Jun 13, 2025
Gearing up for the Crappy Commie Camera Party: The Pentacon Electra 2, #CrappyCommieCameraParty #ShittyCameraChallenge $PentaconElectra #EastGermany
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Gearing up for the Crappy Commie Camera Party: The Pentacon Electra 2, #CrappyCommieCameraParty #ShittyCameraChallenge $PentaconElectra #EastGermany
The meeting
Four chairs. Minolta 24 Rapid. On Flickr © Eben Ostby September 11, 2021 at 07:36AM. All rights reserved
#FrugalFilmProject, an introduction to the Golden Wonder: The Welta Penti II half frame camera
After a week or so fiddling with the Welta Penti II I’ve selected it as this year’s camera for the Frugal Film Project. I’m going to experiment with half-frame. Not just any half-frame, of course, but half-frame with Rapid cassettes. It’s an odd little camera, and not a purchase I’d originally planned to make. On the Kamerastore website I came across a Lomography 75mm glass lens for the Diana F+,…
Yummy
On Flickr © Eben Ostby July 10, 2021 at 07:14AM. All rights reserved
Homewards
Oriskany, across the footbridge On Flickr © Eben Ostby January 01, 2021 at 12:16PM. All rights reserved
Edna, Beulah, and Mildred
Three spinsters On Flickr © Eben Ostby January 03, 2021 at 06:31PM. All rights reserved
Brown and Sharpe
At a nearby machine shop On Flickr © Eben Ostby December 07, 2019 at 07:08PM. All rights reserved
Filling The Gaps: The Bencini Comet Rapid Half-frame Camera
Back in the early 1960s, in response to Kodak’s introduction of its instamatic film system, the European film and camera company Agfa launched the Rapid system. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that they reintroduced their 1940s Karat film system under a new name. Instead of a sealed plastic cassette, the Agfa Rapid system used metal canisters, which contained a length of 35mm film. Inside the…