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First roll results from "new Agfa Isolette I"
Glendon wrote:
Hmmm, I probably should have come clean. I am fooling around with 6x12...obtained by running 120 film in an old 616 Kodak. Oddball I know, but interesting. I've been thinking of doing something similar. Just using respooled 70mm film. What has been holding me back is the worries about the lenses on those old 116/616 cameras. Just how good/bad are they? Nick |
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First roll results from "new Agfa Isolette I"
"Nick Zentena" wrote in message ... Glendon wrote: Hmmm, I probably should have come clean. I am fooling around with 6x12...obtained by running 120 film in an old 616 Kodak. Oddball I know, but interesting. I've been thinking of doing something similar. Just using respooled 70mm film. What has been holding me back is the worries about the lenses on those old 116/616 cameras. Just how good/bad are they? Nick I think they vary quite a bit, with some of the basic cameras having some basic lenses. This site has some useful info on Kodak lenses: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~b-wallen/...dak_index2.htm The general consensus on that and similar sites is that the better Kodak lenses are surprisingly good. I have a late model Monitor 616....it was probably at the top of the 616 line....the Regent might have been a better Kodak camera of the time, with a German lens, but I don't think it was made in 616 format. My Monitor has a 4 element ,uncoated Anastigmat lens...just don't know how good it is at the moment...will be in a better position to comment when I have run a few rolls through....but I'm hopeful! In contrast, some of the Junior 616 models look to have some pretty basic lenses. I thought about 70mm film...but where do you get backing paper and spools? Also, I generally have a variety of 120 film on hand at any time and can pick what I want to load....respooling 70mm means a bulk supply of film of the one specification, no? |
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