Here’s another YouTube video. This time, it’s a promo for ONDU Ekian large format camera: youtube.com/watch?v=Y3xKfd…
I’ve seen a lot of Kickstarter videos for many photography-related products. Naturally, larger businesses can afford better footage, but the producers and Elvis Halilović, the founder, seem to have outdone most — if not all. He literally takes a flight at the end of the video.
All to promote a (beautiful) camera. Kinda badass.
I had this camera in the 70’s and early 80’s. Wonderful. I just bought another one recently, and this article was very useful in reminding me of it’s ins and outs. Telling me which batteries to get was essential.
Great article! I think the the ISO dial is placed on top for easy exposure compensation. Most advanced photogs would have no problem calculating one or two stops over or under exposure using that adjustment. I think it was more of a practical than esthetic positioning. Thanks, @Br1anw1x.
ciao, complimenti per l’articolo, vorrei prendere una Penti 0 perché è più bella e più semplice della mia Penti II che credo di aver rotto: cioè chiudendo il dorso si è spostato qualcosa dentro al mirino e ora c’è un pezzo nero che si muove dentro e non vedo più come inquadrare, anche il rettangolo che delimita la corretta inquadratura si è spostato e si muove ogni volta che scatto. C’è un modo di sistemarlo o devo buttare la fotocamera? Grazie
Just finished collecting film June 2023 price data across international retailers. Looks like the average price has gone up by 3.49% since January.
The worst offenders were Kodak T-Max 100 (+15.29%) and Kodak Ektachrome (+12.86%). T-Max 400 and Tri-X are trailing with just over 12% price hikes since January.
But a few films went down in price considerably; Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 now costs 15.06% less — although this may be due to the discontinuation of this particular emulsion and stock clearances. In the following report, I will remove or replace this film with Fujifilm’s presumably rebranded ISO 400 emulsion.
Other films that are still in full production and cost less than six months ago are Kodak UltraMax 400 (-3.30%), Kosmo Foto Mono 100 (-3.32%), and Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia 50 (-0.93%).
Oh yeah, they are surprisingly expensive! Half-frames are a relatively rare breed tho and I haven’t yet seen any other than the Recorder that are pocketable point-and-shoots.
The one I held in hand was actually a little bulkier than some of the full-frame point-and-shoots I tried. But it still looks very nice and makes 72+ frames. I have a really nice scanner that could produce 60MP images from half-frames, so it could really be something.
The Konica Recorder is very high up on my list but for a few years now the cheapest copy I can find with a seller that guarantees it works costs approximately USD300. From what I have read the manual ISO selector takes priority so in essence you can play with underexposure or overexposure.
Even though the process tends to decrease the film’s exposure latitude (less detail) in the darkest corners of the image, the colours can still be made to look good. In this image, it’s pitch-black on either side of my long dog, Noodle. Yet there are no casts, and the colour balance looks natural; as you’d expect, places where the eye can’t see are black, and so they are too in this image.
This is in contrast to the blue and purple hues I saw in Jason’s video, which may be the result of the work done automatically by Negative Lab Pro. (This app usually does an excellent job with colour negative scans, but as the case is with all black-boxed scanning software, it can also diminish the scan’s potential without an easy way to fix the issues).
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