25 Feb 2025

Studio Fun With Old Cameras

 I have an old camera addiction collection that is stored on various shelves & in several boxes in our small storage room. From time to time I like to get them out and peruse in wonder at the early days of photography, the innovation and incremental technological advances that finally led us all the way to the digital wonders that we have in our hands today. Then I put them away again until next time, but it is somehow comforting that at least they have a home where they can be kept out of the local waste dump site.

Today I decided to put a few of them in front of my digital wonder paired with some lights and see what I could throw together in about 15 minutes. Here they are and at the end I have a pull back shot just to show the layout of the lighting. More info at the end of the post.





 

All photos taken with my D850 (hand held) with the wonderful 24-120mm, set to f8, iso64 at 120mm. I used five Speedlights triggered remotely via an SU-800 Commander, the lights were separated into three groups so that each group could be controlled separately. The Speedlights are mounted into and shooting through some Elinchrom light modifiers via Godox mounts attached to light stands, except the background light which has a gobo from Magmod attached to get the light stream effect.