16mm anticipation starts to set in

August 11, 2019August 12, 2019 L.T. HanlonLeave a comment

Photo of a bright yellow box made to hold Kodak 16mm film. Yellow is Kodak's longtimt corporate collor.

Cine-Kodak K-100, Ultra-16, and Bigfoot!

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 L.T. Hanlon4 Comments

Photo of a 1950s-era Cine-Kodak K-100 turret movie camera. This 16mm camera has three lenses on front and a leather-and-polished aluminum body. — **Cine-Kodak K-100 16mm movie camera.**

Photo of a typewritten sheet of paper with the following text. Friday, August 9, 2019. Chicago, USA. It's a big, wide, wonderful world! Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe. Assuming the weather cooperates Saturday and Sunday, I'm going to give my Ultra-16 movie camera a whirl. The camera began life in the 1950s as a Cine-Kodak K-100 Turret, an amateur camera famed for filming countless high school and college football games. A cousin of this camera, the CineKodak K-100 non-turret model, was used to capture the Patterson—Gim1in bigfoot film in 1967. These 16mm cameras come equipped with a standard gate giving an aspect ratio of about 4:3. However, the Cine—Kodak Is one of several camera models that can be modified so that wasted film space is exposed to create a 16:9 image. I had this updating done just after we moved down to this condo — or up, actually, since we're on the 54th Floor. Until now, however, I just haven't had the time, interest, or inclination to lace up the camera and put it through its paces. I only have one 100—foot roll of film, so I'll have to be fairly selective about what I film. I'm thinking maybe Lake Shore Drive, North Michigan Avenue, and Oak Street Beach, then some street photography if there's film left. After this project, there's Russian windup Super-8 camera I need to try out. — Oops! That should read “Patterson-Gimlin film.”
Here’s a fascinating Cryptomundo item about the camera and the famous film.

Infected by E-6 color sensibilities

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 L.T. HanlonLeave a comment

Full-Vue camera results are in

February 23, 2019May 5, 2019 L.T. HanlonLeave a comment

Spartus1 — The Full-Vue I bought last month didn’t exactly deliver crisp images. Maybe the overcast day was to blame.
(Photo copyright © Leigh Hanlon)

I just received images back from The Darkroom of test film I shot a couple weeks ago with a Spencer Co. Full-Vue. I still need to do more work with this 120 format faux TLR camera to determine how well it does in brighter conditions.

My choice of film might have caused the less-than-stunning results. I usually get good latitude from Kodak Tri-X, but these photos just didn’t exhibit much shadow detail. I’m thinking Ilford XP2 might yield snappier tones. I also bought some redscale film to try in the Full-Vue, but that’s for a later time.

Overall, I’d say that the Spencer Co.’s camera is slightly less impressive than a Holga.

Other examples from my test roll. . . .

Spartus2 — High up over North Michigan Avenue.
(Photo copyright © Leigh Hanlon)

Spartus3 — Chicago at night.
(Photo copyright © Leigh Hanlon)

Cheap camera honors kindly rich guy

January 6, 2019May 5, 2019 L.T. Hanlon1 Comment

I just bought a Full-Vue camera manufactured by the famous “Chicago Cluster” of companies associated with philanthropist Jack Galter. The companies were located at 711-715 W. Lake St., which seems to be pretty much now in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway. I’m thinking of using this camera to photograph some of the Galter family’s contributions to the world — like Galter Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Galter Life Center at Swedish Covenant.