Out of shower

I came across a wooden large format camera at Photo and camera fair a couple of weeks ago. The camera cost me 15e. Sure, I had to find a lens and film holders on top of that, but 15e! That's practically free! Decoding the cyrillic alphabet on the side of the camera I found out that the wooden apparatus was called FKD and uses 13x18 cm film (that's around 5.1"x7.1" film). Not too common sheet film form, but not altogether impossible to find either. This particular camera was manufactured in '86, so it's almost new and in good shape too. The camera was used without shutter at it's time, so I haven't bought one either (yet). These are the very first shots (can it be called a shot if there's no shutter, I wonder?) I've made with the camera.

攝影師：
antmark
上載：
2018-03-15
標籤：
f/8 flash home process home processed large format portrait sheet film
相機：
FKD 13x18
菲林：
Fomapan 100
鏡頭：
Industar-51
城市：
Helsinki
國家／地區：
Finland
相簿：
And now for something completely different...

4 個留言

  1. neufotomacher
    neufotomacher ·

    This camera takes nice pictures.

  2. antmark
    antmark ·

    @neufotomacher And big ones too.

  3. neufotomacher
    neufotomacher ·

    Instead of "shot," maybe a "capture." You were using 5" x 7" sheet film. I know that can be found easily in the United States.

  4. antmark
    antmark ·

    @neufotomacher Yes, "capture" sounds right. :) The European equivalent for 5"x7" sheet is just a tad bigger than it's American counterpart, but enough so that the FKD film holder (plate holder in truth) won't be able to hold the 5"x7" film in place. At least not without modifications... There are however 13x18 cm b&w film still available from Harman and Foma, but (fresh) color film would have to be cut from 8"x10" film.

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