[Rhodes22-list] Old cameras

[Michael D. Weisner]

Ed,

My wife has an old Graflex with the 4x5 back.  Worked in the 70's.  Don't 
know if it still functions at this point.  Great to focus with the ground 
glass screen.  Real large format camera.

In the 70's and 80's, my workhorse portrait camera was a KoniOmega M, 120 
film, 2-1/4" x 3" negatives.  10 shots to a roll.  30 rolls to an affair. 
Standard of the wedding & bar mitzvah shooters, unless you could afford a 
'blad.  Still have it but haven't used it in decades.  Digital is so much 
easier, cheaper and the cameras are finally good enough to use.

2-1/4 square format, yeah we did that ...

Mike
s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
       Nissequogue River, NY
From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:46 PM
>
> Mike,
>
> Digital?  I learned to take pictures on a "Speed Graphix".  And did you 
> know
> that Stan has a 2 1/4 square Rolliflex?  I had to get him a roll of film 
> to
> prove it still could be had.  Now there was a camera and a format.
>