OT: Infrared

Good Morning Bill, I'm on my way to my Saturday Tai Chi class, but I have to comment on the photos.

Not enough cameras and tanks laying around! Have a good Saturday..

Jan
 
What were the two exposure times? From the article, it looks like ~6Fstop loss in the Red channel. That makes it one of the more IR sensitive modern digital cameras.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
What were the two exposure times? From the article, it looks like ~6Fstop loss in the Red channel. That makes it one of the more IR sensitive modern digital cameras.
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Brian, I'm sorry, I wasn't keeping track. My bad! I do know that Ann-Marie and I went out later and got some outside shots. Bright daylight got about 5 seconds of exposure at f8 and ISO 200. So there is a definite trade-off, but it was a lot of fun. And I think I just got lucky - the Pentax does seem to be very sensitive to IR. It also does AF right through the filter, which is so weird!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
jan normandale said:
Good Morning Bill, I'm on my way to my Saturday Tai Chi class, but I have to comment on the photos.

Not enough cameras and tanks laying around! Have a good Saturday..

Jan
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Jan, but what kind of RF camera is that in the upper left corner of the photo?

Anybody?

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Bill I assumed a Canonet G "series etc". I know you well enough that when you ask, I'd better take a better look. It's still my guess but something is telling me I'm wrong.
 
jan normandale said:
Bill I assumed a Canonet G "series etc". I know you well enough that when you ask, I'd better take a better look. It's still my guess but something is telling me I'm wrong.
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I'm sorry, dirty trick - I just got back from my photo shoot for the city of Wilson tonight. Made a few bucks, but my dogs are barking! I just got in and poured a Jack and water. The camera is a relative unknown, an Ansco Anscomark M. It is a 'Space-Age' design brick of a rangefinder (bigger and heavier than the Lynx 14 or the Mamiya Super Deluxe), interchangeable lenses. I bought the lenses awhile ago, finally got a body for them. It showed up a locked-up mess, but with a lot of q-tips I finally got it working again. I will take a few shots with it soon, I hope.

The Anscomark was also known as the Ricoh 999, I believe Ricoh built it. Never have seen a Ricoh 999, though.

There is a much better photo of an Anscomark here:

http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/gratt/diary/?ctgy=1

You have to scroll down though. It is a cool camera, in a George Jetson way. I'd love to have one all restored and sitting casually on a Heywood-Wakefield end table, though. That would be da bomb.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
BrianShaw said:
You'd water down Jack... shame on you, Bill.
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I didn't like the taste of the ice cubes. Been in the fridge too long.

Besides, I'm a reprobate and throw-back in so many ways. May as well go for the gusto.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
I know I'm off topic on your thread here but that should have been an entry in Rich's "most beautiful camera" poll. Very clean .. yeah "jetson's" is a description that suits the camera

Have you ever seen the Kodak Bantam Special? I would like to find one of those on the cheap. Really beautiful , like art.
 
jan normandale said:
I know I'm off topic on your thread here but that should have been an entry in Rich's "most beautiful camera" poll. Very clean .. yeah "jetson's" is a description that suits the camera

Have you ever seen the Kodak Bantam Special? I would like to find one of those on the cheap. Really beautiful , like art.
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Yes, the Bantam is a lovely Art Deco camera - they even had one in the Art Deco exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts two years ago November when we took the train up for the weekend. I believe it used 828 film, a real pity. I'd love to have one in 35mm.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Fedzilla_Bob said:
Brian, Here ya go- http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/132.

Bill - what kind of lens mount does that Ansco have?

Also, it looks like you are still having fun times with the Pentax.
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The Ansco mount is essentially unlike anything I've seen. The shutter is a leaf shutter behind-the-lens, so none of that funky one-back-element and multiple-front-elements compromise like the Zeiss Contina / Contaflex cameras. However, the rear element is narrow - I guess to facilitate the 1/500 max shutter speed - so I am sure some kinda funky lens design had to be done somewhere. There is a 35, a 50, and a 90 - the 35 and 90 are kinda slow (f4.5 as I recall - it's late and they are downstairs) and the 50 is a 1.9. The mount itself physically resembles a Deckel mount (think Bessamatic, Ultramatic, etc), but it is a sweet little quarter-turn can't-get-it-wrong kinda thing. Very nice actually, could do it in the dark even without knowing the nomenclature by heart.

And yes, just did an evening's work with the Pentax. It has paid for itself by now.

However, my coworker was shooting a Nikon D200. Oh man. Talk about sweet.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
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