My Beautiful Old Camera
Featured Work
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A Few Days Gone By by George Cousins
Quite a few of them, actually about 19,300-odd, as of today,(June 22, 2009) since this self-portrait was taken in July 1954. I was on top of a hill in the middle of the wilderness in central Quebec province, Canada, while operating a survey station for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Please note the spick-and-span military attire. / The photo was taken with a Voightlander 35mm. camera, probably using Super XX black and white film. I’m using my dearly beloved Exakta Varex 35mm.SLR, with some combination of 105 mm. telephoto with a lens extension,probably a Plus filter, and a lens hood. Having little money to spend on anything, we made good use of those Plus and Minus lenses and extension tubes,which enabled us to get better telephoto, and better macros, depending on what combination we used. Experimentation did wonders! / I can’t imagine anyone wanting a copy of this, but I thought it might be fun to post on a few Groups where it was appropriate. Now I hope the moderators agree :) / Oh yes, the original slide was scanned with a Canoscan 4000US scanner in 2004.
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"Wonderment " by John Smith
This is our eldest daughter taken at Southend On Sea in 1965. She was 5 at the time, it was taken with a box brownie 120 roll film. I,m quite proud of the way it came out, it,s more like a child study. Please excuse the quality.
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I am Siam by Sandra Rivett
Canon AE-1 / FD 50mm f/1.8 / True B+W Film / 2009 – Sydney I am siam oh hear me roar / i am siam and nothing’s gonna colour me / i am siam oh hear me roar / i am and nothing’s gonna colour me… / i am siam oh hear me roar / i am siam and nothing’s gonna be for free / i am siam oh hear me roar / i am and nothing’s and nothing’s gonna be for free… / oh no, and no one’s gonna colour me… ah oh… / in the garden we’ll watch / soldiers dance not breathing / poisen arrows hit hearts / bleeding gums no teething / you a thorn in my side / we walk so eloquently / like a pond not a grave / purple hearts become trees… / i am siam oh hear me roar / i am siam and nothing’s gonna colour me / i am siam oh hear me roar / i am and nothing’s gonna colour me… / oh oh and nothings gonna be for free, / oh oh and no one’s gonna colour me… (Scan of True Black and White Negative)
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Juke Box Gal by Joe Beasley IPA
Viewed 822 times as of 11/03/2009 / Featured in My Beautiful Old Camera group Fuji St 701 with a 50mm F1.4 lens / Kodat Tri-x Film / Coffee County Tennessee 1975 /
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room with a view by J.K. York
abandoned house in Prosperity, SC USA. Olympus OM-1. Sigma 21mm. shot on Kodak Plus-X 125 film and developed in Dektol. scanned in Nikon Coolscan VED.
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Roof Tops of London by clizzio
I wanted to take a photograph that was typical of London. The chimney style was the one thing that caught my eye as being typically British. It made me think of “Mary Poppins” Canon AE1 Film Camera / 200 ASA film / August 2005 / 70-210 Zoom lens / 60 sec shutter speed
Recent Work
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070406-11 by MICKSPIXPHOTOS
A GREAT EGRET IN THE CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND AKRON, OHIO. CAMERA: CANON AE-1 PROGRAM / LENS: SIGMA 70-210 MM @ 70 MM / FILM: FUJICOLOR REALA PRO 100 ASA
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Senator Edward Kennedy-An American Icon by Matsumoto
Semator Kennedy speaking at the Immigration Day rally on the Nationl Mall Washington D.C. / DCS720x Nikon F5 body w/80-200mm Nikon lens f5.6
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a boy leaning against the door by irenaeus herwindo
This is my boy, he learned to walk. Camera Pentax K1000 / Film Lucky BW SHD-100 / ASA 100 / 1/30; f/4 (Surabaya, Indonesia – 2009)
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I Used To Fight Fires by George Cousins
But that was a long time ago. This ladder wagon was the first piece of fire fighting equipment used on the West Coast of Newfoundland. It was built in 1920 and used in St. John’s. In 1927 it was acquired by Corner Brook and served until replaced by a motor truck in 1937. The old wagon is now a museum piece at Deer Lake, and I took this photo when we were visiting there in 1967. / Exakta 35mm SLR with High speed Ektachrome film.
