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I have been buying, fixing up and using vintage medium format cameras for the last couple of years. Most of these cameras use modern 120 film, which is available from most good camera stores. The advantage of medium format is less enlargement of the negative to the ratio of the print. I have been surprised at the quality that these older cameras are capable of. With the use of modern film in these cameras great results are obtainable and at a very reasonable cost. For less than what a just a film back cost you can have a whole camera. But the drawbacks are a fully manual camera that makes you do the thinking. This is not a bad thing it makes you get more involved in the picture taking process. Once you break away from the "My Camera Can Do It All". Photography comes back to You and taking great pictures is not the camera function but the person behind the camera. A few photo friends saw my vintage cameras and my results and I have been taking orders, overhauling the cameras and reselling them. That where this New section comes in the simple how do you Do.. So and So. I have tried to show with pictures and a few words the how to.
Even though I show a Zeiss it should work with other style cameras.

Check out the section on using a Vintage Zeiss or other Folding Camera steps 1-4. I hope this helps some if not let me know...still let me know.

Welcome I have been putting pictures taken with and pictures of the cameras that I'm rebuilding and will be selling on this site use the link below. Pictures Taken With The link below now works. Just a few of the Cameras for sale, click on the link below or contact me. http://shop.auctionwatch.com/richertd I started buying and fixing older Medium Format cameras to use in a Beginning and Intermediate Black & White class that I teach in Hawaii. I have found that many of these cameras have been sitting in someone's closet for years waiting to come out and play. They are also very capable of superb pictures surpassing the tonal range of 35mm and with modern film are easy and a joy to use with very modest cost.	New pages added: When I sell cameras I take pictures to place with my auction descriptions. After a year I noticed I have a nice collection of pictures of different models. I sometimes show different lens shutter combinations now these could be set at the factory or modified at a later date. I am just showing them as I have received them. At a later date I would like to do some write ups on the different models but for now just pictures.....I'm a photographer not a writer. ZEISS MODELS over 25 models listed With most of the vintage cameras, filters are hard to come by. Most do not have a screw mount threads on the front of the lens elements that we have come a custom to seeing on the newer cameras. There are still ways to attach a filter on your camera with the use of adapters, or filters that were made for that camera. Vintage Filters
Flowers and Colorful Plants I'm testing out (OK I bought it) a new Minolta Dimage 7 Digital camera. One of the request that I have had for some images is that of flowers that are a little abstract. Showing color and enough shape to distinguish them as flowers but with a little artistic flair. I am also shooting colorful plants to work into this assignment.	"Boy & Diamond Head" This is one of those shots that most of the time get away kind of like fishing. Sometimes you land them other times you just tell the story about the shot that got away. This one was taken with the simple AGFA ISOLETTE c1954
"Cleaning the Sky" It's hard to see the window cleaner in the small thumb. Made in Downtown Honolulu mid April with a Zeiss 524/2 6x9mm Uncoupled Range Finder Novar 1:3.5 f=105mm mounted in Prontor-SV using modern Ilford HP5+120 Film. ZEISS 524/2	ANSCO SHUR-FLASH on this site This started with a call by CE Nelson on the Classic Cameras (pre-1970) Forum to send a camera around the "Lower 48" I talked him into Hawaii and Alaska as we also have mail service. Dean Williams has a nice write up along with pictures at Ansco Shur Flash.
"A Nice Place to Sit" One of my on going Themes taken with a Zeiss 530/16 6x6 format with a Tessar 1:2.8 f=8cm lens not bad for a 70 year old camera. See ZEISS 530/16 for more AGFA	Dimage 7 and Infrared
May 1955 Popular Photography May 1955	Ever wonder if your shutter was running at the correct speed ..... Sound Card Shutter Tester Use your computer and a very simple device
June 1955 US Camera June 1955






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