dean_lastoria

Kerrisdale cameras Head Office in Kerrisdale. 41st ave 2 blocks west of Arbutus. Though they are very snooty and won't give you the time of day at that location, they have the best of what's left of used cameras in Vancouver.

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Dean

I get my cameras fixed at Vancouver Camera Service

1666 west 8th ave van 736-4113

 

Not Russian, true, but most Russian cameras are similar to German. They fixed my Rollieflex, Contaflex, a pneumatic shutter on an american lens, and a compur shutter. I asked them if they would laugh at me if I brought in an old camera and they said "only a little". True to their word, hardly a snicker except when they fixed my Rollie 35 for free.

 

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Dean

That word was supposed to be "exploitive". (Spell cheker!)

http://www.highway99.com/lclarkes/heriones/index.html

 

A few years back in Vancouver Lincoln Clarkes took photos of our Downtown East side -- poorest postal code in Canada.

 

http://www.highway99.com/lclarkes/art.html

 

I if memory serves he may have used LF gear -- at least a tri-pod.

 

Lots of controversy -- expletive etc. Then the whole missing women thing happened later. Not that they were linked or anything, but people then had faces burned in their memory.

 

Good luck.

 

Dean

Thanks for the directions!

 

Dean

I want to take a look at Hal's travels. I can't get anything out of

the search engine. Can anyone point me to some dates or links? I

know it's asking a lot, but a seperate Hal button would be nice.

 

Thanks

 

Dean

Oh, c'mon, I think an Argus is a great shooter. I got a second so I could put the Sandmar 100mm on it. Where else can you get a 100mm rangefinder -- the lens was $40 and the camera $20 ... maybe I paid too much, but that's OK. Yes, focus is a tad stiff, but St.Ansel says they are the (sort-of)sharpest(ish) camera because of their heft. So, using one is a sacrament! And the one in SkyCaptian had a built-in-flash along with a zoom feature (You'll have to look hard for that model).

 

I got mine at a camera swap, and as I was walking away with it an older German man came up to me grabbed the camera and unscrewed the gears and took off the lens -- then said "These lenses are interchangeable you know" He couldn't put it back together but I figured it out when I got home. Lining the rangefinder back up again takes a few tries though -- so maybe interchangeable isn't quite the right word.

 

Dean

I must say, thoes are some of the most amazing photo's I've seen.

Dean

"Dagger of the Mind" ... must get the Columbo collection. Notice he got pro's to take the photos for the subliminal advertising episode?

 

Now if anyone knows the title of the Sandra Bullock movie where she has a Rollieflex in a tin lunch-bucket then I can bring the movie home and enjoy watching it -- and my wife will think I'm sensitive.

 

There really should be a movie camera reference of some sort. Sky-captain and the C-2 with built in flash, or the Exacta from Rear Window. And Pecker's Canonet (willing to be corrected) with the heart tugging line "I love you more than Kodak". I told my wife that with Ilford substituted in and got x-ray burns from her eyes.

 

I really must spend more time with my camera and less with the TV!

 

Dean

Much closer to the kind wich is re-built as Littman 45.

 

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/cameras/littman-45-single/

 

Of course the original.

 

Now the Columbo camera I want to know about is the one he borrowed from his brother-in-law and took to London. A little range-finder I think.

 

Dean

Thanks all for your help.

Todd, I will print off that sequence and laminate it and hang it from the strap.

Thanks again,

Dean

Mike:

Thanks for the 6x9 converter window thought. At least now I have some logic to start from -- I just couldn't wrap my mind around it.

 

Mr. Oliver:

You are correct about the lens! 7.3cm 3.5 Meyer Gorlitz in a Compur. The only label is "F.Deckel-Munchen" on the shutter, a "Made in Germany" on the pop-up hood, and a really nice boilerplate DOF chart.

 

My dealer, Mr. Equinox, said it is a Richter so I believe him implicitly -- though if it is a Trumpflex then I will have an even better time watching TV on Thursday nights and rather then "say cheese" I'll say "You're Fired!".

 

Thanks again,

 

Dean

And here is the front view, but there is no real label -- again, I am using my palm pilot for the picture. I guess I didn't ask the question -- does anyone know how to use the little windows, or can I just use the middle one like normal -- I've tried rolling an old roll through, but my brain isn't clicking.

 

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Hi:

I have a 120 TRL which is quite a bit smaller than a Rolliflex but I

am having trouble using it because of its 3 windows. They are labeled

top to bottom (1,3,5,7) (2,4,6,8) and (1,3,5,7) -- it is a square

format. I tried to follow the sequence and got 4 double exposures and

4 blank frames. I also thought I'd get more that 8 exposures on a 2x2?

