Can type cameras : Originally designed for decorative, curiosity or advertising pusposes is a single speed fixrd focus and built in flash using 110 type film. Comes in a variety of titles.

 

Made by Ginfax

 

 

 

 

Comes as beer, soda or film cans .

 

 

Made by Shen Zhen industries

These use a normal 110 camera inbuilt a conventional can.

Or a miniature digital camera with aminiature digital sound recorder.

 

 

 

Transformer type cameras:  The Voltron Star Shooter  and the Canon Transformer is a toy type camera  Uses 110 type film . The great lens in the center reaaly is a fake only for model composing. Single speed and single aperture.

 

 

 

 

 

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Blackbird Fly

 

There are tons of used Rolleiflex available elsewhere. But if you want something new, really cheap and practical, The Blackbird, Fly TLR  is the best camera you can get a taste of TLR., comes in six different colors. Made by the same Guang Dong manufacturer which now manufactures the Lubitel 166+. The Blackbird, Fly is made entirely of plastic, down to the lens. And is a Lomographic camera. Best of all, it works on cheaper and easier to get 35mm film. It can take pictures in standard 35mm film format (24×36) or square format (24×24) or even larger square with side sprocket holes visible on photos (36×36) with the use of different mask.

 

Specifications

Lens: f7 33mm
Shutter speed: 1/125s
Aperture: f7 (cloudy) f11 (sunny)
Focus: Visual distance estimated measurement (0.8 / 1.5 / 2/ 2.5 / 3 /4 / 5/ 10 / infinity)
Weight: 210g
Film: 35mm film

The Linatec is a cardboard pinhole camera in which by exception of the external decoration is an exact copy of the Dirkon downloadable at: http://masimpex.com.br/books5.htm  and schemes at http://www.scribd.com/doc/24593/dirkon-en

 

Professional Cameras

3D120-III Stereoscpic Camera

 

This is the Odd 3D Magic PRO 645 (3D120III Stereoscopic Camera) made by Seagull Shanghai Camera. Based on the Seagull 4 camera TLR camera. It has five 3.5 75mm lenses for picture taking in five 4.5x6 cm film. It is intended to show stereo print pictures in lenticular masks.

 

 

Shenhao TZ45-IIB Folding Professional Camera

Black Walnut/Aluminium Alloy
Format:   4X5"inch

 

HZX45 II A View camera (folding)

  Teak walnet/Copper
Format:  4x5inch

 

FCL 57 A View camera (folding)

Black walnut/Alumium Alloys
Format:  5x7inch

 

FCL717 A panoramic

 

Black Walnut/Alumium Alloys
Format:  5x12inch

 

FCL810 A

 

Black walnet/Alumium Alloys
Format:  8x10inch

 

HZX57 II A

 

Teak walnet/Titanium
Format:  5x7inch

 

HZX410 II A

 

Black walnet/Aluminium Alloys
Format:  4x10inch

 

HZX512 II AT

 

Teak walnet/Titanium
Format:  5x12inch

 

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Curiosities

Polaroid is fun, but most Polaroid camera only produces 4R size photo. Since every photo is unique (no negative), it cannot be processed to bigger prints. Is there a way to get poster size Polaroid photo?

Indeed there is such Polaroid camera, still alive and kicking. The camera is a large format view camera and since the film is based on the same principle of Polaroid instant film, this means the camera is of mammoth size, taller than average human height, to fit the 20×24 inches film. The effort of preserving this unique piece of photography equipment is headed by John Reuter, a long time passionate in 20×24 Polaroid. He and his partners founded 20×24 Holdings LLC (20×24 Studio) and Polaroid Corporation have agreed to transfer the studio and production assets for Polaroid 20×24 film to 20×24 Holdings LLC before Polaroid Corporation went bankrupt. The transfer not only includes the camera, but also the technology, machines and materials needed to produce 20×24 film. This means the studio will be able to continue to offer access to the incredible analog technology of large format instant film by way of camera and studio rental as well as film sales to independent owners of 20×24 cameras.

John Reuter points out “many artists recognize that the tonal nuances produced by Polaroid 20×24 analog technology film are impossible to capture by digital means. Every exposure is unique, since there is no re-usable negative.  It is also ideal for portraits as no other process can equal the life like dimensionality that ultra large format instant imaging can provide.  This is the last chapter of a great historical process” Reuter concluded.

