Rembrandt portrait camera questions

[dsphotog]

Are you sure Dagor77 hasn't already beat you to this story?

Thanks Jim, this actually did make me "laugh out loud".

[John Kasaian]

I need a reading comprehension class.

What I meant was how many film holders would have accompanied the camera as it nested in it's case. Sorry for the confusion.

[John Kasaian]

Are you sure Dagor77 hasn't already beat you to this story?

Sadly, Artara isn't one of the characters. I'm sure I'd hear from Dagor77's lawyers if she were, lol!

[cowanw]

You could do this yourself, but what the heck
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI3NVgxNDAw/z/oQMAAOSweW5VWt~Q/$_35.JPG
http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...aJ52pbzjeg.jpg
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad...b9ba970d-800wi
https://img1.etsystatic.com/074/0/90...71595_r9q8.jpg
especially these

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Or have the characters father give her a ww1 cartridge case that fits. This was commonly done. I keep a cooke lens in a small one today.
If the photographer is travelling maybe she would use a grafmatic film holder

[Drew Bedo]

Unless there is the story depends on the csmera being a Rembrandt model view camera . . .why not go with another model with more documentation? Any of the natural finish wood "field' cameras look geat if prestine. Choose a model that folds up and find one on an online resource that is a complete set.

There are several on E-Bay right now. Deardorffs and Kodak 2D, etc. Do the research and see what lenses were period for the camera. some caded sets come with film holders and other things.

Again: Is it crucial to the story that the camera be a Rembrandt?

[John Kasaian]

Unless there is the story depends on the csmera being a Rembrandt model view camera . . .why not go with another model with more documentation? Any of the natural finish wood "field' cameras look geat if prestine. Choose a model that folds up and find one on an online resource that is a complete set.

There are several on E-Bay right now. Deardorffs and Kodak 2D, etc. Do the research and see what lenses were period for the camera. some caded sets come with film holders and other things.

Again: Is it crucial to the story that the camera be a Rembrandt?

Nope, not critical. It just reinforces the idea of being portrait camera with the reader.

[cowanw]

here is this. The home portrait Deardorff.
http://deardorffcameras.0catch.com/hp/hp.html

[John Kasaian]

here is this. The home portrait Deardorff.
http://deardorffcameras.0catch.com/hp/hp.html

Thanks for the tip---this might fit in well with the plot. The protagonist wins the camera cheap at a police property book auction so it would have to be a camera collectors wouldn't be after. Although a Deardorff, the Home Portrait model doesn't seem to have much of a fan cub.

[A_Tabor]

One thing to remember about general auctions is that what things actually go for is highly dependent on who is there and bidding on stuff. Former classmate apparently picked up a pile of 'old' camera gear for $25 in an estate sale. Everyone else there was gunning for the antique furniture, and no one else had half a clue about cameras, so it had all been tossed into two lot boxes. One labeled 'miscellaneous film camera equipment', and he was the only one who bid on it, and the other was "Professional digital camera gear", and a few grandmothers fought over the canon rebels with kit lenses up to $500 or something, probably thinking it was a great gift for a grandkid.

So he got $30k or so in glass and high end medium format and compact range finder cameras.

The glorious thing about this from a writer's stand point is that you can stuff nearly anything in a lot box that no one else happens to be interested in, and it becomes perfectly reasonable from the reader's stand point.

[Drew Bedo]

Nope, not critical. It just reinforces the idea of being portrait camera with the reader.

Well, the 2D series were primarily used for portraits. There is no tilt or swing on the front standard. The Deardorffs and others were capable of more sophisticated work and cost more. The US military used many 2Ds for portrait work yet had a few 'Dorffs for more demanding situations. Examples of the Kodak 2D can be found with storage case and accessories on line.