I will try to put a picture on this for illustration, but my only nod

to digital is my camera on my PDA -- and that's as far as I'll go

with that!

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I tell you, I have half a mind to find another Miranda -- mine came from a broken home. It only focused to 12 feet because the lens was hooped. I kind of found that interesting for a while, but got a new lens. I got the camera SUPER cheep, because the mainly digital sales people had no idea how to open the back to put film in! (Reminds me of a lot-boy who couldn't start my wife's '80 Vette because it had a carburetor -- yes, I do have an antidote to the "you don't need another camera" with that in the garage).

 

Anyhow, I have half a mind to cut a piece of Lexan to slide in the slot where the finder should be and make a total flat-top Miranda. That would be the Sinead Miranda -- rather than the other prophylactic names. I'll keep looking for another homeless Miranda.

 

Dean

Miranda's got a new hair-cut.It worked like a charm.

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Dean

Peter:

Thank you for the info. I will go home and try that (is that a good enough excuse to leave work on a sunny day?). I will not tell my wife about your sage advice, however, as she is now of the opinion that I NEED to by a SensoREX to justify my W/L finder purchase!

 

There is something about Miranda's though -- they are kind of like a sensible person's Exakta.

Thanks again to everyone,

Dean

Doh! I lied!!! The camera is safely at home so I wouldn't loose any parts. It's a SensoMAT .... All the way in this morning I was saying SensoMAT not Sensorex ..... Sensorex not SensoMAT. Then I type.

 

My apologies. It's a SensoMAT does that change things!?! I guess if I have to get the Rex ... my wife can't kill me then .... hmm.

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Dean

Miranda Sensorex W/L finder-installation

I have a sensorex and it's great. I just received my waist level

finder for it. I un-screwed the two screws holding the prism on, but

it won't come off. The prism does wobble, but won't budge. I notice

the W/L finder has a spring/slot arrangement but I can't make the

prism slide out. Anyone have any tricks on how to do it?

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Dean

Thanks for the info. I'm glad it will work for most of what I want and be small and handy. I'll watch for the trick of the back-light button -- that will give me 1600 and I normaly over-expose a bit anyhow. Thanks for your help. Dean

Hi:

I was looking at this amazing little Minox 35mm folder. I think I

have a line on the illegal batteries, but I'm worried about hand-

held indoor shooting.

 

If I want to use available light, I can't set the exposure. The guy

at the store said that its meter sets its shutter speed

automatically sets down to quite afew seconds. But that means I

couldn't use Ilford 3200 or anything like that because it only reads

800.

 

I've been told that it automatically syncs to 125 with flash, wich

is a bit to fast for tricking it's shutter. And then a small flash

and a slow shutter wouldn't work either.

 

Does anyone have any input on using the camera like this? Or am I

asking it to do something it wasn't designed to do?

 

Thanks

 

Dean

Pete:

Funny thing is, I saw it in a little gallery and it was so perfect but it wasn't "of" anything realy. It isn't published that I can see, or the his show at the V.A.G. so I gotta admit not knowing ... though if I'd have had the $5000 in my pocket at the time I'd have grabed it.

Dean

Only one on my list: John Vanderpant. I'll bet none of you know him. His print is the first print (and realy the only one) that caused me an asthma attack. That's the mesure: "Does this one cause an Asthma Attack".

 

Dean

 

(PS. though Mann and Maplethorpe have causes some heart attacks I've heard)

Are you a geographer or an art critic? I did some work on non-verisimilitude based regional identifiers in visual art and came up pretty much with nothing.

 

Verisimilitude is something looking the way it looks ... not stylized. English pictorialists lived in a foggy world, hence foggy, Southwest American photographers haven't ever seen a cloud so razor sharp --that kind of thing. That's not really a difference that is culturally based. Watching others do this kind of thing you may fall into the trap of 'American's love taking pictures of high craggy mountains, where Europeans love taking pictures of 1000 year old churches' kind of thing which isn't anymore of a correlation than what happens to be in front of the lens.

 

Anyhow, a great starter on this is a paper by Warren Gill of SFU on Structuration in the music industry -- a cultural/spatial phenomenon much like photography. He focuses on the "North/West" sound Louie-Louie etc. I found it a great starting point though I'm not a music person and wasn�t studying music. Structuration may explain reasons as simple as Europeans used Rolli's and North Americans used Graphlexes -- distribution issues among other things, which could have huge impacts on style.

 

Ti: Region, agency, and popular music: the Northwest sound, 1958-1966

 

Au: Gill, Warren

 

So: The Canadian Geographer, 37, Summ '93, 120-31

 

Hope it helps.

Dean

See, to thoes of us in Vancovuer "Micheal Smith" is that anoying reporter for the Province!

Dean