Updated my presscamera website

<p>Hello everyone!<br /> Finally after many many years I updated the website of my presscamera collection, so take a look. My problem is that I prefer, collecting, repairing and using those cameras over updating a website. I have now had a website for almost 20 years and the update rate is too slow. So many of you have very beautiful websites and updated properly.. are there many others with my problem of preference?<br /> If you have ideas of what kind of information should there be more of the cameras, please let me know.<br /> http://www.presscameras.org/</p>

<p>Jani</p>

<p>beautiful collection.</p>

<p>Wonderful. Thanks for the link.</p>

<p>Do you have any idea what this camera is (the one smashed in the wreck that broke Jimmy Stewart's leg in the movie <em>Rear Window</em>)?</p><div></div>

<p>Nice site. Thanks.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!<br>

JDM, do you have a higher resolution pic of that available? Some parts remind me a bit of a Graflex SLR... but not sure</p>

<p>No higher res from my DVD, I'm afraid. Perhaps someone has a higher resolution version, but I suspect the limitations are in the original, not the copy.<br>

This is just panned across near the start of the Hitchcock film (my post on the cameras in it at http://www.photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00cbVC ). It's a clip from a much larger whole frame.</p>

<p>Jani, I just waded through your site. You don't say much about your cameras and much of what you say is promises to say more later.</p>

<p>You might want to develop a standard list of information to give for each of the cameras in your collection. This will make it easier for visitors to your site to compare cameras and to use your knowledge to decide which press camera they should try to buy and use.</p>

<p>Thanks Dan! Should it be more of a listing of technical features, or grading of how the camera performs, ergonomy etc. or both? With many presscameras the choices of lenses and shutters etc. was really big and so the technical performance parameters changed a lot and when one buys a presscam finding the exact same might be difficult.</p>

<p>Jani, at least dimensions (length, width, height, minimum and maximum extensions), weight and, for cameras with focal plane shutters the slowest and fastest shutter speeds. Movements, if available. Your grading of how the camera performs and of its ergonomics.</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Dan</p>

<p>JDM,</p>

<p> "Rear Window" has a Blu Ray version now. So you should be able to get a higher resolution image if you upgrade:-)<br>

Yefei</p>

 

<p>Nice, so if anyone has that version.. maybe we can get more out of it. But so far my guess is graflex slr due to a few features, but they are so blurry that it can be only something I think I see.</p>

<p>The recessed lens would be consistent with a Graflex SLR. I recall an old Abbot and Costello move in which Lou was holding a Graflex. Does anyone (JDM) recall which movie?</p><div></div>

<p>I looked at that pile of scraps and thought 'Graflex' too. In favor of that are (i) the recessed lensboard, (ii) the lens which looks like it's in a barrel mount, (iii) the pile of mahoganyish wood, and (iv) the thing that looks like a focusing hood, off to the left.</p>

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<p>"Rear Window" has a Blu Ray version now. So you should be able to get a higher resolution image if you upgrade:-)</p>

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<p>•Not worth the trouble for me. I think the movie is one of Hitchcock's best, but how many times will I actually watch the DVD I have...<br>

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•even the Blue Ray cannot be higher resolution than the original Eastman Color motion picture negative, which I think is the limitation here.</p>

<p>I think the Graflex is probably it. Thanks folks.</p>

<p>That would also explain why Jimmy Stewart and his camera were smashed. Using a Speed Graphic and wire sports finder would have the user seeing and being well aware of his surroundings. Looking into the Graflex dark tunnel to the ground glass would isolate the user from what was going on around him. Not a good thing when there are tons of metal moving about at various speeds.<br>

Later in the film, wasn't he using a Speed Graphic to fire the flash blinding Raymond Burr? He should have taken that to the race track but then there wouldn't have been any broken leg or any movie.<br>

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