Brian Moore
Moderator
My Cheap As Chips Camera is a Konica Autoreflex TC with a Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.7 lens.
I bought the camera through the "Goodwill Industries" auction. Goodwill is a charitable organization here in the US that is nationwide and has hundreds of stores. They also have an online auction. I won this camera for $11.50. It was pretty grungy, which I didn't know until I picked it up (it looked OK in its online auction photo). Worst of all, the lens had some residue that appeared very much like corrosion of some kind or algae. However, to my delight it cleaned off nicely. Cameras through Goodwill are usually untested so I didn't know if the camera worked either. However, it did, although I had to shoot without a meter since the batteries were long since deceased.
I shot a test roll--I used some cheap color film for that--and the camera worked well, although the glass seemed to produce soft images. For the challenge I shot Ilford Delta 100. I was lucky with the price on the film, as my camera shop sold it to me for $3.99. (I think he had it priced as 120 film.)
My three entry photos were all taken at The Getty Center in Los Angeles on December 31.
After shooting the roll I processed the Delta 100 in Rodinal.
Below is the camera and the empty film canister, along with a filter that I put on the camera because it didn't come with a lens cap.
Here are my three entries:
The Getty at Sundown (30 second exposure at f5.6. I balanced the camera ona wall to steady it)
River of Light (Another 30 second f5.6 exposure. And again I had the camera on a wall for steadiness.)
Ethereal Boy (30 seconds at f2.8 I think. Camera on the ground to steady it.)
I bought the camera through the "Goodwill Industries" auction. Goodwill is a charitable organization here in the US that is nationwide and has hundreds of stores. They also have an online auction. I won this camera for $11.50. It was pretty grungy, which I didn't know until I picked it up (it looked OK in its online auction photo). Worst of all, the lens had some residue that appeared very much like corrosion of some kind or algae. However, to my delight it cleaned off nicely. Cameras through Goodwill are usually untested so I didn't know if the camera worked either. However, it did, although I had to shoot without a meter since the batteries were long since deceased.
I shot a test roll--I used some cheap color film for that--and the camera worked well, although the glass seemed to produce soft images. For the challenge I shot Ilford Delta 100. I was lucky with the price on the film, as my camera shop sold it to me for $3.99. (I think he had it priced as 120 film.)
My three entry photos were all taken at The Getty Center in Los Angeles on December 31.
After shooting the roll I processed the Delta 100 in Rodinal.
Below is the camera and the empty film canister, along with a filter that I put on the camera because it didn't come with a lens cap.
Here are my three entries:
The Getty at Sundown (30 second exposure at f5.6. I balanced the camera ona wall to steady it)
River of Light (Another 30 second f5.6 exposure. And again I had the camera on a wall for steadiness.)
Ethereal Boy (30 seconds at f2.8 I think. Camera on the ground to steady it.)
