Topic: My new medium format camera

[xtolsniffer]

Thought I'd splash out on a new camera. Well, actually not so much as splash out, more borrow from my parent's loft. Quality seems a bit iffy, but it does have an interesting quality about it....

And the culprit, a 1957 Coronet Captain, which was the camera my mother bought with her first ever wage packet. Once I'd taken it apart and got rid of the spiders, I ran the first film through it since 1967, Fuji Neopan 400, developed in X-tol 1:1. It has a close focus setting, and a swing-in green filter, plus viewfinders for vertical and horizontal shots, and makes 6x9 cm negatives. You get one aperture 'open' and one shutter speed 'slow' (oh and 'T' if you want). Printed in Ilford warmtone pearl RC, then toned in Fotospeed selenium toner for about 2 minutes at 1:7 dilution. It actually takes much better general pictures than this, but I like this one 'cos it's a bit arty-farty.



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[formica]

nice. i don't see anything iffy in this shot at all.

                william

[Skorj]

Iffy? Both the camera and result look purdy foine to me... Skj.

[moominsean]

that is a neat looking camera... i want one. nice shot, too, spiders and all.
there are a couple coronet cameras i've been looking for..this one is new to me.

[xtolsniffer]

There was one  a few days ago in mint condition on ebay for about ?9, so I don't think they're rare. It has a swing in lens for close-ups 1-10m (ish) and a swing-in green filter too. The flare comes from the film not rolling tight enough on the take-up spool, so when you take it out light creeps in - I think this must be a sign of age and I hope to work out how to fix it as the pictures my parents took of me using it look not too bad. It's great fun to use, and you get some fantastic looks from people when using it. I'm taking it out this weekend to a steam-train museum for that full retro-feel, but having run out of HP5, I'm going to have to try FP4+ and just uprate it to 400 ASA. You get 8 shots per roll of 120, but I can only print the middle 6x7 cm as that's how big my enlarger will print.