I must say I’m really enjoying these old cameras. I just got a new one a couple days ago. It’s a Kodak Folding Rainbow Hawkeye 2a Model B (wow, that’s a mouthful of a name). It’s a cool old camera made between 1931-1932 and it takes 116 film. Unfortunately 116 film is hard to come by, but with some spacers I can use 120 film luckily. When using the 120 film, my negatives should come out to 6cm x 11cm. That’s a big picture.
Currently it is in many pieces getting a slight reconditioning as all my cameras get. Soon though, it will be put to use.
I’ve been wanting to get into Black and White photography with film for a while now, especially with vintage cameras. Well I’ve finally gotten around to getting film and the required things to develop at home, and have gotten my first negative digitized.
I’m using my SD-14 on my enlarger stand (no, I haven’t delved into printing yet) to digitize the negatives, because I don’t have a scanner yet.
So here it is, the first one of many to come. Taken with a 1955 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash with a flipped lens on Ilford FP4+ ISO125 120 film, processed in D76.
…and now I’m changing the Gallery from Coppermine to Gallery3. Coppermine just feels too clunky for me.
The new gallery is up and images are transferred, but now I just have to figure out what I want to do with all the images that have been linked to the gallery. Good times.