom de plume is Royal Rat, Roy Alrat, or Roy Al Rat!  Dave. The Royal Rat alias is just a joke, but I still have the www.royalrat.com domain for old time sake. Thanks again! |
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Post by daveh on Sept 12, 2011 10:18:58 GMT -5
Yaniv,
It's all working fine now and Yitzhak has got younger!
I tend to forget that there are many out there who have arrived at digital first and not come through film and its D&P (developing and printing).
What has changed significantly for doing it yourself is the almost complete lack of shops selling photographic chemicals. As well as specialised photographic dealers chemists (pharmacies) would usually stock all that was necessary. Our local chemist, Jones', used to have a good stock of hardware, film and chemicals. Now there is just film, and not too much of that. There were two shops in Liverpool (I'm sure there were others) which specialised in outdated, short-dated or surplus (government or otherwise) paper and film: bulk film too. Strangely, both shops were F.E. Jones, though they had no connection with each other.
I need to get some chemicals to do my Kodachrome films. I'm still deciding what to do for the best - which developer to use. I might cut a few frames off and do a test run to see if I need to increase development time. If I'm very lucky I'll cut near a frame end, if not I can always stitch it back together later.
Dave.
p.s. I was already writing this when you did your last post. Thanks for reply.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 11:34:27 GMT -5
Dave:
Don't think you'll be processing Kodachrome at home unless you are a chemist. The dyes have to be added during the development process. That's why only special labs could process the film. There was never a "off the shelf" developer for Kodachrome.
W.
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Post by daveh on Sept 12, 2011 11:43:51 GMT -5
Wayne, no I know that - it's just what to use to get the best B&W results possible.
Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 16:48:16 GMT -5
I guess that would produce almost grainless negatives
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Post by royalrat on Sept 13, 2011 13:18:03 GMT -5
Dear friends!
I thank you all for your comments, and I wish to ask you for a favor. I really appreciate your help. I've just finished a YouTube series pilot about my Photographic weakness for these old camera that we all love so much. I would be thankful if you could watch it and write me your comments and ideas. Don't be nice or polite. I wants to know what you really think and if improvements should be done. I think you guys are serious in this field, so it is really important for me to hear your thoughts.
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 13, 2011 13:56:55 GMT -5
There are still at least two large Toronto dealers who sell chemicals and darkroom equipment.
Vistek and Henry's. There may be others.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Sept 13, 2011 14:04:35 GMT -5
There are still at least two large Toronto dealers Don't tell me,................they eat at McDonald's. |
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 13, 2011 14:24:49 GMT -5
There are still at least two large Toronto dealers Don't tell me,................they eat at McDonald's. No sir. Strictly Canadian. Tim Hortons. The donuts AKA "sinkers" are also used to weight the end of the films hung up for drying. Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Sept 13, 2011 14:32:57 GMT -5
They haven't arrived over here - even as ballast.
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