Archive for the ‘Baldwinsville’ Category

Wildflower Bokeh

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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Wildflower in Beaver Lake State Park, Three Meadows trail. Canon 40d, 50mm f1.8 II.

Expired Film - Dragonfly

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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Taken with a Kodak Brownie Fiesta on expired (Nov 1962) Montgomery Ward Panchromatic 127 film, developed in Diafine.

Brownie Hawkeye Flash - Strawberry Picking

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

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Bucket of strawberries @ Hafner’s Farm, Baldwinsville, NY.

Kodak Brownie Haweye Flash with a flipped lens; Ilford HP5 Plus developed in Diafine.

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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Kodak Jiffy II

Friday, April 25th, 2008

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The Kodak Jiffy II, a nifty $5 find at a recent garage sale.

A folding 6×9 ’six-20′ camera with two viewfinders (horizontal & vertical), the original Jiffy had a really cool Art-Deco motif; the sequel here just has a plain black faux leather covering. It has a ‘twindar’ lens with two focus settings: ‘5-10ft’ & ‘beyond 10ft’; two shutter speeds: ‘I’ (about 1/60) and ‘T’ (bulb) and two apertures as well.

It needed some TLC after I purchased it. After a thorough cleaning, the biggest problems were a sticky shutter and folding mechanism. Careful application of some ball-bearing oil resolved both issues. As Kodak discontinued  its ’six-20′ film for quite some time now, I trimmed the plastic spindle on a roll of 120 film and used the metal 620 take up spool that came with the camera.

Taking it out for a spin, I was pleasantly surprised by the results.

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The Oneida river. Shot with the Kodak Jiffy II with a yellow filter on Rollei Retro 400, developed in Diafine.

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A CSX spur, near where I live. Same soup.