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Nesster
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 Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject: Kodak Duaflex II |
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Nesster wrote:
A nice vintage consumer snapshot camera, uses 620 film unfortunately. I bought the Duaflex for the TTV (Through The Viewfinder) shooting, but I want to have used each of my cameras the way it was intended, with film, at least once.
Therefore I snipped the lips off the spool of a roll of 120 Ilford Delta 100, to make the spool a bit more 620 like. It was still a tight fit, winding the film got progressively harder (and I got a blister on the side of one finger), till I took my felt-covered pliers to it. The scratches may be from the camera, or from the squeegee I foolishly used.
THe Duaflex is one of those focus free / shutter speed free / aperture setting free "TLR"s that I consider to be mutations of box cameras - the peephole viewfinder morphs larger, the frame becomes square and eliminates the second vf, and the whole thing starts to look more like a TLR than a box. I have a Spartus Six-Twenty I still need to run 1 film through, and a 127 size Kodak Starflex.
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Spotmatic
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Spotmatic wrote:
I like the results! Very eerie, found-film like 
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Katastrofo
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Katastrofo wrote:
Like the first 3, especially #3 with the reflection. Jussi wouldn't develop a
found roll and palm it off as his own, would he?  |
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dof
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dof wrote:
Neat pics!
Is that a minsicus lens on the Duaflex? Or, does Duaflex mean it's a
2-element lens? |
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Nesster
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Nesster wrote:
According to camerapedia, the kodet is a single element meniscus. Like I said, this is actually a morphed box camera. I would think Duaflex refers to the pseudo TLR look, two lens reflex....
I do like the results, but hate Kodak for 620 film. All in all, I'd rather use the real box cameras that take proper 120 film and make 6x9 photos.
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fish4570 wrote:
i like the look, too. i need to take a roll of 120 back to the store and get a roll of 620 for my brownie ...
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