| Comments: | I spent over an hour exploring your site and enjoyed many of the features you offered for viewing. Your Do It Yourself section was very informative. Your showing the cameras that were used for different photos was ingenious.
Thank you and keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Matthew R. Isenburg |
| City: | Hadlyme, CT |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | In Japan in 1946 at the Isetan Diamond Horsehoe EM club we used flash POWDER and a Japanese made flash pan much like the pictures of the Agfa one. When the guy with the flash said NOW several of us would open our lenses for a photo. The place had a high ceiling, had been an ice rink before the war. |
| Name: | Melvin Smith |
| City: | BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOMA |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | Good evening W-
Beeutifull! I'm attending collodion foto camp. Do you know of any cameras for sale or trade? Regards- jsc |
| Name: | Joseph Chamberlin |
| City: | New Rochelle, NY 10801 |
| Country: | America |
| Comments: | Dear Sir, Thank you for showing what camera actually took what picture. So easy to do but nobody does it. Very interesting site and it was a pleasure to explore-! Thank you |
| Name: | CWS |
| City: | San Francisco |
| Country: | United States |
| Comments: | I have an old KW (9x12mm) camera. It is in good shape and I would like to make photographs with it, but I do not have film holders. Where can I get some? Are they available? |
| Name: | Andrew Tyshynsky |
| City: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | Hi, I very much like your camera! I wanted to tell you that the process is actually called collodion and not collodium. There are many out there doing this process today and you will be more easily searched if using "collodion" Thank you! |
| Name: | Bill |
| City: | Detroit |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | Thanks for sharing your visual world. Entering to your site is like reading on someone that have developed seeing through a trained mind. Hope you will keep growing into the fourth dimension and bring some images from there ! |
| Name: | miguel coquis |
| City: | paris |
| Country: | france |
| Comments: | Excelent !!! Please keep it growing. |
| Name: | Bill Davidson |
| City: | Buenos Aires |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Comments: | Hello Wagner Lungov,
I read your webpage about Rebuild a Thornton Pickard Shutter with great interest. I bought recently (a bit by accident) a wooden camera circa 8 x 10" (1). Most wood is fine. The Ground glass was broken, but that is replaceable. But also the shutter was not working any more Now I am going to repair the shutter. The dismantling is done. The cloth is very stiff. The lensboard and housing from the shutter need some repairs, so I glue and fit new small wood parts in it. Now I'm busy with the finish with a real shellac polish. That's nearly done, and it looks like new. Now is coming the difficult part. The new shutter cloth. The did not make the cloth myself as you wrote. But bought it new on the Ebay (the cloth from "Microtools" (3) was to small and expensive) I found an explanation how to repair the shutter here (2). Looks to my a bit "wild" repairman I not absolutely sure how I fix the bamboo sticks, and also the begin and end point. The man who's selling the cloth says I have to use self-adhesive sheets. You wrote that you use a Multi Use 3M glue. I can't find exactly what kind of glue this is. It seems it's a contact adhesive like Bison Kit® Universal (4). Brands for adhesive are in every country different. Here in the Netherland is Bison a very popular brand. I'am especially interested in long term stability. After repair the shutter, it should also work fine after 10-20 years! I think contact adhesive and self-adhesive sheets are not very reliable. I prefer : ”Glue made of bones” for wood (5), or 2 component epoxy or polyurethane. (Bison "Epoxy Universal" and "Polyurethane adhesive" (4)) Does your repairs’ still working fine? What do you think what's the best adhesives to glue the cloth? The original shutter is stitched but I see also glue. When my shutter is working again, I'll make some picture for on my website. (6) Greetings from the Netherlands: Clemens Mug (1) http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250237726842 (2) http://members.optusnet.com.au/~paulewins/resources/tp_shutter.htm (3) http://www.micro-tools.com/ (4) http://www.bison.net/US/en/index.do (5) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Beenderlijmkorrels.jpg?uselang=nl (6) |
| Name: | mug |
| City: | grunn |
| Country: | netherlands |
| Comments: | Wagner,
A Fernanda Carvalho me passou o endereço do seu site. Fiquei "besta" com as suas fotos. São lindíssimas. Ando apaixonada por fotos e as suas são muito especiais. Que maravilha ter este olhar. E que família linda também. Já admirava você pela sua bicicleta... e agora ainda mais por suas fotos. Um grande abraço |
| Name: | Flavia Moraes |
| City: | Sao Paulo |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Comments: | Fala Wagner,
Algumas fotos eu já conhecia daquele tempo....teu estilo continua inconfundível. Abraços |
| Name: | Bernardo Juan Arenas Castro |
