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Post by paulhofseth on May 25, 2015 2:10:53 GMT -5
The made-in-US cine Bolsey had a fixed Navitar 10mm f 1.8. lens
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Post by paulhofseth on May 21, 2015 13:29:19 GMT -5
And later, they also made a tiny TLR plus a 2x8 camera doubling up as a thousands-of-exposures still camera for those who had a suitable enlarger and a need for thousands of stills before developing each film.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 30, 2015 13:41:27 GMT -5
Firefox with "Noscript" and "Adblock". I did click on the insert picture icon. Thanks for inserting Cii-
I will try again later with some other letter.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 29, 2015 13:43:06 GMT -5
hmmm, no picture in the post above, although I followed instructions to the letter. I will have to revisit my computers security settings, - no preview either.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 29, 2015 13:41:26 GMT -5
L for Leica Cii.( It remains to be seen whether I have mastered the art of inserting pictures.), the code is public.fotki.com/collector/snaps/c11.htmlErnst Leitz GMBH would probably not like that their less fashionable and cheaper products are displayed, but this was a reasonably good , and very well shaped, attempt to cash in on a new market. If everyone thows it away it will become expensive. In the meantime it remains good looking.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 27, 2015 3:41:05 GMT -5
I am still battling the security settings on my computers combined with the intricacies of referring to cloud-sites. Here is an attempt to flag H for Hermagis.http://public.fotki.com/collector/snaps/hermagis.html ... link is also inserted via the "insert image" button and the "insert lnk" button linkp.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 24, 2015 14:41:47 GMT -5
No, no, your English is perfectly clear - Vous est en Belgique, et vous parlais Francais? or possibly Flemish oder Plattdeutsch which is readable from German and Scandinavian languages with much guessing-.
I just read too fast "as new" was absolutely correct, indicating something like "speckless", not "produced today".
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 22, 2015 8:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 22, 2015 8:14:25 GMT -5
Kyocera remains a leading producer of ceramic & hightech materials. Their past compact digital efforts labelled "Contax" was new to me.This website constantly contains surprises.
(With the "as new" in post#1 I assumed this to be a recent product -while Kyoceras ancient Contax website is quite clear on their ceasing production years ago.)
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 21, 2015 16:20:27 GMT -5
Strange device.
Last I heard of Contax was when Kyocera announced when they would cease maintaining its latest incarnation, but kept the rights to the name, preventing Zeiss from reviving it.
I expect that either Kyocera (or Zeiss) will sue if they can find the anonymous makers of this one, or that they and Zeiss suddenly have become so hard up that they have sold their rights. (It would be interesting to see when, if ever, the Contax name will revert to Zeiss ownership.)
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 9, 2015 6:01:14 GMT -5
No one else with X yet? public.fotki.com/collector/- and as you may deduce from looking, Z is next when someone provides Y. The double Gauss Xenon came in innumerable varieties. That particular one is for 2x8. p.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 7, 2015 13:33:55 GMT -5
I mostly gave away Cibachromes, so the only one I have hanging here is of ferns against the light. They were yellow green then and are yellow green now. Difficult to say whether they have changed.
I have the original Kodachrome stored dark& not too warm, but together with a very large number of other slides, so do not expect facts anytime soon.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 7, 2015 2:42:52 GMT -5
In alphabetical sync. W is posted for public access. Thanks for guidance on netstorage.
Why W for a 2x8 made by a company starting with D and better known for making resistors? Dralowid sourced their lenses from Minox and they were in Wetzlar. (The lens reads Dralomar, Minox, Wetzlar).
The camera is wound by pulling a ring underneath. When the string is fully extended and snaps back, you are ready to make films (provided that you have slit 16mm stock or obtained ready spooled 2x8 film).
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 7, 2015 2:27:33 GMT -5
Out of sync with the alphabet, I have just managed to load AAA here:http://public.fotki.com/collector/. If time allows I will get in sync and load a W.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 7, 2015 2:00:57 GMT -5
Computer screens have one great advantage over paper in a frame: they are lit from behind. That makes for more vivid colours, but not necessarily more natural pictures. Angle of view can easily distort contrast, blacks are not really that black, and many common screens are reflective.
Agfa Portriga did not have luminous whites, but neither did it reflect what was behind you. And of course the Cibachromes on your wall will still be visible 100years after they were made, while you may be hard pressed to keep changing storage media to preserve your digital snaps.
Raw files do lend themselves to correcting mistakes. No more juggling of filters when the light is 2800K instead of 5500K. Tradeoff with noise in one minute of juggling with the computer rather than moving to different films. Large pixel count so as to enable blowups when not having a telelens around, so yes, raw is fine. Especially if all companies standardized on one way of organizing the info received by the sensors.
Otherwise, only computer screen use (or 12x15cm prints), no blowups or corrections needing 16bit Tiffs, then Jpegs and small sensors will be adequate.
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