I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace, and revisiting all the cameras that I used for taking photographs, as opposed to collecting and displaying. I'm planning to do it in chronological order, using a different one each month.
This month I'm using the Kodak Instamatic 33, which was first made in 1968, though I think I probably got mine in 1970. The film is almost as old as the camera, dating from 1976, I bought the film for 40p in a charity shop a couple of years ago. It is made in Italy, so probably a Ferrania film, presented here as a free gift promoting the AA. Rated at ISO 80, and being over 40 years old, it would need a lot of light to get a decent image. There is only one shutter speed on the Instamatic 33, and two choices of aperture, marked by "sun" and "shade" symbols.
I was relieved not to have a completely blank film, but as expected the negatives were very thin, against age related background fog. Rescuing the images from the scanner has left some of them with an almost solarised effect. It could have been worse!
These are two consecutive frames.
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Four consecutive frames taken with the Canon Demi-C half-frame camera that I used in week 29 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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Taken with the Coronet Vogue camera in week 64 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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This camera uses a long obsolete proprietary format, which is un-perforated 35mm film on a roll with a backing paper. The image size is 3cm x 5cm, I cut down a 127 film backing paper, and spooled some fresh film onto it, luckily the frame spacing and numbering on the 127 backing paper are about right for this camera. I loaded enough film for six exposures.
The most noticable thing about the results is the poor focus and the black spots all over the images. THe focus may just be as good as it gets for this camera (there is no adjustment for anything), and the black spots I think come from dust in the bellows, which is liberally sprinkled around inside the camera every time the bellows are opened. Although I cleaned it before use, the outside of the bellows shows evidence of deterioration, and has a powdery feel to it, so I suspect the inside is the same. Nevertheless, the photos have a vintage feel to them. I developed the film in Ilfosol 3 diluted 1:14 for 8 minutes at 20 degrees.
The first year is documented in this book:
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Six clicks of the shutter using a Coronet Rapier Mark II camera in week 266 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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The film is Lomography Redscale 50-200, which I processed in Tetenal C41 chemistry.
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taken using Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim, very cheap 35mm camera with a 22mm lens
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