Your camera -- a fashion statement!

[DavidH]

I suppose the ultimate accessory would be the right photographer's car.

Well...no model included but you can take the roof off, comes with a driver, is fitted with a schnorkel and has space for the tripod in the back...as used by mums on the school run in London...
😉

 

[Jocko]

For the perfect fusion of fashion and photography, look to Mr Teague -
http://members.home.nl/brownie.camera/walter_dorwin_teague.htm

Cheers, Ian

 

[mjflory]

Oh, no, Ash says my CL is chic! (Posting #35)

 

[Ash]

Not as much as a seagull 😉

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

By the way, I tried cutting down the spool of a roll of 120 to try to fit it in my (fashionably retro) Kodak Vigilant Six-20, but no luck, the spindle itself is thick enough that even without the -- what do you call them, "spool ends" the film wouldn't fit. So I guess I'll get around to trying to fully respool some 120 one of these days.

I bought a Foldex 20, in addition to using 620 film, it will hold a 120 spool of film which I wind onto another 120 spool, then I take this spool of 120 and wind it onto a 620 spool which I use in my 620 cameras. It just takes a couple of minutes to wind on the rolls in the Foldex. The trick is to keep your 620 metal spools if you have some one else process your film.

I am curious as to what would be proper shoes to wear when walking about with a Leica M2, or Contax IIa, or Canon P.

(Like I really care🙂.)

Wayne

 

[MelanieC]

Considering how much folks here DO care about fashion, and accessories (see the endless discussions about camera bags, vests, half cases, black vs. chrome, new camera coverings, und so weiter), I admit a certain bemusement about this thread.

 

[reagan]

Hah! (I grew up outside Milwaukee; these wimpy New York winters just don't seem real to me.)... I wonder: if I heated my Zorki a little in the oven, would it keep my hands warm if I walked all the way around the block? (Would it soften the grease and make the knobs a little easier to turn?)

*From Wackypedia* ~ "Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, Milwaukee has the second-coldest average annual temperature, next to that of Minneapolis. ... The 1982 event, also known as Cold Sunday, featured temperatures as low as -40°F (-40°C) in some of the suburbs as little as 10 miles (16km) to the north of Milwaukee, although the city itself did not approach such cold temperatures." So, you weren't toooo pampered. 😱

Yes, Zorkis can be used as warming devices. I place each on top of the wood stove for 30-45 minutes prior to need. I personally use Zorki.1s in my socks and my Zorki.4 in my cap. (I also have a couple of Chaikas coming for the mittens.) Cheers! 😉

 

[dmr]

I admit a certain bemusement about this thread.

I'm finding this thread quite amusing, with the spinoffs of vehicles and weather and such. 🙂

Back to the original subject, that being a (albeit overpriced) TLR as a retro accessory. I didn't see the original catalog, but I'm wondering if it's intended to be used, or just seen. I know people who have such things as manual typewriters and candlestick phones in their homes, but on a totally nonfunctional basis, as "retro" curiosities.

A TLR, on the other hand, is still a viable tool. They are still available new and still used as originally intended. I tend to think that the Teeming Millions here are totally clueless as to what the TLR actually is.

 

[mjflory]

*From Wackypedia* ~ "Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, Milwaukee has the second-coldest average annual temperature, next to that of Minneapolis. ... The 1982 event, also known as Cold Sunday, featured temperatures as low as -40°F (-40°C) in some of the suburbs as little as 10 miles (16km) to the north of Milwaukee, although the city itself did not approach such cold temperatures." So, you weren't toooo pampered. 😱

Yes, Zorkis can be used as warming devices. I place each on top of the wood stove for 30-45 minutes prior to need. I personally use Zorki.1s in my socks and my Zorki.4 in my cap. (I also have a couple of Chaikas coming for the mittens.) Cheers! 😉

I love it! [Googles Wackypedia. Contemplates fur hat full of Zorkis. Thinks of heating house for winter with Kiev 88.]