If you are interested to experience this unique form of photography please visit 20×24 Studio, located at 75 Murray Street, Tribec, New York City. The studio location is too a unique historical building known as the Bogardus Mansion. What better place to house this camera than a historical building? One last note, each exposure (20×24 instant film) cost USD200.

 

 

 

20x24legacyNYC

One of the original cameras hand-made at Polaroid in the '70s. This is the design basis for the new camera I'm now building.

 

20×24: The Story Continues

New York, NY– August 10,   2009 – The last great photographic process of the twentieth century,  the original Large Format Polaroid process is alive and well in New York City!

The legendary large format instant photographic process pioneered by Edwin Land and the company he founded has been rescued by a group of the film process’s aficionados.  A new studio utilizing the Polaroid 20”x24” large format instant film cameras favored by leading professional photographers and artists from around the world has opened in Manhattan.
 
20 x 24 Holdings Executive Director John Reuter: “When we learned that Polaroid decided to cease production of this one-of-a-kind film, we bought the remaining raw materials as well as the film production equipment that the Polaroid Corporation was intending to scrap.  We even secured the last run of the film production. There is enough material to last many years.”
 
The 20 x 24 Studio has one of the original Polaroid Land view cameras, of which there where are only six in existence.   This legendary Polaroid camera is located in a new studio in the Tribeca section of NYC, run by long time Polaroid master Jennifer Trausch, who is the Director of Photography at the 20 x 24 Studio.
 
“We have been planning this rescue effort for more than three years, when Polaroid first made it clear that it would be exiting the instant photography business” said Reuter.   “The courts approved our final agreement on Edwin Land’s 100th birthday, a fitting conclusion. We are incredibly pleased to keep Dr. Land’s legacy alive”.
 
John Reuter has been involved with Polaroid 20×24 instant imaging for nearly thirty years, and it has never lost its allure and excitement. “While digital technology has made great strides in the past few years, there is still no medium that can compete with Polaroid large format instant film, this is the purest form of photography, You're taking a photograph and making a print at the same moment.   Only the Polaroid process can guarantee that the picture you see is identical to the subject that stood before the camera.   The 20×24, a lovely, archaic piece of technology, preserves the one form of photography you can trust.” said Reuter.
 
His view is echoed by some of the legendary artists who have used this process, Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Annie Liebowitz, and William Wegman, among others. The amazing people that have been photographed with this legendary process range from Michael Jackson to Martha Stewart and everybody in-between.   That is just to name a few…
Reuter points out “many artists recognize that the tonal nuances produced by Polaroid 20×24 analog technology film are impossible to capture by digital means. Every exposure is unique, since there is no re-usable negative.  It is also ideal for portraits as no other process can equal the life like dimensionality that ultra large format instant imaging can provide.  This is the last chapter of a great historical process” Reuter concluded.

 

 

 

 

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A Great Collection from India

 

Chennai: It's said that a man is known by the company he keeps. But there's someone who's known by the cameras he keeps.

 

C Sekar, owner of an enviable collection of cameras, chooses to call his apartment 'Camera House', an apt name, considering most of the space in the apartment is taken up by his cameras.

 

Sekar’s romance with the lens has been going strong for the last 28 years. And now his shelves are brimming with an exquisite collection of more than three thousand cameras – all of which still work.

 

There are people who collect vintage cars, or old stamps, but no one ever thinks of camera. I think I'm the first one to do it," C Sekar says Sekar has cameras from Britain, US, Switzerland, France. Some of his exclusive pieces are - a model wrapped in crocodile leather, an old wooden piece, that's more than a century old and to top it all, there a small lighter cum camera that clicks a picture even as you light up a cigarette.

 

Sekar's vintage collection could easily fetch him thousands of dollars, a well deserved reward for spending almost three quarters of his earnings on his fetish. But he has other designs.

 

At least two college students come to my house everyday to study about my camera. It helps them understand how things were some years ago - that's before technology came in. I want to preserve them all for posterity in a museum," Sekar says.

 

 PS: You will need a magnifying glass.

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