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That's the nice thing about a waist level finder- you can get away without a tripod in a lot situations.

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Okay, photography fans... what are these?

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Absolutely Kodak promotional materials.

There's just enough of the red chips to play Bingo on a single card.
The 3 die I have no idea on...

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These are from a game called "421". Roll the dice with various combinations getting the most points. Apparently 4, 2 and 1 were the biggies.

Something to do with your darkroom assistant while prints dried? Apparently it never caught on. Something to look for at yard sales or 2nd hand shops. SW

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/280 ... twenty-one

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Just the ticket for spur of the moment snaps! SW

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I had heard about this before- a periscope system for focusing those large box cameras.
I *think* that's the mirror he's moving with the secondary knob...
The reason for that system not being entirely successful escapes me- it may well have had something to do with cost...
Thanks for sharing the photo.

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Spy ring camera ca. 1940. No word where it was made. SW

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Not a clue on this one.
It probably took miniature roll film of some kind.
Given the delicate look of the case, it was very likely a single use camera, with no provision for the user to reload film.
Probably used panchromatic film that could be handled under a dark green safe light.
The artwork on the case suggests French manufacture- just a huge guess on my part...

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Basic box camera. I've got Dad's he carried for years on ranches and took pics of cowpoke life. Actually not bad images. I'll try to copy and post a few later today. SW

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Agfa used good glass for a long period.
They were also responsible for Rodinal film developer being put on the market.
Would be nice to see what the old box was capable of.
Is it 6-16, or 6-20?

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Doc Sharptail

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Here's the camera - can't tell which it is. Strap shows "D-6 Cadet". SW

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Agfa D 6 film = Kodak 116 film, which is a little over 1/8" wider than 120 film.
Nominal Kodak image size was 2-1/2" X 4-3/4".
Agfa used a 2-1/2" X 2-1/2" square image size for most of it's 116 format cameras.
The 616, 620 and 120 spools are too narrow (short in length) to fit in the D 6 Cadet.

The lens glass in these old AGFA cameras was more than acceptable for the image size.

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Doc Sharptail

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To all of you with older digital cameras & even older strobes with possible high trigger voltage fears.
Wein safe Synch!

I have 2 1980's vintage "Potato Mashers" & a ring-light, all of which I refuse to give up, but they work in the 180~220V trigger voltage range.
Both of my digital Fuji cameras don't recommend going that high.

The Safe Synch drops any incoming voltage to 4~6 DCV, safe for any transistor synch switch.

I semi-permanently attached one to each hot shoe connection & they're all working fine & together after many years!

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Kodak K-24 aerial reconnaissance camera ca. 1940s. SW

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Looks like a roll film back on it- which would be the largest I've ever seen.
If I were to guess at format size, it would be at least 8" X 10" at a bare minimum.
Doubt they were used hand-held very often- they were usually pintle mounted onto the gun mounts of a B-25, from what I've read...

Edit: Not a Kodak, but a graflex K-17. It often gets mis-identified as a Kodak...

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=8129c577 ... tMi8&ntb=1

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I lifted the pic from a Russian site. As usual they didn't put a lot of research into the caption. SW

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A little more reading around the web shows an image size of about 9" X 16".
The camera was electro servo controlled for film and shutter advance.
The lens on it may very well be a Kodak 9-1/2".

I really can't see film that big being reel tank developed.
There was very likely a system for cutting the film for tray development, which makes a heck of a lot more dark-room sense.
The images must have been something else, especially with that low of an enlargement ratio...

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Doc Sharptail

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You couldn't cut the film before processing because there's only a latent (invisible) image on it at that point. There's no way to find where the "border between frames" was. There was a "galvanized Bathtub" developing tank, it contained 3 "developing tanks, 1 developer, one fixer & one water rinse. not daylight.

In it was a system for un-spooling the roll film on one side passing it through a gap where the chemistry could access the emulsion side & re-spooling it on the other, which was hand-cranked. The non-stop movement back & forth kept the chemistry active over the whole film area in a type of continuous agitation. When time was up you lifted the whole shebang up, drained it & lowered it into the next chemical bath.

It was a "Press" Type "Rapid Access" processing Chemistry. Permanence wasn't a concern, speed was.
Processing large roll film was a well known & (sorry) developed skill, basically invented decades earlier for processing the giant film from "Circuit" cameras used for large group portraits.

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I haven't seen anything on this so I figured out why not give it a lash.
I love my old "Potato Masher" strobes!
The Sunpak auto 611 from the late 70's & its replacement the 1980's Auto 622 Pro.
Both working fine to this day.
Both had multiple auto exposure settings as well as variable manual power ratio control. The 4 pack rechargeable "C" cell batteries would run for ever even on full power. I don't think I ever actually flattened a set!
The 611 was a tank, the 622 a somewhat cheapened design quality, but with many more features like interchangeable dedicated TTL remote sensors, interchangeable by camera brand. Interchangeable tilt & swivel heads including one with a zoom feature, a bare bulb, a diffused, & even an infared. Quick change battery packs too.
The 611 being older is a HV trigger at 190V so I use a Wein "Safe Synch" with it always, but the 622 is down to about 4v.
The 611 has a (real) GN of 160(ft) with 100 iso & the 622 with the head set to "normal" zoom is almost 220(ft) with 100 iso.
The small attachments under the remote sensor shoes are Safe Synchs & optical slave units




I just find the versatility, off camera abilities & raw power particularly handy so I refuse to give them up even though I have a couple of shoe mounts for both my cameras.

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That's the biggest one in the house, G/N 36, of course.
I'm not sure when Sunpak started following Vivitar's lead into incorporating the guide number into the model designation.
It came in one of my film camera package deals, and I'll keep it for use with the single F2, and FTN I have left here.
I did use it on the p.c. terminal of the D-200 without any problems~ the trigger voltage is well under the max 250 V for that camera.
It takes six double "A" batteries.



There's a slightly cleaner take of the same image above.
TBH, I mostly use the built in pop-up flash on the D-810 these days.
I still have not researched trigger voltages for it yet.
I seem to be mostly working outside with the camera now.

Back in the medium format "Working" days, go to flash was a pair of Metz Meca-Blitz 60-CT2's.
I had never run down the lead-acid battery packs.
They are rarely seen these days, as the battery packs were prone to long term degradation.
Two Bowens Mono lights with umbrellas were part of the wedding kit, which in all probabilities, I won't be doing again.
I think I have a couple of the optical slave units left here, as well as a Vivitar 283, and 285.
Using all three would be interesting once I'm ready to put the time into the set-up.
There's also a couple of different versions of the Nikon SB-22 here, which are a bit low in the power dept. at a g/n of 22.



Do remember to bring enough kit .
The bulk of it is mostly third party film lenses, and I think a couple of film cameras.
It ain't all of it- there's two more piles in seperate closets.
Add in the hunting, fishing and shooting stuff, and a 3 ton is required bare minimum.

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Doc Sharptail

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