Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : beck December 04, 2010, 12:14:12 AM
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Crown Graphic? Crown Royal? I dunno really. Do you? Nice knobs. Har.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5242/5230366952_c9a74c04b1_b.jpg)
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koni-omega 120. Replaced by the much nicer model, the Rapid.
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Just thought of a good title (well, I think so :D) for the original photo - "Beauty and the Beast".
Gregor, is that camera for real? It looks like the most over-engineered, complex and, frankly, ugly machines I've ever seen. No doubt it produces / produced great photos but it looks like a car crash. Only my opinion, though....
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funny i was just looking at koni omegas yesterday, and was thinking that's what this might be but couldn't find an example of the older version...
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Nice Hat ;) Terrible dentures!
Just a thought - is anyone able to hazard a guess as to what the photo itself was likely to have been taken on?
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There are a few of the Rapids on EvilBay - big vatiation in the prices, but, they do look sweet, you know, car crash sweet. ;D
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is anyone able to hazard a guess as to what the photo itself was likely to have been taken on?
Probably shot on some view camera (probably 8x10) in a studio somewhere in a big city... the background looks fake...
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yes indeed that is a for real camera! over-engineered is somewhat mildly put. It was designed as a military camera and then later models were introduced to the general public.
I had a Rapid M model. With a tack sharp Hexanon lens it was a beautiful camera. Bulky, but no heavier than, say a Mamiya c330 for example. The lever at bottom right is the film advance - a pull/push mechanism with surprisingly large teeth on the gears..
This photo is the Rapid - one version prior to the Rapid M which had interchangeable backs for 120 & 220.
If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive 6x7 with a great lens it's a good choice.
just found this on the Omega 120:
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Omega_120
It's impossible to tell what the photo of the woman (w/cam) was taken with - there were so many studio cameras in the 1950s. Likely an 8x10 as Francois said.
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...and I thought Holga was the most ugly camera ever !! :o :o
In the end no one probably even pay attention to the camera anyway (apart from us ;D)
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Whoah! That first camera is indeed an ugly spud. The later Rapid certainly looks better though...in fact I thought it might be one of the ones that Eggleston uses, but I think that's a Mamiya Press.
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yeah eggleston uses a mamiya press, with a silver front...at least in "eggleston in the real world".
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I'm amazed by the range of tone in that image, it's hard to tell on a monitor but from deep back to white, it's just so smooth, no visible grain! (Are you sure it's not digital? he he he) ;)
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I think it's been airbrushed on a large format negative. Used to be pretty common practice for portraits.