 

[mjflory]

I bought a Foldex 20, in addition to using 620 film, it will hold a 120 spool of film which I wind onto another 120 spool, then I take this spool of 120 and wind it onto a 620 spool which I use in my 620 cameras. It just takes a couple of minutes to wind on the rolls in the Foldex. The trick is to keep your 620 metal spools if you have some one else process your film.

I am curious as to what would be proper shoes to wear when walking about with a Leica M2, or Contax IIa, or Canon P.

(Like I really care🙂.)

Wayne

I've got a couple of 620 spools around here and since my local drugstore won't do 120 anyway I needn't worry about losing the spools to them. I think I will do the two-camera trick, as I usually get myself wrapped in film and paper if I try it in the changing bag. My only problem is remembering whether I'm in the process of winding 120 onto 120 or onto 620 at the moment.

If an M2 or a P goes with untasseled loafers, I think the Contax (or my Kiev 2) probably calls for wingtips. (And for my Koni-Omega, the snow boots I should have worn yesterday.)

-- M.

 

[mjflory]

Considering how much folks here DO care about fashion, and accessories (see the endless discussions about camera bags, vests, half cases, black vs. chrome, new camera coverings, und so weiter), I admit a certain bemusement about this thread.

Melanie, you're here! The one among us who is unquestionably fashionable! The rest of us content ourselves with dressing our cameras as proxies for dressing up ourselves. (My FED 2 looks far more dapper than I in its new leather coat. I'm in the process of redoing the covering, though; this shot shows how carelessly I cut and placed the leather.)

Maybe I need that Fashion Barbie camera after all...

-- Michael

 

[mjflory]

Back to the original subject, that being a (albeit overpriced) TLR as a retro accessory. I didn't see the original catalog, but I'm wondering if it's intended to be used, or just seen. I know people who have such things as manual typewriters and candlestick phones in their homes, but on a totally nonfunctional basis, as "retro" curiosities.

A TLR, on the other hand, is still a viable tool. They are still available new and still used as originally intended. I tend to think that the Teeming Millions here are totally clueless as to what the TLR actually is.

The Sundance people's catalog did, to their credit, cite the optical quality of TLRs. (I returned the catalog to my wife, who's probably pitched it, so I can't quote.) As I recall, they seemed to be implying, rather implausibly, that Seagull had been in on the development of the TLR since they were invented! At least they weren't selling LOMOs, where (to misquote Konica's marketing) the distortion alone is worth the price.

I wouldn't be surprised if some adventurous souls actually order a camera to take pictures with it. I was delighted that a couple of the young women on our research staff went so far as to take a local photography class a while ago. (Alas, the purple prints they brought back made it clear that the teacher was giving them exhausted chemicals. What a poor introduction to the darkroom.) A couple of weeks ago I took the lovely Iskra RF folder I bought from Nancy P. ("Diggin99" of RFF) to work. One of the guards on duty spotted it immediately and told me he, too, collects old folders! (I showed the Seagull folder to a Chinese colleague, who was delighted and pointed out, with some justification, how much Chinese industry had progressed in the then twenty-year-old People's Republic of China.)

By the way, Ian, that link on Walter Dorwin Teague is wonderful. I mentioned old cameras to yet another patient colleague, who then delightedly reminisced about the Bantam Special he'd inherited. (He just remembered it as "the camera with the stripes.")

 

[Xmas]

I'm still trying to sell cotton tops with 'my other camera is digital' in Russian I'm missing something then.

Noel
P.S. is the dog yours Ash?

 

[Kim Coxon]

Ah Melanie! You are spoiling all the fun. 😀

Kim

Considering how much folks here DO care about fashion, and accessories (see the endless discussions about camera bags, vests, half cases, black vs. chrome, new camera coverings, und so weiter), I admit a certain bemusement about this thread.