Saturday, October 10, 2009

Houghton Ensign

This has got to be my trendiest post yeti would say.
This photos are absolute shit, they were basically an experiment with a Houghtons Ensign 2 1/4B.Box from the 1920's.
Alberts dad found the camera in one of his tenants backyards or something and so i was lucky enough to get my hands on it and have a play. Turns out its only worth $10 or something even with its antiqueness. It did have a few things wrong with it that im working on fixing up, the thing that i gues would be like a dark slide had come off and one of the rollers for the film snapped a pin so its a bit loose. Plus i had to take the whole thing apart to fix the shutter. But the whole camera is so basic in every way its just fascinating seeing how much cameras have changed.
Il have to take some photos of the box so you can see what im talking about sometime.
but anyway these photos are shit and to make things even trendier i chucked my bike in there...
The shutter speed is stupidly slow so nothing is verry sharp and the focus seems to be set more for long landscape style shots then close up stuff.
im sure il put a few more rolls through it before i get sick of wasting my time and money, but for now this is it.