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Adventures in Film – Part 3
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I’m excited about this one. Growing up I was always so intrigued by one particular camera sitting on the “old cameras” shelf at my house. After some research, I discovered it was made in January of 1953, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash Edition. Super cool camera. I took it back to Fort Wayne with me on my last visit determined to get some frames with it. It was definitely dusty, and I could barely see through the viewfinder to make photographs with. I pushed one roll through exactly as it was (the self portrait is from that roll) just to have an idea what it’d look like after 60+ years (of probably not being cleaned). It technically takes 620 film, but apparently some pre-WWII models can fit a roll of 120 on the loader side, as long as you still have an original 620 spool for the take up side. So it worked. Getting the film on the reel in the darkroom seemed to be nearly impossible, since the 620 spool is much smaller, it coiled the film rather tightly which made it want to give me headaches when processing it. So after the first roll came back murky and cloudy, before getting roll 2 started I took it apart and gave it a thorough cleaning (and I was amazed that there was no corrosion or rust anywhere on the inside). Roll 2 after cleaning came out beautifully, and it was a really exciting thing to see a camera 60 plus years old still making awesome frames. The first image is from roll 1, pre cleaning, then the rest are from roll 2 after cleaning.
The next two frames were made in Marshall, Michigan, at a really awesome 50′s themed restaurant called “Kate’s Diner”
This last frame is just the view from the Hollywood MMA parking lot, home of my “Beyond the Cage” project from last fall (and where I’m currently training mixed martial arts!)
I could eat mexican food every day of the week, I love the show "How It's Made", and I make photographs rather frequently. Leave a comment and let's chat!