@IneptOrange that is one of the best comments I've ever had :-)

Imagine how much film you’d need for about 30 seconds of video, but it’d be sooooo worth it

Hey Lindsay, that's great news. Glad I could help a fellow writer :-)

Woah this is so random, that's why I'm here too!

Cool

@@gracemorrison2555 Wow me too!

Samee 😭😭

Using old cameras does start to get addictive lol

Thanks a lot!

I hope it worked

Glad you liked it Mark. There's no reason why you can't go back and take Black&white film again. My other videos in the film photo series show just how easy it is to develop black &white film and scan the negatives. I don't have a darkroom, just a developing tank, some cheap coffee and a cheap (but top of the line) scanner. Film cameras are so cheap and film is readily available online if you don't have a specialist camera store nearby. :-)

Thank you! Cheers!

I have not done a plate camera video yet. I am looking for a camera to use though

Thanks for such a positive comment pmaxjr :-)

Hopefully the holes can be repaired otherwise a new set of bellows might be expensive. Good luck

I, too, have my grandfather’s camera. I have it displayed in my Secretary. I just looked at it to see which model. It’s the A-116. That’s a cool idea I’m going to try. They’re beautiful photos.

Some people have used Liquid Electrical Tape from the hardware store to repair bellows. Use a toothpick. Others report success with a repair product used to fix holes in SCUBA diver's Neoprene suits.

Awesome, get using it 😀

You should give one a try Donald, they are great fun

@@GavinParsons I will try one out! And thanks for the Caffenoll Recipes! You have a lovely kitchen, Too.

It's a lovely camea to use, just take your time and expect a learning curve with it at first. The most important I found was to put a roll of film through to count how many turns per picture.

@@GavinParsons Hello, Mr. Parsons, and thank you for the encouragement! I'm just old enough to have taken a photography class in school and learned basic photography - including learning not to drink any of the chemicals in the darkroom. (You'd be surprised how many beginners make this mistake! ;) I remember loading film, sprocket holes, sending film off for processing, and hoping what came back was good. So, this will be fun. Next year, I'll be visiting the Ansel Adams home in Carmel, California. It would be wonderful to pull out my vintage No.3A Autographic and say, "Does anyone remember these? It looks like a brick, but it can take photographs!" I'll tell you how my experiments turn out. Question: at 1:50 you mention adding aluminium strips. If you could share their specifications with me, it would save me a lot of work, time, and possibly a lot of harsh language. Subscribed? I most certainly am!

Hey TheStockwell thanks for such a positive comment. I’d love to visit Ansel Adams’ home and where he worked. It’s on my bucket list. I once took a 100 year old Kodak No.2 to the first world war battlefields and got questioned a lot about it. It was a trip made more special by using a camera from the same era. Ok the strips. The size depends on the camera as Kodak made their models in various sizes. So I make the strips from thin aluminium. I measure the length and cut. The width is the most important. You need to make the gap between the strips exactly the size of a 120film strip so the film doesn’t wander or pinch.. The secret is to measure, measure again and measure again. Clamp the strips and test with a film before glueing as once glued there’s no going back. Next stick down with an epoxy glue and use some clamps to ensure a good fix. When it’s glued paint the strips with matt black paint. Good luck, but be prepared to get obsessed with using the camera 😀

@@GavinParsons My upcoming trip to the Adams house is a fluke. His home and studio are not a museum, although his equipment it as he left it. His son and daughter-in-law live there. It's their home and not open to the public - unless you make some sort of arrangement, which people do. A friend of mine is related to people who were friends of Adams. My friend has been asked to document materials his family sent to Ansel and his wife. That's where I come in. I'll be traveling to photograph and scan a few boxes (!) of family items - and to hang out with Micheal Adams and his wife. It'll be a thrill and an adventure. Showing up with a working Kodak No.3A Autographic should make it a very Old School week. I'll tell them you said "Hello!" I've ordered the 120 to 122 adapters, six rolls of 120 film (black and white, of course), and I'm headed to eBay to buy a vintage - but functioning - light meter. My email address is koloman@pacbell.net - email is easier to use than these tiny KZfaq comment boxes. You've probably seen it, but here's a video of Micheal Adams giving a tour of the home: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8Ccotl-1drOqYU.html Thank you for your support. In a month or so, I'll be able to tell you how the camera performs. Have a great 2019!

