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Post by genazzano on Mar 27, 2013 13:49:18 GMT -5
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Post by photax on Mar 27, 2013 14:17:35 GMT -5
Hi ! Thats great ! Thanks for showing ! The Italian building looks very "futuristic". I have a similar camera in my collection and it seems that I have the only one in working condition. This ia a camera which you will not come across very often, but all I have seen had the crank missing, or broken. Here is mine:   MIK |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2013 18:42:50 GMT -5
Wow! Great images from 80 years ago plus a wonderful camera. Congratulations.
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Post by genazzano on Mar 28, 2013 3:46:29 GMT -5
Thanks Wayne and Photax. The QRS was a very innovative camera including the format for 35mm film. I am jealous of anyone who has one with a functional crank. In over a decade I've only seen a couple intact examples. I even considered finding a machinist who could fabrication a new one but gave up that idea when I was told by one fellow it would cost €200(!). If anyone knows of one, please let me know. I love the old rags that are still visible in the resin of the body too. The only camera ever to use such material in the pre-plastic days. Based on the fact that this resin-rags material is still solid and most cameras don't show any fractures and chips as seen in Bakelite demonstrates how good this formulation turned out to be.  Ciao! |
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Post by lloydy on Mar 28, 2013 12:17:31 GMT -5
I love that camera, the rag - resin looks wonderful.  |
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Post by Berndt on Mar 29, 2013 7:24:09 GMT -5
You found that film in your camera ? And the pictures do still look that good ... from 1933 ? Wow  |
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Post by Randy on Mar 29, 2013 8:53:55 GMT -5
Fantastic, eh?
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Post by Stephen on Mar 29, 2013 9:08:19 GMT -5
Was it the negatives that were found with the camera, or was it an un-developed film inside the camera?
in the trade I once had an Ilford colour film handed in for Processing, which worked and produced prints from the mid 1950's, showing the early London Airport before the modern developments. 30 years, approx, inside the camera and still worked.....
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Post by pompiere on Mar 29, 2013 11:33:20 GMT -5
And people thought the Yashica Samurai was unique to run the film top to bottom?
I really enjoy seeing old pictures next to the current object or landmark. It brings the object to life when you see the photo of it in the past.
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Post by genazzano on Mar 29, 2013 15:18:06 GMT -5
There were a couple rolls undeveloped and several QRS cassettes turned out to be negatives when they were opened. They were all clumped and stuck together. I sent them to a fellow up in Turin who wanted to try to recover the images and did get partial frames, though the emulsion was just too damaged. He scanned what he had and out of 6 rolls, four negatives and two undeveloped film, only a few were usable for printing. The ones shown here were found in the QRS cassettes as negatives. The few partial frames of the undeveloped film gave images and he kept them to experiment with.
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Post by Stephen on Mar 29, 2013 16:36:24 GMT -5
The Miss Cicero car in the last shot appears to be one of the entries in the Beauty Queens Pageant, there is a published shot on the net(out of copyright), of the other entries and it may even be the same car.  Stephen |
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 29, 2013 19:33:58 GMT -5
The Miss Cicero car in the last shot appears to be one of the entries in the Beauty Queens Pageant, there is a published shot on the net(out of copyright), of the other entries and it may even be the same car. Stephen Is there some law that all hats must be tilted to the right? And what keeps them from sliding off? Mickey |
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Post by genazzano on Mar 30, 2013 1:22:56 GMT -5
Yo Stephen! That is incredible... I do think it's the same car. Where can I see more?
I sent a note off to my friend to see if there were any usable images from the undeveloped film.
I have nearly 2 dozen rolls of film taken from some of the old cameras when they arrived. They are all frozen -20C in sealed containers with desiccant. One of my "gotta-do-that-someday" projects.
Also, Cicero was quite a notorious town in those days. In the last days of Prohibition, Cicero was still the home of Capone. I haven't been able to ID the church. I had hoped it was Capone's parish (St. Mary of Częstochowa on Cicero St.), but it doesn't appear to be.
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Post by Stephen on Mar 30, 2013 10:27:47 GMT -5
The shot of the girls in the Beauty Pageant is on the net, try Google image search for Chicago 1933. There are several newsreels on Utube, including the Technicolor test film they shot at the time, also some amateur 16mm silent film of the event. The Internet Archive appears to be the source of the silent films.
Stephen.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 30, 2013 13:46:19 GMT -5
The Miss Cicero car in the last shot appears to be one of the entries in the Beauty Queens Pageant, there is a published shot on the net(out of copyright), of the other entries and it may even be the same car. Stephen Is there some law that all hats must be tilted to the right? And what keeps them from sliding off? Mickey Hatpins! |
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