Fun with a Imperial reflex 620: (accidental double exposure)

[MK3Brent]

We were playing with this camera last weekend, not really knowing how much to turn the knob of the film advance.
Looks like it needs 2 full turns to advance each frame.

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with this little TLR.
http://img3.etsystatic.com/004/0/6996302/il_fullxfull.385501131_g15j.jpg

Shot on portra 400.

And used The Darkroom for processing lab, and they did a great job (Film developing & scans for $10 | The Darkroom - 35 years +)

I got caught at the end of the roll. ​

 

[timor]

Looks like a fun. Surprisingly good lens, little low on contrast, but despite fix focus pictures look quite sharp.
But that is an "infamous" camera, Lee Harvey Oswald had one. We know it, as he didn't "hide" his face

 

[vintagesnaps]

Herco/Herbert George made some cool looking midcentury modern cameras - I like this one! It might actually be a viewfinder; many of these were styled to look like TLRs but didn't actually have the twin lenses - the image being projected onto the film is coming thru the same lens as what's being viewed.

Are you able to read the numbers well enough thru the red window? Did you use 120 or 620 film? - with the spools being slightly different in size it can make a difference in the film advancing and wrapping around the spool.

When I load cameras similar to this I usually allow extra film and paper at the start - I try to make sure it's catching and advancing and laying flat before closing the camera. I keep turning and make sure the tension feels taut enough but not too tight or pulling, but more often I find there can be more of a problem with it being too loose. I often end up advancing to #2 to start shooting but I'd rather loose a frame at one end than lose a whole roll (which I've had happen...). Hope you keep enjoying your camera.

 

[Derrel]

Kinda cool! Yeah, those old-school, low-cost TLR's were always a trip. I owned several of them as a kid. Have you seen the new experimental thing, where one builds a small, paper or tube spacer to hold his or her camera right above the viewfinder's eye-area, and then photographs the image from the smooth, bright-screen viewfinder screen that those things had??? It's pretty trippy...the images have a sort of lo-fidelity look to them, and are of course, square.

If I can ever find my old Kodak Duoflex II around here, I will make one of those doggone things and do a few shots of stuff with it.

 

[MK3Brent]

Herco/Herbert George made some cool looking midcentury modern cameras - I like this one! It might actually be a viewfinder; many of these were styled to look like TLRs but didn't actually have the twin lenses - the image being projected onto the film is coming thru the same lens as what's being viewed.

Are you able to read the numbers well enough thru the red window? Did you use 120 or 620 film? - with the spools being slightly different in size it can make a difference in the film advancing and wrapping around the spool.

When I load cameras similar to this I usually allow extra film and paper at the start - I try to make sure it's catching and advancing and laying flat before closing the camera. I keep turning and make sure the tension feels taut enough but not too tight or pulling, but more often I find there can be more of a problem with it being too loose. I often end up advancing to #2 to start shooting but I'd rather loose a frame at one end than lose a whole roll (which I've had happen...). Hope you keep enjoying your camera.

Couldn't see through the red window, no.
It was 120 re-spooled on a 620 spool.

 

[MK3Brent]

Kinda cool! Yeah, those old-school, low-cost TLR's were always a trip. I owned several of them as a kid. Have you seen the new experimental thing, where one builds a small, paper or tube spacer to hold his or her camera right above the viewfinder's eye-area, and then photographs the image from the smooth, bright-screen viewfinder screen that those things had??? It's pretty trippy...the images have a sort of lo-fidelity look to them, and are of course, square.

If I can ever find my old Kodak Duoflex II around here, I will make one of those doggone things and do a few shots of stuff with it.

No! never seen that. sounds cool though.

 

[o hey tyler]

What's with the white box over the persons face?

 

[bsinmich]

The numbering on 620 and 120 is in the same positions. You can use the numbers in the red window.