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Venus Transit Vintage Camera Help
Hello Everyone
I am a graduate student at the Space Studies program at University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. I am doing a project on historical Venus Transit photographic techniques. Venus Transit is an event where Venus comes in between the sun and the earth where you see the black dot of venus moving across the sun's disk over a period of 6 hours. This even is very rare and the last one happened in 1882. That time photography was just developing and images very obtained with plate cameras. The same event takes place again this June and photography has undergone a radical change since 1882. I am planning to repeat some of the historical obseravtions done with Silver Gelatin Dry Plate Process cameras in 1882 and compare them with current high speed digital imagers. I dont have much funding to do this project so I am looking for any advice from you as to how I can go about finding a camera from the 1880s for this project...is there any place where I can get them at a low price or get them on loan. Any words of wisodm will be appreciated. clear skies Vishnu |
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Venus Transit Vintage Camera Help
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Venus Transit Vintage Camera Help Any words of wisodm will be appreciated. What did a google search show up? Bob AZ |
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Venus Transit Vintage Camera Help
Vishnu wrote:
I dont have much funding to do this project so I am looking for any advice from you as to how I can go about finding a camera from the 1880s for this project...is there any place where I can get them at a low price or get them on loan. Why do you need an 1880's camera? A modern view camera isn't very different then one from 1880. Somebody can correct me but the main difference will be the change to standard backs. The bigger issue is the glass plates. Are you going to coat your own? Or do you have a source? I think Kodak has stopped making them. Even if they did make them the current ones would be much faster and have a different colour response then anything used in 1880. The Soviet view cameras that are often sold on Ebay might actually be setup for glass plates. I know they don't use standard backs. They often sell for not much money and when you're done you can likely resell it for most of the cost. The cameras usually come with a lens. It's a Tessar I think so it's more modern then 1880. I'd suggest asking over in rec.photo.equipment.large-format. Nick |
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