Thank you :-)

Thanks I really love using it. With everything so basic it really makes you think about photography. It's a perfect way to learn what everything on a modern camera is really doing. I am going to use it more often and vlog about it.

Hey Jack, good to hear from you. Glad you are finding my channel useful and I hope my past and future videos will be helpful. If you have any questions or information you'd like to know, let me know and I'll try and make a video about it.

@@GavinParsons Would it be possible to record a video all about lenses, from one end of the spectrum to another that would be great. No pressure

You may have to be a bit more specific. What would you like to know?

Thanks Goriza it's a fun camera to use.

Sounds like a fun project. I love using this old camera.

I'll try, but I may not be around in 100 years lol

They are fun to use and give a completely different style of image to modern cameras

I fully agree Arcanum

I've always wanted a larger negative folding camera. Something larger than 6x9. There were so many film sizes that were dropped.

Awesome, I hope you get to use it

You must be at least 121 years old, then?

Check the bellows and around the edge of the film back for holes where light can leak in.

The camera sounds like a Box brownie made by Kodak. They were very simple cameras and many still work to this day. I used one for a little project a couple of years ago and it worked fine. I doubt most modern DSLRs will work in 100 years and even if they did the technology to read the RAW files and even jpegs I doubt will exist.

Hey Luis, congratulations on buying a piece of photographic history. If you don't have the window, then I would recommend sacrificing a film or two and practising loading film and working out how many turns you need. Each model will be slightly different. My camera creates a big image, others aren't so big so don't need so many turns. I used some tape and wrote on it what I needed to do and stuck it on the camera back. You can use one film and rewind it so you get used to working the camera. Good luck :-)

@Gavin Parsons thank you for your reply. Yeah I need to use a dummy film and with the camera back open I can mark on the film paper with a pen and counting hiw many turns until the next frame. I am thinking to use 120 film and maybe glass plates.

That's a lot of money for a roll of film, but good to know. Thanks

Thanks for the comment Luis

That could be fungus. You could trying gently cleaning it, but you may have to get a new lens.

Do you have exactly the same camera? I only ask as the Junior is larger than the normal No.3A (don't ask me why as I have no idea), and so the measurements will be different.

You'll be hard pushed to find anyone to repair it, it may need to give it a go yourself.

I took the camera to a 3D printing company who made them to measure. As most cameras are different and film spools have different ends its not easy to show what I mean, but I am going to do an indepth blog post soon.

@@GavinParsons thank you!

Just make sure the bellows are light tight Arthur, cameras this old can have worn bellows.

Thank you, I will, it would look nice sitting on a shelf too.

Even larger! The negatives make a contact print exactly the size of a legal US Postal Post Card, 4.25" x 6.75".

Thanks. For portraits there is a close up filter, I am still looking for one lol.

Thanks Terry, I can feel a new purchase coming on :-)

Hi William, yes you are right, it is 122 film. I have several old cameras and some take 620 and I got muddled up with the sizes. I still had to make the spacers as 122 film is significantly wider than 120 (or 620 for that matter). Thanks for spotting it :-)

