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There was a time when street photographers were a mainstay in Afghanistan but, sadly, that is no longer the case today. In this video, Qalam Nabi demonstrates how he shoots and develops photos using a kamra-e-faoree, their version of an instant box camera. Find out how you can make your own here!
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The Baldak Box is a box camera manufactured between 1938 and 1945. See if this "war antique" is still usable right after the jump.
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In Volume 3 of What It Takes, I dive into the world of respooling film to bring back an old bakelite 620 box camera that wants you to think it's a TLR. Spoiler alert: it's not!
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Do you like soft focus? Or soft focus surround? Then check out the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera.
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I found a Kodak Brownie in a junk shop. Cheap it was not but the shutter worked so I took it home.I cleaned it, repaired it, did a film hack, ripped some film, did another test and NOT a brilliant camera. People love this camera.
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I got to borrow this neat old box camera from my mom's guy, since he knows I like cameras and photography! I stuck a roll of film in there, and it worked! I will now talk about the overall experience.
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If GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) is a problem of yours as it is mine, then you must spend a lot of time on the lomography store website or ebay just looking and lusting after cameras. This beautiful, medium format, box camera caught my eye on ebay. It looked so cute and interesting and was selling for just $10. I couldn't help myself and the rest as they say is history.
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The extremely popular Kodak No. 2A Brownie Model C was responsible for popularizing the concept of the snapshot.
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Sometimes, that lovely old box camera on the shelf in the used bookstore/coffee shop works better than you think. This vintage Ansco was surprising, and I mean that in a good way.
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This vintage Brownie camera was produced by Eastman Kodak Company during 1940s.
It’s a simple yet amazing camera uses film 620, which is now almost nowhere to find.
I managed to kick start this antique by modifying the more common film 120 to fit it, read down and see how I did it :)
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Although box cameras have been around since the 1820s, it wasn’t until 1888 that Kodak introduced the first commercially successful box camera using roll film, box cameras to that point used plates such as wet plate collodion or tintype.
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This box camera is just a bit more then a simple box.
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Everyone who enjoy photography has a favourite type of camera. Someone like half-frame cameras for their small size and large number of personnel, others a professional reflex camera, TLR's etc... But I also realized that I love vintage box-cameras.
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Travel back to the earliest days of point and shoot photography--long before Lomography was born. Box cameras were introduced by Kodak in 1900 and became a favorite of amateur photographers for their simplicity and their unique images and are the clear precursor to Diana and Holga cameras we use today.
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Imagine the soft focus of the Diana, the magic touch of the Holga and the awesome sharpness of the Lubitel (creds to Vicuna)... The Mefag Handy-Box is capable of producing astonishingly beautiful, dreamy yet sharp, captures of our world!
