Wow, thank you!

film cameras are simply just sizes of holes paired up with time a window opens so im not that surprised

Your welcome 🙏🏻 , Jamie has been doing a lot of the research into the cameras to help, she met my father about a year before he died. And likes the cameras so win, win.

I did a video on the Super Ikonta, i loved it, by far the best camera or lens in this series

My brother had a b and white . dark room. With enlarger, 3 chemicals and sink and dryer.i wish I still had it all

Cheers

Ill be 39 in two weeks, lets hope your right.

olitography 39, wish I was that young again: I’m heading for 70 and don’t feel a day over 90

I do too

Your great grandparents

@@olitography - Actually no, my grandparents where actually Victorians!

Amazing, thank you

Glad you liked it!

I didn't close it between rolls and wound the slack out, I put it down to early tech, the Brownie has those massive corners which create tension, but most cameras have some kind of tensioner, I wondered if I got the film loaded right.

@@olitography Thank you, I will find out if I have the same issue once I develop my film. Have you experimented with cut paper instead of film?

It's not shit, it's a frame-capturing time machine, and a piece of history.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much!

@@olitography If you don't mind me asking, do you borrow thse cameras or are they in a collection of yours?

@@thechickenrebellion From a collection my father and I acquired, I made a video about it, I think its called returning vintage cameras in 2020, wait I can link it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asyPgtZklqmvgYE.html

Thank Teddy, really appreciate your words

Why thank you sir, hope your keeping ok?

You should try using it, I’m going to making a spook adapter with tensioner, to solve the tension issue. But aside from that they are great.

@@olitography Okay so I'm looking at the camera now and it says Kodak No.1 Pocket Folding Camera Patent April 21, 1908 - August 31, 1909. The bellows are not the same color as your's in the video. It's a dark brown color, but the exact same lens and view finder. Mine is the Model D, correct?

I can’t add a picture here but it could be a later 1910+ version. Check the lens, is it the automatic or one with shutter speed settings?

olitography it has the shutter speeds

@@olitography The lens is identical to the one you're using in the video. Everything is identical except the color of the bellows, which as I said is dark brown in color.

Thank you! Cheers!

That manual was written before shutter speeds were invented. 🤔

coud I borrow it?

I’m finding pre 1920s bellows to very good compared to later cloth ones.

Nope nobody noticed, not even me, good spot

Awesome, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you

I tried to find some when we I made the video, but making it would be quite involved

we used the ir bulb and receiver from a old tv or VHS player, Wired into a scope, the transmitter in the back of the camera and the sensor on the other side of lens. I then would cycle the shutter, this gave us a step on the screen with each grid square accounting for x number of m/s, (you just scale it on the scope to suit) it’s not repeatable fast enough to give a constant reading, so we filmed it and took a freeze frame of the footage you can then use the grid scale to work out how long the shutter let the light in. There was no formula, just a chart found via google , otherwise you can work out x m/s as a 1000th of a second.. ie 1 m/s 1000th 2 m/s 500th and 1/250th 4 m/s and so on The chart is useful because it notes the tolerances www.flutotscamerarepair.com/Shutterspeed.htm You can also do this using a microphone but the older cameras move in one sweep rather than 2

Thanks, I did manage to get some for another camera, but will pop into Chicago next time I’m there.

Card won’t scratch, it’s been fine for me

I think there is a bit in that video if not it’s the camera with the red bellows video, we’re we measured the shutter speeds on a scope. So they should be in there. What the iris settings are, are in there as well. Don’t use time that’s like bulb. The third thing you can do is use ND filters for more control. Though I’m in the Uk so there is rarely enough light. It’s worth doing the obvious lens cleans and bellows check. Aside from that film as a good amount of latitude and you might be surprised by what you get back.

I love them but they dont love me

It’s a while ago, I think it was a lamp one end a light sensor and the other. With the camera shutter between

Changing the film size will not affect focus. You have to change the distance between film plane and lens for that happen.

@@olitography Yes of course. But when you put a mask to make the film gate smaller, you must put it over the existing gate. The mask must have same rigidity, what makes it at list 0,5mm thick, that’s why it shifts the focus distance. I don’t have a 3D printer; I make it out of cardboard. I use the hyperfocal distance to archive the focus, but knowing it is not in a proper focus distance. Great videos you make mate, love it.

@@rolandofuret2658 slack in the film accounts for a greater margin of error than 0.5mm, acceptable focus requires way more movement than that, your images were not out of focus for this reason. My money is on the lens being in the wrong place at the other end of the bellows.

@@olitography Thank you 😀

It stayed by itself, it gets held in place by the film

@@olitography Thanks for answering.😁

Really, would you be able to pass on the Info

There are quite digital camera videos here as well, in lock down we shot a bunch of them, they just got buried

I do t have that camera anymore but I could try 3d printing insta bodies for the old cameras

It’s worth googling the serial number

I just used a Cocarrete in Iceland will be the last video of the series

1909 was in the 20th century.