Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Box Camera Scans
Our annual autumn vacation to Vermont is just a month away . . . a realization that started me thinking about photographic and painting possibilities for the trip. So I started digging through my camera collection, trying to decide which of these "heavy metal" cameras would join my Canon digital for the ride. And what a happy surprise! I remembered the undeveloped roll of 120 film in a 75-year-old box camera (a Zeiss Box-Tengor) that I had shot last year in Vermont. Here are scans of four of the negatives. Not bad for a camera that essentially no more than a box with a simple lens and three-speed leaf shutter. They almost have a 19th century feel, as if I had taken them on a view camera with glass plates for film. Hmmmmm, maybe I should use this camera again.
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These photos are stunning.
To start, they bring up memories of visits to my Grandpa's farm in Michigan when I was little. He very sweetly let me practice shooting arrows into the barn door! For a Catholic school girl from the city that was pretty big stuff.
The thing about these pictures, I think, is that your eye sees beyond the physical and your technical proficiency taps into that 'beyond.'
wow, how utterly cool?
There is something about the square format which is pretty interesting. I guess you could crop it, too if you wanted, but I like the negative look.
I think Diane Arbus shot with a square format for a while. I remember seeing a retrospective of hers in LA, and she either changed to the square format or from. I find these decisions by photographers intriguing.
Go for it!
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