For 5 pounds....

[Dan Cattermole]

.......I picked up this Kodak six-20 folding brownie from the car boot today

The lens was a bit dirty and very murky, so three screws and a plate later, soon revealed a simple single fixed positive meniscus lens (glorified name for a bit of convex-concave magnifying glass I believe) so cleaning was child's play.

Due to the cost of 620 film that I've seen, I think I'm going to get some ilford 120 and spool me a couple of rolls, get out and about and SHOOOOT!!!!!!!!!

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Oh, and get me a viewfinder piece to go with it too

 

[Hamish Gill]

Have you seen Davids tutorial on trimming 120 film
http://www.realphotographersforum.com/content/841-fitting-120-film-into-620-camera-guide.html

nice find for a fiver ... Where did it come from?

 

[Dan Cattermole]

That's the badger! Looking for that thread. Ta

Car booty bargain this was, some middle/old aged gent who had a few 35mm Minolta's, a brownie box and this...
Nice chap, talked a bit about cameras, almost like it was a long lost forgotten passion of his.
For some reason, he was selling an 'exposed tagged' 620 roll without realising I think. I asked him how come he was discarding 'memories' and questioned whether he'd be interested in developing it.... Then soon took it off the table. Good for him!
But then, people do sell exposed film though don't they?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Which car boot?
We went to the Chris's one today and the little vintage stuff one in town ... Nothing of any interest to be found

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Result!

Looks in good nick Dan - bellows especially

Where does the memory card go again?

 

[Hamish Gill]

No idea ... Do they? ... Why?? ...

edit: the above was in response to the bit about exposed film

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Yeah, I looked on eBay, and the 620 film I seem was cheap...... But then revealed having the 'exposed' sealing tag all over it. Bizarre, can people be bothered developing their film? I didn't know whether this was a regular thing or not. But to see it twice in a day...

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Oh, it was the Ketch car booty H. Fields were pretty boggin!

 

[Pete Askew]

You was robbed son! (THis thread needed a bit of dissent!).

Chris, you should already have a compatible memory 'card' in your head - or had you forgotten!

 

[David Mitchell]

Yay another MF folder I had fun with my Bessa, ive developed the film but need to scan it in but its cool that you can have that sort of awesome camera but it folds up enough to put into your pocket

 

[Chris Dodkin]

You was robbed son! (THis thread needed a bit of dissent!).

Chris, you should already have a compatible memory 'card' in your head - or had you forgotten!

I have problems with memory leaks Pete!