what is that?

[ghost]

bizarre camera...

 

[jlw]

From what little I can see from the photo, it looks like a Mamiya Press or Mamiya Universal, a series of modular rangefinder cameras with interchangeable lenses and 120 rollfilm or sheet-film backs. (The Universal also offered back movements.) You can see the rangefinder hump, the end of the roll holder on the photographer's right-hand side, and the camera's anatomical grip on his left-hand side.

Graflex used to offer a similar camera called the Graflex XL, but it was finished in black and the body section was thinner.

Here's a picture of a Mamiya Press 23 Super from the Mamiya Press Site: this one has a sheet-film back rather than a roll back, but you can see the family resemblance:

And here's a picture from the same source of the Mamiya Press Deluxe, shown with a roll back. You can recognize from this the shape of the roll back shown in the picture in the first post.

 

[wlewisiii]

Bizzare? You're living a very sheltered life, son. Looks like a Mamiya press camera - probably a 23 - to me. Very nice cameras with excellent glass (as is always the case with Mamiya). I think that's what it is because of the squared off top and the left hand grip for the camera. Probably the normal 90 - 100 range lens from the look of it. Then again, that is a camera I desire so I may be reading more into the shot than is appropriate... <shrug>

I'd be more curious about what he saw that was that interesting to shoot because he's terribly concentrating on something... 😱 Though if nothing else, he should be cheered on as he's using a real camera that will only ever take film... 😎

William

 

[ghost]

i think we have a winner. 😀

 

[ghost]

ah, here we go.

 

[jlw]

Apparently the photographer pictured is boring but influential artist William Eggleston, as seen in a scene from filmmaker Michael Almereyda's 1985 documentary William Eggleston in the Real World; click here for a review...

 

[wlewisiii]

Jlw,

That is so bizzare that it's fun... Thanks!

William

 

[jlw]

Though if nothing else, he should be cheered on as he's using a real camera that will only ever take film... 😎

If it's got a Graflok back, it should be possible to adapt a Sinar or Leaf digital back to it. Guess that'd be one way to get a digital rangefinder camera without giving up film!

Click here for a site with lots of crazy adapters for Sinar backs...

 

[wlewisiii]

😱 I'm hiding now... (!)

(IOW, jlw is being too true for words...)

:angel:

William