Film: Been a while . . .

[Jim Galli]

Extra points for the first person to identify the car. 21 1/4" Kodak Process Ektanon and the camera is a Kodak Improved #2 Full Plate format which is 6½X8½ inch film. This is not art, it is relaxation. It has been almost a year since I've set up a camera. I had a new 2 me Voigtlander Heliar I wanted to shoot but the film holder had leaks so those were spoiled. But the mighty Kodak (yes, virginia, it is 540mm focal length) landed the photons onto the film just fine. Exposure was controlled by a Packard shutter which is a bulb and piston affair inside the camera. It can manage 1/20th second or so but these were all in the1/5th to 4 second range. Film is Agfa Aviphot 200 rated at 125.

If you want the camera and lens and a couple of film holders come to Tonopah and I'll include a lesson in the bargain.

Jim Galli, Tonopah, Nevada

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Jim,

Glad to hear from you.

As to the car, I have no idea, but I do like the rear "cozy wing" (as my mother used to call those openable triangular vent windows, especially in the front where they were at one time almost ubiquitous).

Carla and I are also in the high desert now, in Alamogordo, N.M., but I'm sure it is a bit more "metropolitan" than Tonopah (population about 32k, but for example no Target store or Olive Garden restaurant). Elevation here is 4575 ft MSL on my desktop, a bit lower than Tonopah, as I recall. I think we have about the same amount of rain annually (maybe 6").

Take care.

Doug