[olavf]

I already promised the wife I’d be doing no such thing. Besides, the garage is half-full of my mini-studio already…

[olavf]

http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?AgfaIsolette.html~mainFrame

Looks like it takes 120 film. B&H photo and a host of other places sell that. You can even buy stuff on Amazon, in color or B&W.

B&H also sells mailers for processing. ~$17USD, and I’d assume someplace across the pond does the same.
/Been researching 120 film for the Brownie I bought the other weekend.

[olavf]

Sweet. Thanks.

[olavf]

Cool. I was wondering what this was going to entail. I’m presuming this is a best-of-three then, and not a one shot?

[olavf]

D’oh!

I feel your collective pain. I fear mine will probably be b-sides this week due to time/weather/personal crap 😛 We don’t even have a friggin’ observatory in this town :/

[olavf]

I have no luck with deer. Dams were much easier.

The one (well, three) deer I used this week constitute the only picture from that day I actually liked. I definitely need a longer lens :/

[olavf]

I dunno… the ‘dental dam’ made me LOL, Elsinore

[olavf]

The actual case is leather-covered cardboard, with a wood film box. Don’t think I want to do any drilling :/

[olavf]

Ah, misunderstood what you were referring to.

I’m going to have to ponder that, since I’ve got no way of actually attaching the camera to the tripod. I suppose that if I fitted a stud to a board, and attached that to a modern tripod that could work…

[olavf]

Number 5 would be Sunday, or so, after the votes are all tallied…

[olavf]

That’s good to know. B&H also sells Rollei which I might lean towards then.

I was thinking about the tripod because one of the things I want to try is some old-timey snaps in the studio – so it’s decent lighting but definitely not ‘outdoors’. I was gonna use ISO 100 in there though.

I’ll have to poke around the Home Despot and see what they have in bushings – that’s a good idea, thanks 🙂

[olavf]

Were it my call to make, I’d think that locks that are part of a dam would be fine – but one that was just sitting out on it’s lonesome in a canal would be iffy.

NoBigDeal, I hear ya. I think I got one decent deer shot that wasn’t along the lines of ‘deer waaaaaay over there in the field, mocking me’. Or just picking the absolute worst lighting conditions to hang out in – lovely dappled shade or just badly backlit :/

[olavf]

Yeah, the shutter and the other settings seem to be all good. I even figured out how to set it in ‘bulb’ mode (shutter stays open until I close it). The finders are, as you say pretty hazy, but I haven’t gone and cleaned the dust off it either, so there may be some improvement to be had. I can at least see well enough to center the subject in good lighting…

The film speed was definitely something I was wondering about. I was going to get some 100, but I’ll lean towards the 25, which seems readily available too, or maybe try a roll of both, just for kicks.

Any ideas on tripods? I’m assuming the originals would have been a a wooden thing like a modern tripod with a platform on top… I’m guessing that’s something I’m going to have to scratch-build though.

[olavf]

Can’t even buy the high school girls a Coke anymore. sheesh.

/but seriously, I want to take this thing through the rounds. Might even consider starting a Farktography-brownie project once I’ve verified that it works.

[olavf]

I don’t know about where you live, but I’d go to jail for that.

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