Speaking Of Old Cameras

thronobulax said:
Not LF, hence here in the Lounge, but ...

https://newatlas.com/collectibles/7...amera-and-motor-drive-sets-world-record-price
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Thank you very much for this. Interesting that most of these ended up being used in the Stuka dive bomber.
If one scrolls down through the narrative to the discussion of the aircraft rather than the camera, well I have a small nit to pick. Among the list of allied fighters for which the Stuka was no match, I'd remove the F6F Hellcat, a U.S. Navy fighter that saw virtually all its action in the Pacific. In its place put the P-47 Thunderbolt.

As a 12 year-old nearly 68 years ago I was fascinated with allied combat aircraft of WWII. I wasn't alone at the time.

David
 
My own Leica IIIa is 90+ years old, but the 1930s was the birth of modern film cameras, better emulsions like Ilfor Fine Grain Panchromatic, and Hypersensitive Panchromatic, now FP4 and HP5 Plus, and just as important was a radical change in exosure and processing technique.

The introduction and improvements of the Leica cameras, followed by the Contax, and later the Exacta SLR, also co-incided with the introduction of small, accurate, portable, light meters. The book that embodies the new approach that we still use today is Hans Windsich's "Die Neue Foto schule", published inthe mid 1930s, luckily also published in English as "The New Photo School", revised and updated in the 1950s as "The Manual of Modern Photography - The Technique"

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When we look at or use older cameras and lenses it is important to remember many are still capabe of being used to produce high quality results.

Ian
 
Yes indeed. Improvements seem to have two facets - advances in technical quality, like multi-coating; and greater convenience. The early Leicas, even with their squinty viewfinders and dual-range shutters were still a remarkable advance at the time. A Millennial (or is it now Gen Z?) DSLR-user would find them hopelessly clunky. They wouldn’t even be able to find the USB socket.
Although LF cameras are still seeing successive improvements, they are relatively small, compared to digital formats, where new wonders are announced daily - a camera-reviewers paradise.
The iPhone (others are available) seems to have generated a whole new kind of photography, but this isn’t the place.
 
Ian Grant said:
My own Leica IIIa is 90+ years old, but the 1930s was the birth of modern film cameras, better emulsions like Ilfor Fine Grain Panchromatic, and Hypersensitive Panchromatic, now FP4 and HP5 Plus, and just as important was a radical change in exosure and processing technique.

The introduction and improvements of the Leica cameras, followed by the Contax, and later the Exacta SLR, also co-incided with the introduction of small, accurate, portable, light meters. The book that embodies the new approach that we still use today is Hans Windsich's "Die Neue Foto schule", published inthe mid 1930s, luckily also published in English as "The New Photo School", revised and updated in the 1950s as "The Manual of Modern Photography - The Technique"

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When we look at or use older cameras and lenses it is important to remember many are still capabe of being used to produce high quality results.

Ian
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Thanks for that @Ian Grant. I've just found a copy of this for $18 USD including shipping. Claimed to be in very good condition.
 
As a book, look at the adverts, the best available camera equipment for miniature formats all German, but there were no alternatives from anywhere else, and loads of different Gossen meter . . . . . . . .

I have 3 or 4 copies, the first iI bought was from 1944 in Germn, amazing to think it was being reprinted as Germany was losing WWII

Ian
 
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