Friday 7 January 2011

Old Camera Rescued!


This story appeared in a Manchester newspaper.

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Retro Camera manual Pictures





A selection of graphics from the KOCC archive!
There will be a new photo competition soon...stay tuned!

Tuesday 20 April 2010

World's First working see-through Camera!




KOCC member Jon Legge has made a break through- a working pinhole transparent camera. Created by wrapping 'Safelight' sticky tape round a 35mm Rank Mamiya camera (a recent KOCC acquisition) as a former, cutting the sticky tape 'shell' off and fitting a pinhole. Because the red tape is designed for black and white darkroom use, the camera, while see-through, is safe for the B/W paper neg. Here are images of the camera, and a negative and positive image; the slight fogging is due to an ill fitting lid rather than any problem with the tape itself.

Thursday 28 May 2009

Big Pixels

Ok I happened to be flicking through the web and came across this monster!.  

A digital camera being mentioned in this the KOCC blog I hear you halide-ites shout, yes I know I know! but I thought it was worth a mention as its hooooooooge





A digital panoramic camera with no less than 160 million pixels (huge files averaging around the 800 mb mark)

To give you an idea of its size ...............

There are large zip files as examples should you wish to download and check the quality of the panoramic beast

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Camera Van.......



Interesting van mod covered in cameras, mainly polaroids and yep the cameras work (unlike some of ours)


Check link/s for more info and extra images


Images taken with Van Cam's


This being my personal fave



he he granny riot!




KOCC 3 Is in session

A quickie post to say that the 3rd KOCC draw has been made


Camera selections are:

Kodak Brownie Six-20
Zorki 4
Kodak Retinette
Kershaw  6x6
Canonette

As ever all is anon at this stage. Best of luck...............

Tuesday 12 May 2009

KOCC 2 Entries & Winners

Sorry for the late posting I've been on leave an not been able to keep up to date with everything and so as a result we've got the entries and a winner all in one post.

The results are as follows:

A (David) 92 votes
B (Ferdi) 85 votes
C (Jon) 103 votes
D (Laura) 93 votes
E (George) 62 votes
 


A close call for second place and yes we had a recount just to be sure.

Making Entry 'C' the winner

Well done Jon



His winning pic of  ' Poles '






We Shall NOT!


Ahem......



Below are the other (worthy) entries and it would seem that we have all improved since our first outing. I'd also like to admit that all but one entry was outputted digitally. 






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