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[Rob]

Hope this is the right place - as the content covers several subjects I wasn't sure where to put it. I often use a 1917 Kodak No 2 Autographic camera, especially for taking photos of WW1/Edwardian era subjects - here are some motor related images which I hope are of interest;



Royal Flying Corps Crossley Tender



1916 Matchless and Sidecar with Vickers machine gun



Edwardian motor garage and showroom at Beamish Open Air Museum (containing an Armstrong Whitworth tourer, a 1913 Renault tourer, Ford Model T Tourer, SHEW car, and a 1911 Daimler Lorry)



1920's garage at the Black Country museum





Two photos from the London to Brighton 2010 concourse



And the camera used
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[peter scott]

Well done Rob!

Your photos certainly give the same impression as those taken when the Autographic was new. It is difficult to exclude all items of modernity and the ones that you have included are quite subtle and are a bit like Hitchcock's appearance in his films just to remind you that this is not "real" life.

Peter
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[Rick]

They're great, thanks for posting them Rob. It's interesting to see just how close to genuine old images they look, do you have any more cameras of this vintage?

RJ
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[ukdave2002]

Hi Rob

Very nice

I presume it use's 620 film? can you still get 620 or do you buy 120 and wind it on to the 620 spools?

I love old camera's,have a small collection but no allowed to display them, so they are all in the loft

Dave

[Rob]

Hi Dave, fortunately it's a 120mm camera so just buy Ilford HP5 off the shelf - unfortunately, you only get 8 photos per film!

Rick, i'm afraid it's the only one I have - i'd like to get more at some point as finances allow, in the long term i'd really like a large bellows type that would have to use a tripod for posed, static shots. I'll be taking it to the VSCC 'seered' meeting at Donington tomorrow to try one or two 'action' shots, or just static.

Peter, excluding modernity is certainly hard - at places like Beamish and the Black Country Museum, the buildings, staff, objects etc are perfect but there's modern public, at WW1 events the people and camp are perfect but there's often modern public in the background, or cars, red/white safety tape or other modern pieces (i've got a fantastic shot of the 1915 Watch Office at the RAF Hendon museum - aside from the modern bin at the front!), although black and white can help make modern pieces at least a lot less obvious and not enough to distract from the main focus of the photograph
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[Castellated nut]

Glad to see there are other vintage camera enthusiasts on the forum! The pictures do have a very genuine 'period' feel.

Amongst an increasingly out-of-control collection I have a "No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak" of similar vintage that I bought at a jumble sale in the '60s. I tried to get film at the time, but it uses a size that ceased production before WW2.

[Calum]

Those are fantastic!! I need an older camera like that to use... at the moment my oldest I use is my Minolta XG-M from 1982.

[peter scott]

[Castellated nut]

At the risk of turning this into another classic camera forum I'd just like to warn against keeping cameras "in the loft" unless it is a particularly dry one! Apart from corrosion and general deterioration of the cameras, they are quite likely to suffer an attack of fungus on the lens, which if left long enough will etch the glass and ruin it. Most lofts are only one step up, storage-wise, from a cardboard box in the corner of a damp garage as far as cameras are concerned!

[Rob]

Some more from my latest batch;

- 1904 Humberette, one of these was the star of the 1906 film 'The ? Motorist' - http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011/10/motorist-1906.html



Austin in front of the Whitby Lifeboat Museum



1911 Daimler



1914 Sunbeam Tourist Trophy



Sentinel six wheel steam bus that gives rides around Whitby


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[COMMAD]

Hi,
New to forum, very impressed with pic's, B&W is more suitable for old car pic's. Keep up good work.
COMMAD.

[Rob]

Only one motor vehicle from the latest batch, a 1917 Ford Model T Ambulance


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