11/5/10
Fun with the Kodak Duaflex IV! I burned through a roll of Fuji pro 160C (120) atop Mt Lemmon a couple weeks ago. The images below show about as much fall color as you’ll ever see here in southern Arizona, with mostly Aspen providing the yellow. The top three shots were taken with the Kodak Duaflex IV with front focusing F/8 kodar 72mm lens, set at F/16. The last shot was taken with the Sony C905a camera phone. The photos with the Duaflex are fairly sharp, and look good printed out at 3½ x 3½, or possibly 5 x 7, but that size is pushing it. The Sony camera phone is much better optically than the Duaflex, and of course cheaper and more convenient. One thing I’d like to mention; if you get your 120 film scanned, make sure you tell then to take the film out of the clear plastic sleeve before scanning, otherwise you’ll wind up with marks along the side where the sleeve flap is. My local processing lab (Jones photo) seems to think it doesn’t matter, and they don’t bother to do what I tell them, so I’m not going to use them anymore. I’m not really big on film at this point in life.
If you want to use 120 film in a 620 camera, such as the one mentioned above, you can simply trim the spool ends, and use sand paper to shave off the amount needed on the ends to make the length the same as a 620 spool. Google it if you’re interested. I may post a how-to at some point.
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| Kodak Duaflex IV with kodar F/8 lens, set at F/16. |
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| Kodak Duaflex IV with kodar F/8 lens, set at F/16. |
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| Kodak Duaflex IV with kodar F/8 lens, set at F/16. |
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| Sony C905a camera phone |