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TTArtisan Wants You to Pay $400 to Beta Test Its Folding Instant Camera https://petapixel.com/2026/03/20/ttartisan-wants-you-to-pay-400-to-beta-test-its-folding-instant-camera/ #foldingcamera #instantcamera #ttartisan203t #instaxmini #Equipment #ttartisan #Opinion #Analog #instax

Redesigned Polaroid SX-70 Folding Camera Features New Body and Lens https://petapixel.com/2025/08/04/redesigned-polaroid-sx-70-folding-camera-features-new-body-and-lens/ #foldingcamera #instantcamera #polaroidsx70 #mintcamera #retrospekt #Equipment #polaroid #10artcc #Analog #News

#WavyWednesday made it to my timeline today, and an image I made over the summer came to mind.

The layered pattern of the walls of a 3d printed concrete structure caught my eye so I got close using a little Agfa Isolette II folding camera and Illford HP5.

#filmphotography #blackandwhite #foldingcamera

A beautiful clear day allowed me to get out and try and adjust the rangefinder of this camera's rangefinder.

The top cover was simple to remove exposing the rangefinder adjustment screw.
Turning the focus to infinity and pointing the range finder at a distant object I was able to turn the adjustment screw until the images aligned.

Now to put another test roll through it to see if the focus matches.

#filmphotography #foldingcamera #vintagecamera

An update on the smelly old ICA Sirene 135. A contender for the #ShittyCameraChallenge?

It’s been months since I posted about the ICA Sirene 135, literally. The first post about this smelly old camera was in June 2024, then I left it outside for a few weeks before putting it into a box with some mothballs. It remained there for the five weeks we were on holiday and by then the smell of mothballs was so overpowering it was kept outside a little longer to ‘freshen up’. Then, in October,  I gave it a good sniff and the mothballs smell had gone but the original tobacco smell still lingered. I brought it into the office, as the weather outside was getting a little damp, and it’s been airing there ever since.

So now it’s November and in the next few days the latest Shitty Camera Challenge will commence. I’ve been taking part in the #ShittyCameraChallenge for a few years now (and was honoured to be ‘crowned’ Shitty Camera Challenge Champion for the #1990sCameraChallenge event a couple of years ago, though I’ll never let anyone forget it) and although I normally submit a lot of digital entries, this time I’ve decided to concentrate on film. Giving the smelly old Sirene 135 a sniff, I reckon it’s time to put it all back together and, who knows, actually use it in the Challenge. 

As a reminder, the ICA Sirene 135 was from the Kamerastore’s ‘Not Passed’ category. It had ‘flaws that will affect typical use’, in this case, ‘haze and fungus inside [the lens]. The viewfinder and ground glass are hazy. The shutter is sticky [and the] body has signs of corrosion and mold (sic).’ Most of all, ‘it smells’. And it certainly did, and to my mind the description on the Kamerastore website actually understated the smell. It was an all-encompassing deep lingering odour that just clung to the camera and wouldn’t let go. I actually thought it was years of nicotine staining from being in a smoky environment, but who really knows. Anyhow, the Sirene 135 got a good deep clean, inside and out, including the lenses and the ground glass, and it cleaned up beautifully. Apart from the smell. Thus began the weeks, no months, of airing

So now the smelly old Sirene 135 is ready to be put back together. Before I started I gave the camera a good clean inside and out, including a jet of air around the bellows. The first step was to reinstall the lenses, which went fine, and then reassemble the viewing screen. The ground glass was now lovely and clean, all the old debris had been removed and it just needed a quick wipe with a soft cloth. After about twenty minutes the Sirene was back together and the shutter firing nicely. I took it outside and double checked the focusing and discovered that to get infinity focus the camera needed to be on the ‘2’ metre mark. I’m not sure whether that was because I’ve not seated the lenses properly or what, but it seems to work otherwise. 

It certainly looks like the ICA Sirene 135 will be used in the Shitty Camera Challenge this time around. Checking the body I need a couple of tripod adapters as the thread for the tripod is 1920s 3/8 inch standard instead of today’s 1/4 inch, but aside from that the ICA Sirene 135 is ready for action. It still smells, though.

