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His camera is 100 years old...
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What a thought provoking video.
The camera reminds me of the old wet process photographers that went round in a horse drawn wagon which was their darkroom. The man in the video have a lovely (locally made?) equivalent of an 'instant camera'. Simply wonderful
The camera reminds me of the old wet process photographers that went round in a horse drawn wagon which was their darkroom. The man in the video have a lovely (locally made?) equivalent of an 'instant camera'. Simply wonderful
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That made a change thanks for posting
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Great find. In 1957I had my first passport photo made with an essentially similar camera & process, whipping off the lens cover in lieu of a shutter etc. The photo was (and is) greenish. On the Main Street, Tawahi, Aden Colony
, I’d gone there without needing a passport of course but thanks to “Suez” had to take a different route back to U.K. 
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Thanks a lot, my wife has seen it now and you can guess what she said about my next camera purchase
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) using daylight paper(I think properly called ‘printing out paper’) so halfway to Polaroid.
There are still people doing that horse and cart thing but with vans — isn’t there a man who has adapted the whole van to be the camera?
However, I think the nicest thing about the original video is that the camera looks to have been knocked up from bits of spare wood. Oh, and the fact that it is in Afghanistan! I remember seeing an article somewhere about an Afghan photographer during the Taliban rule who specialised in portraits of Taliban Fedayeen and their ‘boyfriends‘ in their best attire.
The first photography I did with my Folding Kodak Brownie was printing in a frame on a sunny window sill (it was always sunny back thenAh hmmmm! Post #7
) using daylight paper(I think properly called ‘printing out paper’) so halfway to Polaroid.There are still people doing that horse and cart thing but with vans — isn’t there a man who has adapted the whole van to be the camera?
However, I think the nicest thing about the original video is that the camera looks to have been knocked up from bits of spare wood
. Oh, and the fact that it is in Afghanistan! I remember seeing an article somewhere about an Afghan photographer during the Taliban rule who specialised in portraits of Taliban Fedayeen and their ‘boyfriends‘ in their best attire.