{"id":326,"date":"2006-09-18T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=326"},"modified":"2009-10-09T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:18:17","slug":"kodak_retina_reflex_iv_retro_photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2006\/09\/18\/kodak_retina_reflex_iv_retro_photography.php","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Retina Reflex IV Retro photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered about doing my own development of black and white film and full manual cameras but never succumbed to the temptation, till now.<br \/>\nThis weekend I picked up a Kodak Retina Reflex IV camera, it&#8217;s in mint condition, original box and manual included.  It&#8217;s missing a lens cap which might pose to be a big hassle as they don&#8217;t have what we now consider standard threads on its lens.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ripienaar\/245271468\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/retina_iv.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"_DSC0363\" border=0 \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe camera is really amazingly built, the full mechanical operation is really impressive and while the ergonomics of using it is totally dismal compared to my Nikon SLR&#8217;s I think it&#8217;s quite manageable.<br \/>\nI bought it spur of the moment for GBP50 and just popped a color 35mm roll into it for some testing, the results aren&#8217;t bad at all:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ripienaar\/sets\/72157594289570228\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/retina_sample_1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" alt=\"retina-1-2\" border=0\/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nSo my intention with this is to go down the route of black and white film and do my own development, I probably won&#8217;t do printing since we have a really good negative scanner here and the printing equipment requires lots of space and a dark room and all that, things I don&#8217;t have.<br \/>\nMore information about this range of cameras can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak_Retina\">Wikipedia<\/a>.  The stall I got this one from had one of each of the 4 models made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered about doing my own development of black and white film and full manual cameras but never succumbed to the temptation, till now. This weekend I picked up a Kodak Retina Reflex IV camera, it&#8217;s in mint condition, original box and manual included. It&#8217;s missing a lens cap which might pose to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}