I Got a Pony!
Was thinking about old art-like project-like things and started looking for old working film-based cameras a few weeks back. A place on Etsy had some and I ended up buying myself an old 1953 Pony 135 Model C. For really damn cheap.
The thing with this camera is that the viewfinder has nothing to do with the finished image. You look through a glass square above the lens and set the settings and hope for the best. You have no idea what the finished image is going to look like until you develop the film (which is harder to find and find places to develop than you would think, btw).
We went out and took a few pics at a nearby park and recorded the settings and developed them to a CD. These are a few of the finished images, undoctored except to shrink them to a journal-friendly size.
Very first picture taken, of the bar...
A sort of tunnel/pathway in the middle of the park.
An old abandoned treehouse.
A willow tree in spring.
Mind you, some turned out as not much more than blurs, and some turned out pretty damned awesome, especially when you consider this sucker is over half a century old. All had a slight yellowish tone to them, which may be from the coating on the lens... which is supposedly radioactive, btw, so don't, you know, touch it or lick it or such. No, I am not kidding.
Anyway, kinda looking forward to playing with it some more, even if there is such a delayed gratification as it takes a week to develop actual film-film now, instead of digital pictures.
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The thing with this camera is that the viewfinder has nothing to do with the finished image. You look through a glass square above the lens and set the settings and hope for the best. You have no idea what the finished image is going to look like until you develop the film (which is harder to find and find places to develop than you would think, btw).
We went out and took a few pics at a nearby park and recorded the settings and developed them to a CD. These are a few of the finished images, undoctored except to shrink them to a journal-friendly size.
Very first picture taken, of the bar...
A sort of tunnel/pathway in the middle of the park.
An old abandoned treehouse.
A willow tree in spring.
Mind you, some turned out as not much more than blurs, and some turned out pretty damned awesome, especially when you consider this sucker is over half a century old. All had a slight yellowish tone to them, which may be from the coating on the lens... which is supposedly radioactive, btw, so don't, you know, touch it or lick it or such. No, I am not kidding.
Anyway, kinda looking forward to playing with it some more, even if there is such a delayed gratification as it takes a week to develop actual film-film now, instead of digital pictures.
This entry was originally posted at http://cat-77.dreamwidth.org/428056.html. Current comments