gene m Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 <a href="http://westfordcomp.com/foundfilm/argoflex75feb07/argoflex.html"> And ahoss or two. <a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshx Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Gene, I am surprised you posted that last photo without commentary. Perhaps it is too easy to mock, and therefore beneath you. ;) My brother bought me a pair of pants like those for Christmas last year. In fact, he buys me pants like those almost every year for Christmas. It upsets my mom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 Baggy pants like those are great for dancing. Plenty of ballroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Thanks for posting the photos. I have the exact same camera model with case (fixed lens) in new condition and was interested in how well it works. I do Holga photography, and that camera produces similar photos. I need to run a roll through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I have to say you are right about one thing. Roy Orbison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy_des_ruisseaux Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Gene big smiles as usual. The actor was Don Defore. I always remember him as the next door neighbor in the early years of Ozzie & Harriet before Ricky became a rock star. Also for the old film buffs he was a crew member on the B25 in 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. He was always shoooting 8 mm movies and did so when they flew the plane under the Golden Gate Bridge,only to find out he didn't have film in the camera. Somewhere around 1968 or 1969 I was working as a photographer for a commercial studio in Washington D.C. One of our clients was the Sheraton Park Hotel which was right accross the srteet from our shop. They liked to get photos of the celeberaties that stayed in town and Don Defore was there. We traveled to Union Station where Defore was going to take the Metro Liner to NYC. He got to sit in the cab and wear a engineers cap. It seems his father had worked on the railroad. For you photo freaks I shot with a Rollei 3.5f Tri-X and a Honeywell 65D strobe. Well that's what you get for mentioning Don Defore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_powell2 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 "Ballroom"...I'm busting somethin' here! ;^* Sincerely, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Good info about Don Defoe. The lady next to him looks familiar. Ozzie and Harriet was a weekly favorite in my house. Gene, have you tried to convert any of these to 120? Looking at my Argus, the 120 film roll will fit in the film compartment but the little nubs on the prongs that hold the roll in place are a touch too long and keeps the film from being seated. I'm wondering about snipping those nubs a bit and try to keep the 120 roll stable by friction. Then I could use a 620 spool for take up. Much easier than respooling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_powell2 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Geeze, I compeletely forgot an add to Todd's first comment! A while back, I Googled "Argoflex 75" and found some other users' B/W photos that (even reduced for Web diaplay) were jaw-droppingly sharp and beeeoooooteeeful. Sincerely, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 These are also easy street cameras. Who's going to be threatened by a box camera? (^U^) I also found that the diameter of the 120 roll ends will still allow the back to close. I do think that grinding down the nubs will allow the insertion of 120 film in the feeding chanber and using a 620 take-up spool. I'll let you know later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Well, I gave it a try by grinding down the spool nubs a bit with a dremmel tool and got the 120 roll to fit but, even though the back will close, it is too tight to wind freely. It would probably turn Ok if I clip the edges of the 120 spool. I'll give that a try. The amount of grinding did not affect the use of 620, so, it's back to respooling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Success: grinding down the nubs that hold the film spool in place in the film feeder chamber, to allow the 120 roll to fit, and clipping the lip around the 120 spool with wire snips (easy) allows the use of 120 film in the feeder chamber with a 620 take-up spool. (^U^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_lofquist Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 The blonde next to Don Defore is probably Virginia Mayo. The brunette looks like Teresa Wright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Any idea how old the film was, or how it was stored? The quality is really surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I googled "Argus 75" and took a look at some of the sites that came up. With fresh film, the photos were outstanding. I do think that this would make a great street camera. I bought mine for about $10 on eBay and there are a bunch there right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 No idea other than the fact that the spool was woud up tight when I received the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tri-x1 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Great pictures--better than most shots I've seen from that era. BTW: Roy Orbison was A LOT shorter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 Yeah, I actually shook hands with The Big O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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