World Toy Camera Day 2011

[LarryD]

I don't know if any of you remembered but the 15th of October was World Toy Camera Day 2011.

First roll was from the Ansco Shur Shot jr. with FP4+ that expired in 95.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokerphotography/sets/72157627907000858/


Court house by inetjoker, on Flickr


Sun behind the tower by inetjoker, on Flickr

The roll from the Vivitar UW&S is hanging to dry.

[Olypen]

Good Photos!  Do you think maybe that old box camera feels kin to some of those older buildings?  seems to work out that way.  I do want to see what the Ultrawide and Slim does with b&w; I'm not sure I've seen any before.  I found one at a thrift store several months back, but I haven't tested it out; maybe if I see some b&w, which I like to use, I'll get moved to try it.

[br1078lum]

We need to get a calendar made up with all the "insert name here Photography Day" dates.  Or make a sticky with a list.  I didn't know about this Larry, till I saw your shots on Flickr.  And those are pretty good shots from that Ansco.

PF

[LarryD]

Thanks Ya there are a few different days.

[radiophoto]

I played yesterday, used my Six-20 Portrait Brownie so I could get some new shots without the frame numbers superimposed on each pic.    I was successful!

[LarryD]

I still love those pictures with the frame #s Pete. Unique. 

[radiophoto]

For all things in Photography, there is a place or part:
Behold the careless shutterbug, who bungles it and calls it "Art".

                                                         --Pete Lutz (2011)

[LarryD]

Oly

You wanted to see the UW&S B&W....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokerphotography/sets/72157627915774356/


Nora with my Shur Shot JR by inetjoker, on Flickr


Long shadows of the morning. by inetjoker, on Flickr


American Pride by inetjoker, on Flickr


Under a rock by inetjoker, on Flickr

[Olypen]

Thanks, Larry.  That thin little camera handles b&w just fine. I've got to dig mine out to try it.   I like the buildings and steps; I was surprised that there didn't appear to be much distortion.  Is there a story behind the sculpture of the woman with a box camera?  I haven't seen one like that.

[LarryD]

First famous Female photographer in the Southern U.S.A. Broke the Gender barrier...  I think Nora is more local these days... No one cares but many of her pictures I believe are in the Smithsonian and had to be loaned to the local Museum.. Talk about Civil War still going on and she was from years after. LOL I have the History of her in the Archives here if you do a search. I doubt the camera is accurate... as she used better equipment most days... but it was taken from one of the few pictures of her and that was in a studio and taken by a male photographer. 

[radiophoto]

My efforts from WTCD11 are here.  They begin after the pics with the red streaks.  Yes, it was my Six-20 Portrait Brownie, this time with no superimposed frame numbers!  woo-hoo!

[Olypen]

Pete:

The Portrait Brownie lives up to its name in your series of your son; if I think back to the time when the box camera was common, so many pictures suffered from being too far away.  In your series there's one taken from maybe 60⁰ to the right that really has the portrait look to it -- that's probably mainly the photographer, but you just couldn't get the same thing from farther out.  If I remember right, VP used to be about 9 minutes in D76 1:1; I don't use Acufine, but it looks like your weren't too far away from normal development -- 30 some years after the film expired:  Verichrome Pan was a marvel.  I have two 127 rolls saved from about 1983 (that's when I sold my Baby Rollei because Ektachrome was discontinued in 127 size)-- maybe they'll still work in a Baby Brownie (all I have left to take 127).  Anyway, thanks for the post.

[radiophoto]

Olypen -- thanks so much for your kind words!  It isn't just the box camera where pics get spoiled from being so far away, though.  I think there's some kind of (human) racial memory that has carried over from boxes to point-n-shoot 35mm.  Even people who have never held a box camera have done this!

My favorite box cameras are the ones that have the built-in close-up lens.  In my collection I have 4 such:  Six-20 Brownie, " " model D, " " model E, " " Senior, and the one of which you remarked so nicely.  All of them were made in England -- why couldn't Eastman Kodak have done this for their American versions?

I love Verichrome Pan and discovered it only about two years before it was discontinued, to my everlasting premeditated consternation.  But it can still be found on eBay, and at the occasional decent price.  Your 1983 stock should be just fine.  Give it a try in the Baby Brownie, that one was made for VP!    If you don't have a 127 film spool I would be happy to develop it for you, but I wouldn't be able to have it scanned.

Thanks again!