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Old July 17th 04, 11:21 PM
Paul Friday
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This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here.

I have a Balda folding camera that must date from the mid-40s or
earlier. My Father in Law liberated it from a Japanese soldier somewhere
in East Asia during WW2. (at the point of a gun, but that was normal for
the time)
It takes vertical 6x4.5 on 12- roll film. It does it with style and with
accuracy. I have used it with a hand-held meter and rangefinder to
deliver cracking portraits and landscapes. Isn't it remarkable what even
simple kit will do, providing the negative is large enough?
Eat my dust, digital.

And for bonus points: what was a German camera doing in East Asia in the
hands of a Japanese soldier during WW2?

If I could only bottle the smell of the leather case, I would be a rich
man.

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Old July 23rd 04, 05:15 AM
William Earl Haskell
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Paul Friday wrote:

This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here.


Digital lacks detail, certainly, and I seriously doubt it will show anything
like the persistance and long-term viewability of film.

Nifty camera ya got there, BTW. There was actually quite a lot of back &
forth between Germany & Japan through the war, via submarine, and a camera
or so could be easily be brought back from a visit to the Atlantic.
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Old July 23rd 04, 05:15 AM
William Earl Haskell
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Default Digital lacks soul

Paul Friday wrote:

This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here.


Digital lacks detail, certainly, and I seriously doubt it will show anything
like the persistance and long-term viewability of film.

Nifty camera ya got there, BTW. There was actually quite a lot of back &
forth between Germany & Japan through the war, via submarine, and a camera
or so could be easily be brought back from a visit to the Atlantic.
 




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