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#1920s #AntiqueCamera #Experimental #Film #FoldingCamera #ICA #OldCamera #Retro #Shittycamerachallenge #Sirene135 #Vintage #VintageCamera

A few shots from the initial test roll.

Good news is the camera seems to be functional and the shutter speeds seem correct. Bad news is the range finder does seem to be off slightly.

I think a more precise test is in order, and then maybe look into the possibilities of calibrating the range finder on this thing.

📷 Mamiya 6 K
🎞️ Kentmere 400

#filmphotography #foldingcamera

Put a roll through an old (new to me) Mamiya 6 folding rangefinder camera. It shoots 120 film at both 6x6 and 6x4.5, and has an interesting focus mechanism that moves the film plane rather than the lens.

Aside from some cosmetic dings, it seems to be in pretty good shape. Though the rangefinder seems like it may be out of alignment.

Excited to get this roll processed and see how it's shooting.

#filmphotography #foldingcamera

We went to an antique store in Lawrence, MA today. I was looking for camera gear and not expecting to find anything.

I was right that there wasn’t much to see, but I did see one that has me super intrigued.

$79 seems way too much for this, but I am going to spend some time on the YouTube doing some research and maybe I might go back again. Folding cameras from pre-war are sort of what I was thinking of for my first step into the medium format world.

We’ll see.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/29/antiques/

#antique #antiqueStore #antiquing #camera #foldingCamera #iphoneography #mediumFormat #photography

I made a diffusion gel back to use my 1920s Frankencamera with a cheap noughties Genius digicam. Look at the difference between a cheap diffusion film and Leelux 400.
#FoldingCamera, #VintageCamera, #Experimental, #Retro, #Vintage, #Digital, #1920s, #Genius, #Digicam, #Frankencamera, #ShittyCameraChallenge,

It's here! My Leelux 400 diffusion film has arrived. Took a while to hunt it down and the delivery charge was criminal. But I hope I’ll have enough to last forever now (two rolls, 50x60cm each).
#FoldingCamera, #VintageCamera, #Experimental, #Retro, #Vintage, #Digital, #1920s, #ShittyCameraChallenge,

After completing the digital Frankencamera I was writing a rough blog post to summarise my experience and went back to look at the first images produced with the Genius 8MP digicam. It wasn’t that long ago but I was blown away by the digital aerochromes and trichromes that the Genius produced. So I thought,  why not see what the digital Frankencamera can do?

I mounted the Genius digicam in its cone to the back of the Frankencamera and wedged it in place so it would not move. I then set the shutter to ‘T’ and rhe aperture to its widest. I also set the Genius to a 10-second time so that I could hold a filter over the lens. I set the digicam to black and white then took photographs with red, green, blue and infrared filters from which I made a trichrome and a digital aerochrome. 

What was immediately apparent is that I really need a decent diffusion gel, so will be looking around for a Leelux 400 diffusion filter. With each image there was a clearly visible hot spot and this drastically affected the exposure of each filtered image, especially the infrared image. But at least I have shown that I can produce a trichrome with the digital Frankencamera. 

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https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/making-trichromes-and-aerochromes-with-the-digital-frankencamera/

#1920s #Aerochrome #Digital #Experimental #FoldingCamera #Retro #Trichrome #Vintage #VintageCamera

While the lunch was cooking I loaded up my three 1920s film holders with Instax Wide. It's forecast to be sunny tomorrow (or at least not raining) and I hope to try and 'calibrate' the camera so I can use the viewfinder with the camera hand held. #FrugalFilmProject #FoldingCamera #Instax #Instant

Portrait of me

It’s-a me!

My wife took this portrait of me using the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515 folding camera.

Shot on Fomapan 100 rated as 200 (pushed one stop), developed in Caffenol for 15 minutes.

https://kevingimbel.de/?p=971

#6x45 #Analog #Caffenol #FoldingCamera #Fomapan #Fomapan100 #Me #MediumFormat #Portrait #ZeissIkon #ZeissIkonNettar