| City: | Jundiaí |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Comments: | i got to your website by putting ' kodak retina automatic III' into the google machine. really nice, i love the camera gallery especially that you can see how the pictures look taken by this particular camera, i've never saw someting like that. thank you. |
| Name: | johannes |
| City: | munich |
| Country: | germany |
| Comments: | Wagner: It was a pleasure to visit your website. I´m also user and collector of old cameras, as well as a photographer who uses them. I´m really glad that your site exists. Well done! Keep Up this good job. ernestolepiscopo@yahoo.com.ar |
| Name: | Ernesto J. L´Episcopo |
| City: | Buenos Aires |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Comments: | Found your site by chance after Googling for info on Olympus 35DC. Nice site - I've bookmarked it for further browsing. Best wishes, David Cass |
| Name: | David Cass |
| City: | North Shore City, Auckland |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Comments: | your site is oh so interesting and rewarding.I have many of the cameras you have but have never been as creative as you have.My son [keen classic photographer and young] also loves the site. |
| Name: | chris murray |
| City: | morbihan |
| Country: | france |
| Comments: | I WAS RECENTLY GIVEN ONE OF THESE ZEISS IKOPHOT METERS ALONG WITH A MINOLTA AUTOCORD TWIN LENS CAMERA BOTH FROM THE EARLY 50'S FROM WHAT I WAS TOLD.IT APPEARS THAT THEY HAVE SEEN VERY LITTLE USE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT IF THEY ARE MARKETABLE OR SOUGHT AFTER ? |
| Name: | DAVID YARMISH |
| City: | PRINCE GEORGE B.C. |
| Country: | CANADA |
| Comments: | You´ve done one of the best photo / camera webbsites on the net. It is musical and shows a lot of respect for the pictures and items. Thank you! |
| Name: | Björn Fredén |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Comments: | Great reading about the Bessamatic...I just bought one; can't wait to get it out there!! Thanks for your help!! |
| Name: | Martin de Cayless |
| City: | Narbonne |
| Country: | South of France |
| Comments: | I Have a "sixtomat" light meter like the one on your site Where would I obtain an instruction guide for it please My Email is jsinicola@optusnet.com.au
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| Name: | Raphael Sinicola |
| City: | Lochinvar NSW |
| Country: | Australia |
| Comments: | |
| Name: | Raphael Sinicola |
| City: | Lochinvar NSW |
| Country: | Australia |
| Comments: | very interesting and exhaustive research on the agfa magnesium flash. Cool! |
| Name: | Nick Czudyjowycz |
| City: | Waterloo |
| Country: |
| Comments: | Very nice potos! Thanks! |
| Name: | IGOR-NZ |
| City: | |
| Country: | Europe |
| Comments: | Very nice potos! Thanks! |
| Name: | IGOR-NZ |
| City: | |
| Country: | Europe |
| Comments: | Excellent. Enjoyed the visit. More please. ...and that teapot is creepy, yet interesting. |
| Name: | Scott |
| City: | Sunny California |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | As an ex photographic rep (Hanimex,Canon) in Australia I have a Contina in pristine condition in my collection.Must give it a try after seeing the pictures.Just love these old time machines .best wishes |
| Name: | Richard Dodson |
| City: | 1 Newburgh Crt.,Point Cook ,Victoria |
| Country: | Australia 3030 |
| Comments: | I just love your website. It is a noble pursuit. Of course I love all things photographic especially when they are older than I am. Thanks again and good luck. |
| Name: | Greg B |
| City: | new york |
| Country: |
| Comments: | Hi Wagner, I wrote an article on Camerapedia.org about the Olympus 35 DC. I remember reading your overview of that camera long time ago, so I am including a link to your page in the article. I hope you do not mind. Thanks! |
| Name: | Will Gunadi |
| City: | Dallas |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | What is a good price to sell or obtain a EES-2 in excellent condition |
| Name: | Jack A Milavic, Ph.D |
| City: | Melbourne |
| Country: | United States |
| Comments: | Thanks for your venerable articles.
I love classic camera not for emotional outlet but for practical purposes as you do. I'm S. Korean amateur photographer. My web site is http://www.bnwphoto.net. It gatherd B/W photos I have taken. Good luck. |
| Name: | Silver Halide |
| City: | Busan |
| Country: | S. Korea |
| Comments: | Lovely site lovely cameras some of which I have in my collection.will visit again. |
| Name: | chris .r. love |
| City: | March Cambridgeshire |
| Country: | England |
| Comments: | Your site is interesting. Love classic cameras, the Contaflex Super being my all time favourite. This camera just exudes quality in its build. I prefer it even to the Contax, and have owned various Kiev cameras as well. When I take my classic cameras around on my days out they let me dream a little bit of other times and places. I guess the photos are only ever incidental! The really nice thing about being a collector is just trialling the cameras as if the photos are not important. I too read Physics in the UK, and still wonder now about the inexplicableness of our quantum universe and spacetime. It was a pleasure to visit your site. |
| Name: | Malcolm |
| City: | Canterbury |
| Country: | Kent, UK |
| Comments: | Ola, Wagner- tinha uma Retina III C para voce, mas perdemos o contato. Se houver alguma doacao, como fazer chegar ate voce?
