For those looking to shoot with vintage 620 film cameras, you should know that 620 is identical to 120 roll film...except for the fact that the spool is slightly different. This video shows you how to roll 120 film onto 620 spools.
620 / 120 film on Wikipedia "The 620 format was introduced by Kodak in 1931 as an intended alternative to 120. Although mostly used by Kodak cameras, it became very popular. The 620 format is essentially the same film on a thinner and narrower all-metal spool" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_film
above: 620 film images shot by listeners of The Film Photography Project Internet Radio Show.
Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Project's Internet Radio Show is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Produced in the United States, the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes and direct stream from www.filmphotographypodcast.com
Ryan Galbraith was the winner of Trip 35 camera giveaway on The Film Photography Podcast (Internet Radio Show). The camera was donated to the show by fellow Trip 35 shooter Ian Cook. Trip 35 camera images by Ryan.
Ryan Galbraith is a professional photographer based Salt Lake City, Utah specializing in weddings, portraits, photojournalism and Black and White film photography.
The Trip 35 is a 35mm compact camera, manufactured by Olympus. It was introduced in 1967 and discontinued, after a lengthy production run, in 1984. The Trip name was a reference to its intended market — people who wanted a compact, functional camera for holidays. During the 1970s it was the subject of an advertising campaign that featured popular British photographer David Bailey. Over ten million units were sold." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Trip_35
Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Podcast is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Hosts Michael Raso and Duane Polcou enthusiastically dissect and debate the pros-and-cons of film formats, do-it-yourself techniques, digital technologies, and vintage and contemporary cameras and accessories in a thorough, informative and casual manner. Regular features include Camera tests and reviews, “book of the month”, interviews, a listener-generated Q&A, and film-related giveaways.
Produced in the United States, the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes and direct stream from www.filmphotographypodcast.com
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Mat Marrash's shot of The Impossible Project space in NYC - "tagged" as "The Impossible Project"
blog by Michael Raso
A day doesn't go by when I'm not looking up info "The Google" about vintage cameras and no doubt I wouldn't get too far if folks didn't "tag" their articles or images.
We're covered "tagging" before but IT'S SO IMPORTANT that it can't be covered enough!
Here's a video clip about "tags" from Epiosode 30 / March 15 Film Photography Podcast.
Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Podcast is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Hosts Michael Raso and Duane Polcou enthusiastically dissect and debate the pros-and-cons of film formats, do-it-yourself techniques, digital technologies, and vintage and contemporary cameras and accessories in a thorough, informative and casual manner. Regular features include Camera tests and reviews, “book of the month”, interviews, a listener-generated Q&A, and film-related giveaways.
Produced in the United States, the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes and direct stream from http://www.filmphotographypodcast.com
8x10 film photography, Kodak Tourist II Camera, 620 Film, get your work seen…by tagging, book of the month, darkroom tips, camera giveaways and more! Hosted by Michael Raso with Mat Marrash and John Fedele
FPP welcomes back guest co-host Mat Marrash Mat joins FPP in March. A FPP listener, film shooter and lifetime student of photography as well as an all-around tech junkie, Mat is located in Northwest Ohio. Mat's main gig is commercial photography that includes portraiture, sports, and photojournalistic candids.
Pocket Light Meter for the iPhone! iPhone POCKET LIGHT METER
FPP listener Vladislav Vyshemirsky invented the Pocket Light Meter for your iPhone. Download it….it’s FREE!
Stephen M. Schaub’s FIGITAL REVOLUTION “FIGITAL” stands for the dynamic fusion of film and digital photographic technologies. The Figital Revolution transcends self-serving industry hype and old-fart conservatism to get at the real issues photographers face today: how did we get here? Is digital all it’s cracked up to be? Why is film on life support? How can photographers create a sustainable art? Why do most photo magazines suck? The Figital Revolution is about all that and more.
GET YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY NOTICED….by TAGGING! Alright, so you've got a camera, you're taking nice pictures, and now you'd like to have the rest of the world have a look at your work. What now?
620 FILM PHOTOGRAPHY “620 roll film, introduced by Kodak in 1932 and discontinued in 1995[1], is basically the same as 120 roll film; it has the same width and length. The only difference is the spool which holds the film, in case of the 620 roll the core of the spool and the end flanges are smaller than that of the 120 roll.” http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/620_film
Respooling 120 film onto 620 film spools! http://www.getnet.net/~gstewart/respool.htm
KODAK Tourist II 620 FILM CAMERA “The Kodak Tourists were the last in a long line of American made folding roll film cameras from Eastman Kodak. The Tourist II, introduced in May of 1951, features a redesigned top cover and a new viewfinder, which contains frame lines for the optional 828 roll film adapter. Production was discontinued in July of 1958. The Tourists use 620 film making 8 2¼×3¼ exposures. The use of 828 roll film for 8 28×40mm exposures was an option. The Tourist's most unusual feature is its back; through the use of cleverly engineered latches, it can be opened on the left side, right side, or removed completely. http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kodak_Tourist
below: Images shot with the Kodak Tourist II camera
BOOK OF THE MONTH "A Kind of Rapture" by Robert Bergman brings together a selection of photos from Bergman's two-year travels by car through the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. 51 color photos.”
