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Jakov Minić

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pocket size camera
« on: February 06, 2016, 18:14:05 »
This is a Kodak K-24 US Air Force Camera with Aero-Ektar f2.5, 178 mm, 5x5 lens.
I am so happy I am not lugging it around :)
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2016, 18:19:05 »
hahaha, looks like the first ' mobile'  Phones   ;) 
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2016, 18:20:05 »
That probably was a "short" focal length, ie. wide angle .... Imagine the heft and bulk of a really long lens for such cameras.

In my former scientist days, I worked a lot with 24x24 cm aerial photographs. Their amount of detail was staggering.
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2016, 18:44:51 »
what I want to know is - that little flash - what is that suppose to do....
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Jakov Minić

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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2016, 18:47:33 »
Quote from: elsa hoffmann on February 06, 2016, 18:44:51
what I want to know is - that little flash - what is that suppose to do....
I think that's the viewfinder :)
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2016, 19:13:00 »
I took this picture with a Aero Ektar f2,5 178 mm, mounted on a Speed Graphic. Wonderful bokeh! I wasn't able to pocket the camera and lens of course ;)
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2016, 19:17:29 »
Børge, you've just become my idol!
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2016, 19:18:35 »
The mass of the contraption surely helped keep the images free of camera shake, and...you could use the lens to calibrate your Geiger counter.
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2016, 19:28:13 »
The amount of radiation from the lens was easily overshadowed på the share amount of background radiation from the ground here. Radon concentration in the air inside my house is about 100 Bq/m3, so ventilation is always on anyway. Combined with the fallout from the Tsjernobyl meltdown we practically glow in the dark up here :)
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2016, 19:32:42 »
bjørn: A 5x5 qinch is roughly a 4x5 qinch, so 178mm equals a light tele ~60mm in 135-format as the "normal lens" for the 4x5 qinch is 135mm

Borge: What a very cool double portait! I am really emotionally taken and support Jakovs point.
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2016, 20:25:20 »
Nice mirrorless camera,,,  :o
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2016, 21:40:33 »
Apparently the camera has a Hasselblad style roll film back?

Børge, the image looks priceless!
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2016, 22:11:20 »
The picture will hopefully be priceless for my two boys one day. The lens it self is quite bulky and has a limited use since it has no aperture.
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2016, 23:52:49 »
Jakov, batteries and charger for that camera?  :o


  Børge, that is priceless.
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Re: pocket size camera
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2016, 01:22:31 »
Paco, I would have loved to show up in Scotland with that camera regardless of the downsides.
Just to see people laughing at me :)
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