Vintage camera

Week 19. Zenza BronicaA week of such promise and excitement, I have doubled up a few previous weeks with the social media fun of FP4party, this has now transformed into TMaxparty so a move from Ilford to Kodak. I have shot a couple of their 400asa with mixed results but optimism and the sight of the Bronica gave me renewed hope. The Bronie – medium format big SLR system, basically a central body with a huge array of options surrounding it with a few of those open to me for this wee ......

Week 18 - The Yashica Electro 35 GSNAfter looking back at a few recent ramblings, and I am happy to ramble but admit they were a tad lengthy so I will try to pare it down a bit. So this little Yashi Electro is mine, we had intended to run together with one of Russells but it didn't pan out. I got her from a friend through work who said it had sat in a shoe box for some time. It needed a now unavailable mercury battery so a converter and suitable replacement was ordered and received for £7. I se ......

Week 17Kodak No 3 Folding Pocket Kodak [model E-3]Finally! I get to play with this!!! So, for many, many weeks I have looked at and admired this camera. It sits with a few other No3s on a shelf but this one really had me drooling over it. It is a big medium format folding camera producing postcard size images on now defunct 118 film with 3 1/4 x 5 ½” frames made by Kodak and built between 1903 & 1915. I can with some certainty date this one between Nov 6th 1906 & May 7th 1907. How? 1906 date ......