One Year of Cosina Flash Photos and a Sneak Peek!
Remember this?
After my Kemijärvi trip photos were developed (Kodak Gold) I immediately bought a new film (Fujifilm 200 ISO) and started taking pictures. The last photos I took July this year so the film was in the camera almost for one year. I didn't take that many photos in the winter because I partly forgot that I had a film camera and a film in it. And winter this year wasn't that snowy that long so it was pretty easy to miss. Alright, alright, I forgot. And most of the photos weren't that good so I'm not boring you with 39 photos which is what I got out of my 36 frame film.
I have pretty awesome photos taken with my Sony A6400 of this oat field and the dark sky (at least that's how I remember the photos are) somewhere in the depths of my computer and again I have no excuse why I didn't do a post of this trip that took place July 2021. I am such a lazy person when it comes to things that I absolutely don't have to do, things that I love doing but somehow don't have the energy to start and also things that I know I have time to do but as I have nothing else to do, then why do even that one thing. So hard to explain but I think some of you understand. I always have something else and then time passes and things happen and what do you know, a year has gone by.
This scenery of the setting sun has also several other variations taken with my Sony A6400. I will definitely show those photos to you some day, and straighten the horizon in them, if those photos have the same problem as the film camera photos have. Slightly tilted is just so wrong. A mistake which I should have spotted. But as in my previous post, the first Kodak Box 620 photos, I did nothing to the photos, so these photos are also as they came to me from the film developing / scanning company.
The view from a lookout tower. Again the tilted horizon...
And the lookout tower itself.
Obligatory tram photo which you can compare to the tram photos in my previous post. Back light of course.
Fall.
A fall day, diminishing light.
Winter evening with snow, taken from almost the same place as the photo above this one. The partial building on the right in the brighter photo is in this photo on the left side.
TV and the reflection.
Woodhenge!
So I promised you a sneak peek!
A sneak peek to the future.
Or perhaps it's partly to the past also.
Back to the future and a sneak peek to the past.
Yes, that's it.
Ok so I thought that after taking the first set of photos with my first ever vintage... or is it an antique camera since it was made in the late 1930's, I should perhaps clean it properly and restore it a little and also perhaps fix it, depending on the fact how much I break it when opening it.
So here's what happened to my Kodak Box 620. I broke it. Apart. A post of all this coming one day.
But that's not all! I found a new old camera for me to play with!
Felica, made in West-Germany, introduced in c.1957.
What can I say, I love cheap, crappy things and cameras are no exception to it. I'm sure no-one is ever going to see a Leica or a Hasselblad in my hands. Oh okay, I've touched a Leica once.
But back to the topic!
8 euros from the local second hand shop so my rule of not buying a more expensive camera than twice the amount that my previous camera cost me (4€), was not broken! Unfortunately this camera is broken. Not that much, the shutter works which is the most important thing but there's no winding knob. Fortunately there's a thing called 3D printer so definitely gonna fix it and post about it.
But that's not all folks, that's not all!
I found a third new old camera!
A Kodak Brownie Six-20 Model C!
I bought this beauty for 7 euros from the Sunday flea market in the nearby park. It slightly jingles when I shake it and only the snapshot shutter works, not the time shutter (open as long as I press the shutter button) so I think the loose part has something to do with that, but I think I'm going to just clean this from the outside and again not fix it before I've taken the first set of pictures with it. And definitely a post about this one coming too. Some day.
That's it for now.
Take care!
Film cameras
Kodak Box 620
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Cosina Flash 35E
1, 2
Digital cameras
Sony A6400, 16-50mm
1
Sony A6400, Laowa 25mm f2.8
1
Comparison: Sony A6400, Canon EOS 550D, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P32, Canon PowerShot A550
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Awesome set of picture. Thumb up
Thanks! 🙂👍
You've got some really awesome photos here! I love that light blue "marble" sculpture with the gold accents on it, very much! I also love that next photo looking out over the field with the very dark storm clouds overhead and the superb lighting from it all! Fabulous photography! 💜
Oh thank you so much! That marble sculpture intrigued me too. And I know, the dark clouds, really fascinating. Although a photo is never the same as the real experience, which was a little bit breathtaking, but I tried to capture it. :)
such wonderful results you got with this old and simple camera on Kodak Gold.
i endlessly love this bus - it appears very dramatic.
thank you for the teaser about the next posts and the cameras you're going to tell us about.
Thank you! Actually that Kodak Gold was the first film I used in the camera on my Kemijärvi trip a year ago when I found the Cosina from a flea market. Back then when I didn't even know if I could get any results with the Cosina. I forgot to mention that the 36 frame film I used was Fujifilm 200 ISO. (I better edit that info to the post.)
I can't wait to photograph and get developed all the 12 frames I can take with the Felica and 120 film. I still have 5 unexposed frames left and I don't even know if the camera is okay. Not leaking light too much or is the lens okay. But we'll see that, someday.
thank you for the info :-)
Lots of lovely shots, but it's the oat field for me 📷
Thanks! It truly was magnificent. And tried to capture it in to a tiny frame. :D
Nice! I'm loving those cameras. I have a large host of old "crappy" cameras that I have been experiment with, too. My next is going to be a Zenith Comet with 127 film!
Googling... Oh my! That is a very fascinating looking piece! Old cameras are such a delight and although my brain knows photography was invented more than 100 years ago, it really baffles me that the technique still works. But of course it works!
Crappy cameras are the best because if I bought an old piece over... I don't know 50 or perhaps over 100 euros, I would never dare to use it because I would constantly be afraid that I would break it and you just can't go and buy a new similar from a shop nearby.
They absolutely are the best! Sometimes the results are great! Sometimes not so much, but always fun.
I agree, I think it's mind boggling that 100+ year old cameras worked then, as well as now. I think that in and of itself is a reason why I'm so fascinated with them.
And the fact that really old cameras are so simple that even I can repair them. And I don't have to worry about little dust ruining everything or parts breaking because I may not have that much clue what I'm doing when I take it apart. Fortunately the metal parts are so sturdy that even I can't break it. Or if they bend, it's all fixable. I just bend it back. Like old cars are made of metal, not plastic. And not a hint of computers in them. 😁