July 23, 2007
Good Night Sunshine
the first offering from my new old camera....
i’ve been shooting all my ttv images with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye...it’s a family heirloom and still in good shape....the main downside, is that it has a very tiny viewfinder...combine that with the fact that i dont have a macro lens, the actual workable image area when shot with my 50mm prime is miniscule....
i was really happy to find a cheap Argus 75 at Zern’s... this bad boy has a large, bright viewfinder that doubled, if not tripled my image area...now we’re talkin...!
it is a lot easier to work with, and the images are bigger and more clear...but it’s not all good...i really dont dig the larger rounded corners as compared to subtle ones with the hawkeye...and i found myself thinking that those tiny hawkeye’s images were a large part of the allure of this technique...breaking away from the clean sharp clarity of my normal digital shooting, and experimenting with the opposite side of the spectrum, low-res through an viewfinder with decades old texture....
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