Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I decided to have a bit of a day shooting and processing photos from my Bencini Comet S
The Bencini Comet S is a 127 roll film camera from the very early 1950's
It is about as simple a camera as they come, 1/50th of a second or bulb are the only shutter speeds, f11 the only aperture!
It takes 4x3 half frame photos on 127 film, but since there doesnt seem to be half frame markings on the backing of the Efke 100 film I only managed to get 8 shots instead of the possible 16!
Ive never used 127 film before, and in fact until a few weeks back I didnt know it was still available!
I bought some from "photo supplies UK" (more here http://www.realphotographersforum.com/content/574-source-127-film-uk.html)
Here is the camera (photos taken with canon 30d & asahi smc takumar 55mm 1.8)
Tiny little view finder that according to my photos doesnt cover the whole FOV of the lens
The shutter button is the tall thin one, the winder the big knob on the left
2 windows on the back, not sure why ... but i do wonder if I had lined up the number in the first window, taken a shot, then lined it up in the second window and taken a shot that might have gotten me the 16 shots??
The lever on the side of the lens sets it to bulb if pulled out
Each side sports a fairly over engineered for the size of the camera strap loop
And Here are the photos ... 2 didnt come out, too dark ... oops
In fact they are all a little underexposed ... winter light is darker than I thought
Developed in ilfosol 3 for 8 mins
I have bumped the contrast a little, but not much... And really only to a point that they look as they appear to be on the negs...
The scanner seems to sap the contrast when scanning in the required unconventional way...
scanned by selotaping them to the glass of my scanner, Ive included the edge of the frame to the point that you can see the frame count in places ...
All in all, a very pleasing way to spend a new years day!
The Bencini Comet S is a 127 roll film camera from the very early 1950's
It is about as simple a camera as they come, 1/50th of a second or bulb are the only shutter speeds, f11 the only aperture!
It takes 4x3 half frame photos on 127 film, but since there doesnt seem to be half frame markings on the backing of the Efke 100 film I only managed to get 8 shots instead of the possible 16!
Ive never used 127 film before, and in fact until a few weeks back I didnt know it was still available!
I bought some from "photo supplies UK" (more here http://www.realphotographersforum.com/content/574-source-127-film-uk.html)
Here is the camera (photos taken with canon 30d & asahi smc takumar 55mm 1.8)
Tiny little view finder that according to my photos doesnt cover the whole FOV of the lens
The shutter button is the tall thin one, the winder the big knob on the left
2 windows on the back, not sure why ... but i do wonder if I had lined up the number in the first window, taken a shot, then lined it up in the second window and taken a shot that might have gotten me the 16 shots??
The lever on the side of the lens sets it to bulb if pulled out
Each side sports a fairly over engineered for the size of the camera strap loop
And Here are the photos ... 2 didnt come out, too dark ... oops
In fact they are all a little underexposed ... winter light is darker than I thought
Developed in ilfosol 3 for 8 mins
I have bumped the contrast a little, but not much... And really only to a point that they look as they appear to be on the negs...
The scanner seems to sap the contrast when scanning in the required unconventional way...
scanned by selotaping them to the glass of my scanner, Ive included the edge of the frame to the point that you can see the frame count in places ...
All in all, a very pleasing way to spend a new years day!
