Magazine Cameras: a Photographic Missing Link

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@gametec_live 12 күн бұрын

those intros are amazing, please never stop doing them...

@SurprenantJamesAB1DQ 12 күн бұрын

how cool! I grew up in the late 20th c and have been a hobbyist photographer and camera collector my whole life. How did I never know these existed? I thought this was just going to be another video on brownie type box cameras - any day I learn something new is a good day - today was a GREAT day - thanks & keep up the great work.

@RCAvhstape 12 күн бұрын

"Link in the description" Please post the promised link. Great video as usual. I've done some plate photography with a homemade camera and plates, but I never thought of a way to carry multiple plates around like that. Ideas brewing...

@edwardbarton1680 7 күн бұрын

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH29aZyod5qCr80

@AndyG-_- 12 күн бұрын

Excellent! Also appreciating the omission of "sponsored" content.

@sebastianprzybya5966 12 күн бұрын

Wet plate process didn't utilise mixture of silver nitrate in collodion. The plates were first coated with collodion containing halogen salts, and after the layer had set, but not fully dried, it was sensitised in solution of silver nitrate. However, collodion papers were a thing for a short while and they were coated with collodion that already had light sensitive silver chloride in it. This can be considered first true photographic emulsion, before introduction of gelatine by Maddox.

@firstletterofthealphabet7308 12 күн бұрын

I should add for clarity, when a plate coated with salted collodion is dipped into a silver nitrate sensitizing bath, the halide salts react with the silver nitrate to form silver halides (same as what any film uses nowadays) within the collodion on the plate. That’s what makes the plate light sensitive.

@sebastianprzybya5966 12 күн бұрын

@firstletterofthealphabet7308 modern film isn't identical to collodion in terms of type of halide used. Wet plate utilised silver chloride and iodide, modern emulsions rely almost exclusively on silver bromide. It is orders of magnitude more sensitive to light, however it yields larger grain and it has different spectral sensitivity. Hence the visible tonal diffirence between photos from for example 1880's and 1940's.

@firstletterofthealphabet7308 12 күн бұрын

@@sebastianprzybya5966 From what I’ve heard, modern film uses both bromide and iodide. Don’t quote me on that, I can’t even give you a source. Do you have a source where I could read up on this?

@kmoecub 10 күн бұрын

There were (and still are) several chemistries used for the wet plate process.

@thissidetowardscreen4553 12 күн бұрын

Brilliant video! Informative, educational and fun to watch. I am thinking of getting a box camera soon, not as complex, but to bring my photography experience in a full circle and explore the historical past. Thanks for sharing!

@kylejuve5494 12 күн бұрын

I had to rewind and rewatch the intro Loved it

@spajdude 12 күн бұрын

Never used a fall-plate camera, but a couple of plate cameras. The Aldis-Uno lens you mention at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="715">11:55</a> is an interesting lens. A triplet with single lens element in the front and a cemented doublet in the back.

@yellowcrescent 8 күн бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="247">4:07</a> B/Bulb and T/Timed shutter modes are (usually) different from each other-- although it seems like this camera was more similar to the modern Bulb mode. Bulb mode requires continuous action to keep the shutter open, whereas Timed mode locks the shutter in the open position when triggered, then closes the shutter once activated again. Many large format and some medium format cameras from the past ~50 years include both modes, with Timed mode having the advantage in some cases for very long exposures (> 60 seconds), especially if the shutter is electronically actuated by a solenoid (such as the Mamiya RZ67), since using Timed mode means the shutter can stay open indefinitely without using any battery power.

@X-Chë-X 12 күн бұрын

Gilles, my good sir, I'm sorry to draw critique, but you said "link is in the description" regarding the Arthur Conan Doyle video and yet your description is bereft of such a link, and it pains me further to relate that this is not the first time this has happened. Otherwise, as always, an excellent, well researched, quite informative, and brilliantly conveyed videogram. Thankyou.

@hvguy 12 күн бұрын

It's original owner?!? So he's like what... 100?

@kmoecub 10 күн бұрын

It's???

@antonsorokin3881 12 күн бұрын

Поражаюсь простоте тогдашних фотоаппаратов... Две линзы, вместо затвора какие-то металлические полоски, и всё работает. Ни одной фрезерованной или литой детали. Кажется, его могли повторить даже читатели журнала "Юный техник" из подножных деревяшек и кровельного железа.

@BrianFitzGerald-TheSkySurfer 8 күн бұрын

Good job. Your movies should be used by home schoolers. They are very interesting and educational.

@donaldlampert331 12 күн бұрын

I have one of these cameras….. but labeled for Archer & Sons, 73 Lord St., LIVERPOOL. No name on the camera, but an embossed in the rear door leather, a logo with three flowers, over a triangular base, with initials S, and L on either side of the stem. Also a serial # of 3444. This one is a quarter plate camera! Most interesting…. Thank you! Have you ever tried using your camera, with sheet film, or photographic paper?!?

@glengreen362 11 күн бұрын

I have in my camera collection two magazine cameras, manufactured in Sydney, Australia, though at the moment I cant remember the brand names and that part of my collection is out of reach so I can't check on that. In that same part of my collection I also have an unopened, therefore still sealed, box of glass plate negative surfaces. The magazine camera is really a magnificent design camera, quite ingenious.

@danmadden1080 12 күн бұрын

Great video!

@51WCDodge 12 күн бұрын

Re the Fairy Photos. There is an episode of the BBC Antiques Road Show , which features the original camera and descendants of the two girls.

@RedeyzMinecraft 12 күн бұрын

great intro!!!

@Spring2345 12 күн бұрын

Doubling up on your unexpected intros, bravo.

@paul5683 11 күн бұрын

I imagine one problem with this format is acquiring a well focused image. A rear view camera where you would see the actual image that you were trying to record, upside down of course. But after viewing the framing,lighting and focus, then sliding in a plate cartridge and taking the shot. Not as fast but better quality photographs.

@kmoecub 10 күн бұрын

I can assure you that focusing was not an issue. It's a simple matter of reading a chart (or memorizing said chart) in order to set the lens and aperture so that a range of distances are in focus. The only issue being whether or not the photographer was any god at estimating distance (such need for estimation was more common then).

@12... 12 күн бұрын

the link was not in the description:(

@jonathanreedpike 12 күн бұрын

Great Saturday show, literally clunky cameras are on the menu again. If that beast works you could take some pix using photo paper as negatives and then scan them.

@Madness832 12 күн бұрын

This was more than a quick snapshot!

@phantomkate6 12 күн бұрын

An amusing telling of the fairies hoax is the episode of UK Drunk History. Narrated by Charlotte Ritchie, with Catherine Tate and Matthew Horne portraying the two girls. Available in Canada on KZbin in two parts.

@Centigradius 12 күн бұрын

William Butcher lol. Nobody mentioning “the boys” here was a surprise

@Klatchan 12 күн бұрын

ARMING THE NUGGET!

@ABrit-bt6ce 12 күн бұрын

That's a wierd sounding bazooka.

@b.griffin317 12 күн бұрын

Were there full-sized magazine cameras?

@andrewn7365 12 күн бұрын

No they were limited to prevent mass photographic shoots

@kmoecub 10 күн бұрын

@@andrewn7365 That makes no sense at all. The reason why larger formats were not made for falling plates was the fact that the increased mass of larger plates would cause them to break when dropping to the storage area.

@andrewn7365 10 күн бұрын

@ I was making a grim play on words. In the US, full-sized/high capacity firearm magazines may be restricted because it makes a firearm more capable of committing mass non-photographic shootings.