My eyes!

One day my Father gave me a brilliant gift. He'd climbed down from the loft bearing a box full of ancient photographic items (my equivalent of a pirates treasure chest). The box contained a mass of tatty old cameras, some working, some not, old flash guns, a light meter and some random objects. After inspecting the lot I I'd found an Agfa Billy Record along with a receipt from 1934. The fold out camera was tatty but a work of art in itself with its heavy Art Deco styled body and fold out leather bellows.

It shoots large 6x7, and is completely manual (obviously) but it doesn't have much scope of adjustment. There are two focus settings, 5m and 5m-Infinity, but it never seems to be very focused whichever setting I choose! Turns out that I have a hole in the Bellows too. That's what caused the ghostly light burns. This particular shot was pointed right at the sun and the leak dominates the picture.

To add to the quality of the image, I didn’t have a scanner at the time, but I was dying to get my shots up so I shoved the films in an office scanner.

I suspect the camera was infinitely better when it was new, even if it was a basic camera at the time. But it's done well for a budget camera made in the 1930’s. I plan to restore it at some point because it's so fun to use.

Photographer:
crumpy
Uploaded:
2010-03-11
Camera:
Agfa Billy Record
Film:
Ilford Delta 400PRO
City:
Surrey
Country/region:
United Kingdom
Albums:
REALLY bad scans of my first films
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