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CRAP!
Yet again brickman has been to the auctions and picked up another boot load of cameras, FFS have to stop doing this :s
1st up, found a really interesting kodak, never seen/heard of this one before, its a Kodak Recomar 18 - with a zeiss tessar lens no less - folds up tiny just about the size of a galaxy S3, but about 3x the thickness and weight (fits in a jacket pocket). Yet its a full blown 6.5x9cm medium format camera with rise/fall and side to side (forget the term?), and a pop out viewing shade on the back, really trick! But shutter is stuck between speeds, so its another for the 'will fix it one day' pile, glass is sex clean.
Comes in a slightly larger (TLR type) case with about 6 slides for it. However the week befores auction there was a 6x9 RADA rollfilm back (NOS) and I was going to get it, but then forgot, went for £2 in with a pile of other NOS random stuff. But now I really really could do with it as it would allow me to use a bunch of these plate cameras with standard 120 roll film, grrrrr. I'm trying to work out who bought it as they will likely just chuck it out, damn!
Next up, the big one, might have spent slightly too much on it, but its like bloody new. Approx 1920-1935 Thornton Pickard Reflex, takes a 1/4 plate (2.5x4"ish) and comes in its own hard/leather travel case with 6 or 8 single plate holders.
Now, large format view type cameras are common, but never knew that it was even possible to make an SLR large format, but thats what it is!
Handles a bit like a TLR on steroids as its around 4x the size of a rollei/yashica 120 TLR.
You can view on the back via the plate/ground glass but its obviously flipped vertically, or via the mirror and the viewing hood (soft leather) (which has a square plate as you can flip the internal mirror + plate holder 90 degrees to take landscape profile photos.
Shutter even claims it goes up to 1/1000 which I seriously doubt for a roll shutter, but still it tries. Operates very easily, and can take various lenses if you can bothered to change them, though the stock cooke 150mm gives the equiv of about 50-60mm in 35mm terms?
Can't wait to use the damn thing, though again wish I had a roll film holder and a decent scanner.