Every now and then, the art world offers up an unlikely story, and Robert Bergman's is one of them. He was born in New Orleans and raised mostly in Minneapolis. He began taking and developing snapshots at age 6, and save for a few teenage years he has strived to be a great photographer-artist ever since. But he has remained an out-of-step one, isolated from contemporary tastes, a cult figure to the few who have seen his work in person or in a 1998 book. The 65-year-old photographer went his own way over the past four decades, never selling a work until two years ago, but he nevertheless is about to burst onto the scene with two museum exhibitions, and next month he will have his first show at a commercial gallery, Yossi Milo in Chelsea, New York City. —From The Wall Street Journal review by JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI
DARKROOM TIPS: Using KODAK XTOL DEVELOPER “KODAK PROFESSIONAL XTOL Developer is a two-part powder developer for processing Kodak and other manufacturers’ normally exposed, pushed, or pulled black-and-white films. It offers full emulsion speed and easy mixing, and can be used as both a developer and a replenisher in a variety of equipment, from small tanks (8 to 64 fluidounces), trays, or rotary tubes to high-volume processors.” - http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/j109/j109.pdf
8x10 FILM PHOTOGRAPHY The term of art "Large Format" refers to film and camera formats that generally use sheet film in sizes equal to or larger than 4 inches by 5 inches (or 9x12 cm). (Although there are some view cameras in sizes smaller than 4x5 inches, or 6x9cm). Large Format distinguishes large cameras 4x5, 5x7, 4x10 and 8 x10 inches, from medium format cameras and film (6x6, 6x7, 6x8, 6x9cm roll film cameras) and from small format cameras of 35mm, 110 and smaller film sizes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format_%28photography%29
below: Mat setting up his Eastman Commercial B 8x10 camera
Below: images shot by Mat Marrash on the Eastman Commercial B 8x10 camera
Don’t forget…each month we give away vintage cameras and film! Tune in to the show.
FPP guys John Fedele and Michael Raso shot on Polaroid 804 8x10 film by Mat Marrash
Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Podcast is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Hosts Michael Raso and Duane Polcou enthusiastically dissect and debate the pros-and-cons of film formats, do-it-yourself techniques, digital technologies, and vintage and contemporary cameras and accessories in a thorough, informative and casual manner. Regular features include Camera tests and reviews, “book of the month”, interviews, a listener-generated Q&A, and film-related giveaways.
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blog by Michael Raso When I read Brian Moore's guest blog on the Canon T50 camera my curiosity was piqued. I've been shooting with the Canon AE-1 Program camera since 1982 and since then, many other models using the Canon arsenal of FD lenses. I've simply ignored the 1983 T50 - mostly because the camera is completely automatic. I couldn't resist so I purchased not one but two T50 cameras on e-bay here in the states.
The manual focus Canon T50 is most likely the simplest camera in the FD arsenal. Program - Off - Battery Check are the only top controls. No "B" bulb, no PC flash input, no cable-release input. Turning the FD lens from "A" Automatic to f-stops switches the camera to 1/60th sec. This gives you the (limited choice) option of going manual and allowing the use of off-brand flashes.
The T50 is simplistic joy - allowing me to concentrate on my shots and leaving the exposure chores to the camera. As an all-manual photo guy - I must admit, it was difficult giving up the control of shutter and aperture, but the results were more than pleasing.
below: Canon T50 test shots - Butler, NJ USA
Canon designed the 244T flash specifically for use with the T50. While other flashes work just fine, the Canon 244T performed the best. below: Canon T50 Flash Tests
Image using the Canon 177A Flash
Image using the Starblitz Pro-5000 GTZ-Twin flash
Image using the Canon 244T Flash
Film Photography Podcast listener and contributor Brian Moore's night photography using the T50 inspired me to venture out at night and try my luck at some night shots. Pretty pleasing results considering the T50 shutter is limited to a 2 second exposure.
I host the Film Photography Podcast Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Podcast is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Hosts Michael Raso and Duane Polcou enthusiastically dissect and debate the pros-and-cons of film formats, do-it-yourself techniques, digital technologies, and vintage and contemporary cameras and accessories in a thorough, informative and casual manner. Regular features include Camera tests and reviews, “book of the month”, interviews, a listener-generated Q&A, and film-related giveaways.