Abracos |
| Name: | Naum Wiadacz |
| City: | Sao Paulo |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Comments: | wow the pictures on this page are incredible. what exactly is the "candle story..." |
| Name: | Chelsea |
| City: | ohio |
| Country: | US |
| Comments: | Thank you for sharing information about the Weston Master III light meter. |
| Name: | Carolyn |
| City: | San Diego |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | In the parking lot, where I work in Seattle, I saw a box marked "free".
I looked in the box....bric a brac....old cassettes. Except for the Voigtlander Vito B camera with leather case. Haven't loaded flm in yet. Been kinda gloomy in Seattle. Waiting for a nice day to play with camera When I do I will post some photos on my blog antmanbee.blogspot.com Got some pics up there(cats) taken with Olympus Trip 35 I found at Goodwill for three bucks |
| Name: | antmanbee@gmail.com |
| City: | Seattle |
| Country: | U.S.A |
| Comments: | I have one, and thanks for the information about diaphot |
| Name: | Renato de Aguiar |
| City: | Rio de janeiro |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Comments: | I have a sixtomat gossen identical to the one shown, mine has a leather case (ricoh) and a long snake chain in matching gold to hang around your neck. any idea what it is worth and if any one is interested in it. works perfectly and in great shape
lsquires@shaw.ca |
| Name: | les |
| City: | alberta |
| Country: | canada |
| Comments: | really do like this site.informed , intelligent comments and , to me , interesting photograps.i too havae a classic collection , with many of the same cameras , Yashica 44 , Canonet , Zeiss Ikonta .(But you have not yet discovered the Nikon F2 - shame ! ) |
| Name: | chris murray |
| City: | worthing |
| Country: | U K |
| Comments: | I have inherited a rolleiflex by F&H, 1:2.8..f=6cm..heidoskop anastigmat..Nr 150319, 2447216..carl Zeiss Jena..Nr 1353464 tessar 1.28..I dont know much about cameras, if u could provide more info on it I would really appreaciate it..thank u in advance..my email is tomellen2000@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Tom |
| City: | montreal |
| Country: | canada |
| Comments: | Thank you the info.on the Diaphot exposure meter..I have just purchased it from Russia..... |
| Name: | Allen |
| City: | Rochester |
| Country: | England |
| Comments: | hey man how'd ya get this sweet form on your site?
Drewdupont@gmail.com |
| Name: | Drew Dupont |
| City: | Stillwater |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | Very nice classic camera site. I did a google search for a 24cm Voigtlander Heliar and your page come up. good backround information on the Heliar lenses. I just got one exactly like yours. So it was a pleasant surprise to see same lens and shutter staring at me on the webpage. Have you tried your lens out yet? |
| Name: | Scott |
| City: | Carlsbad |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | The Goerz Frontar lens on the Box Tengor is a two element lens, an achromat. ;-) |
| Name: | Patric |
| City: | |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Comments: | Hi from NYC,... Your page on the candle story is remarkable and extremely useful. I learnt a lot. You must be a professor or a scientist...Light is fascinating, evaluating/measuring it to "spread" it on paper quite an art and magical at the same time. May be the poesie (in French in the text) photography starts right there? My dream is to be able to shoot (outdoor) w/o any light meter...to free myself from that contingency. I use a Canon P, and right now a Gossen Pilot...but understanding the EV scale was a step in the right direction. I think the candle scale make total sense and cannot see why it is not in use anymore...
A bientot Christophe / cpg_guillemot@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Christophe Guillemot |
| City: | Brooklyn, New York |
| Country: | USA |
| Comments: | Comme je suis un collecteur de caméra Kodak, je trouve votre site très intéressant.
J'ai même trouvé sur votre un modèle Retina I mais le mien a été fabriqué au USA et le boîtier est fait en Allemagne. J'aimerais recevoir vos commentaires. Merci lessardandre@msn.com |
| Name: | ANDRE LESSARD |
| City: | ST-REDEMPTEUR (QUEBEC) |
| Country: | CANADA |
| Comments: | I have two Voigtlanders. One is the Vito B Pronto and the other is the Bessamatic with a Voigtlander Zoomar 1:2.8 f= 36mm....82mm . Do you have any paper work for these or instructions. Please e-mail to barias48@peoplepc.com thanks |
| Name: | Bud Arias |
| City: | phoenix |
| Country: | United States |
| Comments: | So beautyful work... I'm planning to use my father's Voigtlander BessaII (I own Nikons 35mm) I'm fascinating by that camera and looking for news about it I found your site. I discovered a "new world" and genuine PHOTOGRAPHY. Thanks and regards. Giorgio Cecca (kye@libero.it) |
| Name: | Giorgio Nunzio Cecca |
| City: | Barletta |
| Country: | Italia |
| Comments: | how can i use weston master III in my studio i`d like u to replye me as soon as possible thanks |
| Name: | studio nabil |
| City: | mansoura |
| Country: | egypt |
| Comments: | Hello, nice to meet you! |
| Name: | fasdf932 |
| City: | |
| Country: |
| Comments: | Thank you!!! You helped me very much!!! :) |
| Name: | -= Shtativ |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | Russia |
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