No, Kodak used 622 film. Smaller spool diameter, all metal spool inside of wooden inner core. I have processed hundred of rolls of 622 for a late photographer who photographed funeral portraits (people in caskets). I worked at a commercial photo lab for over 5 years, and I've seen every size and brand of B&W film ever sold. Kodak camera's roll films all begin with "6" in the film size, and European and many other brands of roll film cameras used film that began with the number "1". Kodak roll film cameras all have the correct film size inside the back in yellow numbers. The AutoGraph line of Kodak cameras are very rare because the lenses have been taken for use as soft-focus portrait lenses for Hasselblads, Mamiya RB's and RZ's, Fuji GX's and other 120 cameras. Wide open the four element Ektar of three element Ektanar makes a beautiful portrait lens. The exception to the 6 and 1 rule was the Kodak Bantam 828.

correction to the correction is in order. A #3 Autographic JUNIOR uses 616 size film, smaller than the post card size negative of 122/622 for the #1 AutoGraphic Special. Mr Gregg had both.

@@Walkercolt1 yeah I'm really into taking old lenses off of cameras and using them on mirrorless. You can do a lot if you have some bellows extension tubes, even vacuum tubes. You just need to make sure you have some air so you don't get any suction on the sensor

I love using this camera, but don't get much time to at the moment. If it is exactly the same camera you can use 120 film in it, but you need the spacers. I got mine 3d printed.

Hi Nicole, Unfortunately it wouldn't be worth me telling you as the models are all different sizes, so you'll have to measure your camera for both the metal strips and spacers. Sorry

I buy mine either online (ebay) or mostly in a local photographic shop. Some places still have good camera shops, although they are harder to find.

@@GavinParsons hey, thank you for the video. I have brought one Kodak Junior I (1954) yesterday. I am so lost. What could be the best ISO for these cameras? High ISO is better?

Hi Michael, Is the camera exactly the same? I only ask as there are so many models and they are all different.

@@GavinParsons it’s the same model!

Hi @GavinParsons I’m also interested in the size of the aluminium strips to convert my great grandfathers No. 3-A Kodak Jr. to 120 film. Camera is identical - and so grateful to find your clip.

They'll be a trick Ben. Don't force it. Mine has a pinch lock on the bellows rail. Not sure about the A130, but have a look around. One of my Kodaks took me two weeks to open until I found the secret button.

@@GavinParsons Thanks! I ended up using a dab of WD-40 and the camera slid back in the box.

How did you open the lens? Some shutters have a "T" or "B" setting. If your shutter is set to one of those, click the shutter release a second time to see if it closes.

@@AtlantaTerry yeah I got it

The flap is just for the autographic pen. However, if you don't have it you'll need a sacrificial film or two to work out how many turns you need to work through the film. Good luck

Do you mean the shutter release? If so, then no you should be able to take a picture without one.

How old is your Voigtlander?

@@GavinParsons I believe it is from the 1930s.

@@trondsi Do you still use it?

@@GavinParsons Occasionally yes. I have to be careful to avoid double exposures though.

@@trondsi yes same here. But I do enjoy the work it takes to get an image

Hi there. I'm sorry I no longer have the 3D printer file as it was on an old computer that died. All I did was take my favourite film (Ilford FP4) and the camera to a 3D printers and they created the spacers for me, so you shouldn't have too much problem.

@@GavinParsons Thanks Gavin...easy enough.

You can clean it

@@GavinParsons oh I can I hope I find more information on how also do you know we're I could find reproduction film

@@spitfireraf8646 Sadly any film that will fit is probably long out of date. You're best bet is to do what I did and get some spacers to allow 120 film (Medium format film) to fit. This is readily available.

@@GavinParsons ok thanks I'll look for tutorials on this a other question is this do able to all cameras or just some

Hi Terry, I had them specially made at a 3D printing company. They took the camera and a film spool and created them, so I don't have any drawings or anything like that sorry

eBay now sell adapters for 122 to 120 film for this camera, check it out :)

Great news, I hope you have fun using it :-)

Hi Foxglove, There's no way I can get the right sized film for this Kodak (which I believe was actually made in Canada), so to use it I had to make modifications. And it would be a shame to resign this beautiful camera to a shelf.