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Editor’s Pics
Photos & Story by Lance Phillips
This month, we will review a few photos from completely different spectrums (and eras) of the photographic world. To begin, I’ll take you to the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas within and around which I captured the sights with my old Pentax 67 medium format camera.
I have presented a few photos taken with the Pentax 67 in these pages before; Oshkosh last year comes to mind immediately. If you can imagine a normal 70s-80s era SLR, like a Nikon F3 or Canon AE-1 and double what your mind’s eye sees, that’s basically what a Pentax 67 looks and feels like–a giant SLR.
A 35 mm camera (like the aforementioned Nikon and Canon) uses a 24 mm by 36 mm negative to achieve a 2:3 image ratio. The 35 mm camera was first envisioned by Oskar Barnack in 1903 and then produced by Leica (Leitz Camera in Wetzlar, Germany) in 1913. Leica still makes and sells the world’s best 35 mm film cameras and lenses in 2024. It also manufactures and sells amazing digital cameras. The readers of Twin & Turbine will see some of my Leica film images in later issues this year.
Early large format cameras, introduced in the mid-1800s, used huge 4-inch by 5-inch or 8-inch by 10-inch sheet-film negatives. The first production model called the Reiseka- mera, ironically translated as a travel camera, was a big, cumbersome box with bellows and lens apparatus. But it took incredible photos. Large-format cameras are still used and in production today.
The first medium format camera, the Brownie, was de- signed and produced by Kodak in 1901. Kodak, the Brownie, and medium format film (designated 120 film) brought pho-
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tography to the masses because of its portability compared to large format cameras. 120 film rolls can produce various size negatives, the most popular being 6 cm x 6 cm and 6 cm x 7 cm (used by my Pentax), along with others like 6 cm x 9 cm. Different camera designs can stretch one side of the negative, but the width is always 6 cm.
That’s all the nerdy camera stuff you get for now. Let’s see some unique airplanes.