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Valley of Fire by George Cousins
Taken in 1957, trains of huge “ladle” cars carrying molten slag from the refinery at Coppercliffe, Ontario, and dumping them into a rocky ravine-type valley. Pretty much the same as lava flows from a volcano. The photo was taken with a 35mm. Exakta Varex camera using Ektachrome film(not the high-speed type), with quite a long exposure to try to get as much of the flow as possible. I’m only posting it because I thought it might be of interest to some of you.Not a sight that you could see in very many places. The slide was scanned at 4000dpi with a Canoscan 4000US scanner. Featured in “At The Edge” /
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Nativity Scene, Montreal, 1955 by George Cousins
This is a sort of companion to my posting entitled “Christmas Past”. The nativity scene was a part of the Christmas events at St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, Canada. The photo was taken the same night, Christmas Eve 1955, midnight Eastern Standard Time, as Christmas Day was just beginning in Montreal. Freezing cold, the camera was pulled out from inside my parka and set up, very quickly, to get the photo. I was worried about freeze-up but it didn’t happen. Exakta Varex 35mm. on a tripod, using Kodachrome ASA 10 film. Can’t remember the exposure but probably about one second at F2.0. would be a good guess. The slide was scanned in 2004, at 4000 dpi with a Canoscan 4000US scanner.
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Dad,I Found The Car! by George Cousins
Oh, what a good son you are! The morning after the night before..beautiful sunny day in the winter of 1969 and my oldest son was kind enough to discover which mound of snow concealed our car. Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia (near Halifax) / 35mm. slide, Exakta Varex SLR, f2 50mm. Biotar, High speed Ektachrome, and scanned many years later with a Canoscan 4000US at 4000 dpi.
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Cavendish, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland by George Cousins
Some of the rugged rocky islands in Trinity Bay, near Cavendish. Scanned from 35mm. Ektachrome taken around 1967 or so. Camera was an Exakta Varex SLR, 50mm.Biotar F2 lens. Scanner used was a Canoscan 4000US.
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armbrug by J.K. York
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Graflex Supergraphic 4×5. Ilford Delta 100 B/W film.
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Rocky Mountain Drive by George Cousins
Driving through the Canadian Rocky Mountains can be a bit hair-rising at times.The road down there is the same one that I was parked on to get this shot, so you can imagine the switch-backs that get you from one point to the next.. I had to climb over the guardrail and hang onto a tree to get the right vantage point. This was a 35mm. film shot in the spring of 1991 and is somewhere near Mt. Robson in British Columbia,as much as I can remember. Camera was an Exakta Varex SLR, using high-speed Ektachrome film. The slide was scanned with a Canoscan 4000US.
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a railway boy by irenaeus herwindo
This is my boy. I took this picture in a small station in Sidoarjo. The ambient was so low, near to dark, so I put a small flash on the camera left to light the subject. Camera: Minolta SRT 101b / Film Lucky SHD-100 / ISO 100 / 1/2; f/5.6 / Flash Sunpak 1/4 power (Sidoarjo, Indonesia – 2009)
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track no.5 bound south by watersoluble
c1954 Diax Standard on Agfa 400 expired colour f3.5 35mm Schneider Kreuznach lens, c41 lab processed, May 2009 – each time I make a desaturated colour image, I hope in some small way it salutes the talents of Saul Leiter, one of the pioneers of street photography and ‘early color’
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We are here to celebrate the cameras which recorded our childhoods and the history before us. Camera used must be manufactured prior to 1980.
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Lens used (If applicable)
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