Produced in the United States, the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes and direct stream from http://www.filmphotographypodcast.com
Canon T50 camera, Loading your 35mm camera, Kodak Technical Pan film, Darkroom Tips, Film / Camera Giveaways and more! Hosted by Michael Raso with Mat Marrash and John Fedele
the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes, Zune, Stitcher, download and direct stream from http://www.filmphotographypodcast.com
FPP welcomes guest host Mat Marrash Mat joins FPP in March. A FPP listener, film shooter and lifetime student of photography as well as an all-around tech junkie, Mat is located in Northwest Ohio. Mat's main gig is commercial photography that includes portraiture, sports, and photojournalistic candids. Welcome Mat!
Kodak introduces Professional Portra 160 When Kodak announced the new Professional Portra 160 film, fellow photographer and Film Photographer Podcast listener Tony Kwong was kind enough to put together the score card.
the Kodak film line up:
Ektar 100 in 135, 120, 4x5, 8x10 Portra 160 in 135, 120/220, 4x5, 8x10 Portra 400 in 135, 120/220, 4x5, 8x10 Portra 800 in 135, 120
Kodak transparency films
Ektachrome E100G in 135 single; 120 5pk, single. Ektachrome E100VS in 135 single; 120 5pk, single Ektachrome E200 in 135 36ex EliteChrome 100 in 135 36ex EliteChrome 200 in 135 36ex
Kodak consumer color print films
Kodak Gold 100 in 24ex single Kodak 200 Gold or Bright Sun in 4pk (24exp); 36ex, 24ex single Kodak Ultra Max 400 in 5 pk (24ex); 4 pack (24exp); 36ex, 24ex, 12ex single Kodak Ultra Max 800 in 5 pk (24ex); 24exp single Kodak BW400CN (c41 B&W) in 135 3pk (24exp); 24ex single
Kodak Advantax 200 APS 3pk (25ex), 3pk+1 (25exp), single Kodak Advantax 400 APS 3pk (25ex), single
Michelle Bates – 20 Years of Toying with Creativity Michelle has been a passionate photographer since she was young, and learned her way around a camera in 1991 at the Maine Photographic Workshops, where she first discovered the Holga. Since then, Michelle has shown work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel, and in group shows around the US, Italy, Germany & Thailand.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, and Marlon Brando broke his jaw. The story of notorious, reviled paparazzo Ron Galella opens a Pandora's Box of issues from right to privacy, freedom of the press and the ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship.
Polaroid Pack Film – Which Camera?
"It's called peel-apart because after you pull it from the camera, you wait some time for the print to develop and you peel off the top paper to see your print."
The 1983 Canon T50 Camera “The Canon T50, introduced in March 1983 and discontinued in December 1989, was the first in Canon's new T series of 35mm single-lens reflex cameras compatible with Canon's FD lens mount. SLR sales were falling in 1983 from the market's 1981 peak, and Canon chose to try greater automation to revive sales and remain competitive.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_T50
Above: Night Photography using the Canon T50 in automatic mode
Film Photography Podcast's recommended Book of the Month - Photography by Barbara London – “A picture tells a thousand stories, but the one it doesn't tell is how the shot was made. Barbara London and John Upton's Photography is an all-inclusive look at the craft of photography. This book will help any amateur move up a few notches, and it serves as a refresher course for professionals as well.”
Kodak Technical Pan FPP super friend Nano_Burger spooled 29 rolls of 36exp Kodak Technical Pan (asa 25) and donated them to The Film Photography Podcast.
On March 8, 2011 a thread will appear in out Film Photography Podcast Group called Kodak Technical Pan (9am est) - the first 29 folks that post in the group will win one of the 29 rolls.
"Technical Pan was an almost panchromatic black and white film produced by Kodak. “While it could reproduce the visible light spectrum, it leaned to the red and so unfiltered outdoor shots would render blues, most notably the sky, with additional darkening and reds with some lightening. These unique characteristics have not been replicated. It was generally used as a very slow film, rated at ASA 25 or even 16, although it could be rated at up to ASA 320 with a distinct loss of tonal range and a bunching of shadow and highlight detail. This film had unmatched fine grain, especially when rated at a low speed, and made excellent enlargements while preserving fine details. Kodak stopped selling it in 2004. It has not been replaced by a film (from any manufacturer) with its exceptional characteristics.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Pan
Don’t forget…each month we give away vintage cameras and film! Tune in to the show.
Launched in October of 2009, the Film Photography Podcast is a 90 minute, bi-weekly Internet radio program, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the experienced and aspiring photographer using film as a medium. Hosts Michael Raso and Duane Polcou enthusiastically dissect and debate the pros-and-cons of film formats, do-it-yourself techniques, digital technologies, and vintage and contemporary cameras and accessories in a thorough, informative and casual manner. Regular features include Camera tests and reviews, “book of the month”, interviews, a listener-generated Q&A, and film-related giveaways.
Produced in the United States, the Film Photography Podcast is broadcast around the globe via iTunes and direct stream from http://www.filmphotographypodcast.com
