Box Brownie

[Jack Harrison]

This article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30744464

doesn't seem to have generated any interest. So deleting

[Jack Harrison]

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[Jack Harrison]

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[Tony Moore]

Do you have a lot of time on your hands??

Tony M.

[Padfield]

My world is in greyscale anyway at the moment, Jack, with just a hint of sepia on Minnie's ears ..



Guy

[NickB]

Missed the original post, Jack.
If you want to replace yours, I guess I could lend you mine.......

[Jack Harrison]

That Box Brownie of yours would probably be worth as much as our house in Ireland. Want to do a swap? (Not serious).

Jack

[Chris Jackson]

Interesting. I've just read the article linked to your first posting Jack and got totally engrossed in the nostalgia, and read the article right through to the end during working hours - my boss would have a fit if he knew
Chris

[Jack Harrison]

Now there is a degree of interest, here is my contribution.

Jack

[David M]

Interesting. I've just read the article linked to your first posting Jack and got totally engrossed in the nostalgia, and read the article right through to the end during working hours - my boss would have a fit if he knew
Chris

No wonder France is on its knees!!

Mind you, I haven't exactly increased GB's GDP today but that's another story..........

[NickB]

For those who didn't use film cameras, just imagine how many rolls of film you would use on a shoot if you banged-away as you can with digital equipment!
For that reason, you used to be very careful with each shot; not that, most of the time, you ended-up with in-focus and sharp pictures......most of the time it was a sense of disappointment at the time (and expense) expended to get some s**t shots back....

[NickB]

....or I could lend you this, if you wanted an upgrade, Jack!
An Eastman Kodak

[NickB]

For those who didn't use film cameras, just imagine how many rolls of film you would use on a shoot if you banged-away as you can with digital equipment!
For that reason, you used to be very careful with each shot; not that, most of the time, you ended-up with in-focus and sharp pictures......most of the time it was a sense of disappointment at the time (and expense) expended to get some s**t shots back....

Only me, then?

[bugboy]

For those who didn't use film cameras, just imagine how many rolls of film you would use on a shoot if you banged-away as you can with digital equipment!
For that reason, you used to be very careful with each shot; not that, most of the time, you ended-up with in-focus and sharp pictures......most of the time it was a sense of disappointment at the time (and expense) expended to get some s**t shots back....

Only me, then?

No, I feel your pain too Nick.....

The boxes are my Costa Rica pics, probably took 3 times that many but thats all the ones I kept and the folder is where I keep all by butterfly slides. Out of every roll of 36 I would on average throw away 50%, such a waste!

And that is just the tip of my slide iceberg!

[Jack Harrison]

....or I could lend you this, if you wanted an upgrade, Jack!
An Eastman Kodak

I had one of those (or very similar). I fixed a simple close up lens and an L-shape wire to show the correct distance and frame to photograph butterflies.

We were on holiday in Somerset (I would have been 13 years old at the time) and I had just encountered my first ever Green Hairstreak. For some reason I put the camera on the ground and subsequently stepped back on to it. I was in tears but Dad took pity and I got a brand new Zeiss Nettar as replacement.

Jack

[MikeOxon]

If you want to re-create the Box Brownie 'look' from your digital files, there's a good BW 'plug-in' for Photoshop Elements from http://www.photo-plugins.com/

There are sliders to set the colour response (even choose really old 'colour blind', blue-sensitive film if you like), to emulate the effect of colour filters, to 'tone' the print, and to add as much grain as you like!

Mike