I fixed a broken camera. And it has NO lens! The results are incredible
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- I was given various old cameras from a kind subscriber to see if I could get them working. The first one was a 1914 Ruby Reflex film and glass plate camera. There were so many things wrong with it that I had to think about how to get it to take pictures again. Watch the video to see how.
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Thanks Martin. It is so great to see how you brought the camera back to life with your innovative thinking. Very inspiring. One thing: you have aged me! It wasn't my grandson! I met a person who inherited these cameras from his grandfather. The had been in lofts for decades. He will be so happy to see what you have done. Thanks for your kindness.
I never miss one of your videos, but I have a soft spot for the pinhole technology. Loved this very much.
Your face at 28 minutes 10 seconds on forgetting the yellow filter Martin 🤣
You are a true photographer Martin! Thanks for sharing
It’s so great to see what you do with paper negatives. I’ll keep pinhole in mind with cameras that I can’t get working.
Dear Martin, I take this video as an opportunity to thank you very much for your diverse suggestions in film photography! I regularly look at your video channel and I have always looked forward to the next video. In the meantime, your hometown Otley and the surrounding area are already very familiar to me. Your enthusiasm for photography as well as your authentic and calm way of presentation and your wealth of ideas have stimulated me again and again. My photography with the Holga and now also with a Pinhole camera are not least due to your videos. Many thanks and warm greetings from Germany.
Love to see old camera being used again thanks
You never cease to amaze me Martin, and I love your enthusiasm.
This is fascinating!
My father took quite a few photos when I was very young, some of which were still around for years.
I don't actually remember the camera, but do remember being a bit over 3 when we went to the zoo. I sat with my little brother on a wall at, I think, the elephant enclosure and my father photographed us both. That would have been 1949 or early 1950. The top-down viewer you showed did look sort-of familiar.
He described the camera as a "Thornton-Pickard reflex camera" and he sold it soon after the zoo trip. He was attending university after the war, and they needed the money. He retained the tripod which looked suspiciously like war surplus -- the head didn't tilt or swivel at all, and it was painted light khaki, like ammunition boxes.
Fantastic video Martin, love these kind of videos you make.
If you buy a step up or step down ring, it will be much cheaper than breaking filters!
Keep up the good work 😊
Thanks for a great video Martin, and you have now inspired me to get my old camera gear out after a six month dry spell, just what I needed!
Awesome job, incredible pics. 🎉
Great job, great video. Thank you Martin. Keep going. 😀
This camera is similar to the Graflex rb series b camera i picked up on Ebay. Fortunately, mine is in great shape. It's just has a very sluggish shutter. I was able to find a couple of the older slotted film holders for it. It's a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 size, and there are a few film options for it. I hope to try paper negatives so I can tray develop this odd size. I will try rodinal as you suggested. I just need to get brave and tackle the shutter issues. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks so much.
Good job !
A very interesting video, as usual, Martin. I am having similar issues with long exposure times with an 8x10 pinhole camera I recently purchased. The field of view is wide, but the aperture is f/375. Hence exposures with paper negatives are about 10-15 minutes even in sunshine. I can cope with that but when you move into shade and get exposures of 30-45 minutes, then it's a bit too cold to stand around for that long. Interior shots would be a non-starter.
So I tried some X-Ray film as what I hoped would be a faster but still fairly cheap alternative. The ISO seems to be about 25 but when you add in reciprocity failure, the exposure times for the X Ray film are even longer than they are for paper (with no reciprocity adjustment).
Just before WWI The price of a Ruby Reflex without a lens, with 3 plateholders, was £8/10/- for 1/4 plate up to £16/16/- for half plate. For half plate with a Ruby Anastigmat the price was £21/0/- up to £23/10/- for the Cooke lens or £29/10/- for the Voigtlaender Heliar. During the war they were very busy and made a gun camera and other cameras for aerial photography.
Love me a Ruby Reflex. Got 5 of them.
Great video
I think it worked on the theory of pin hole camera ? May be Mr Martin has innovated some thing new by assembling and old camera. Thanks Mr Martin. SKPareek.Raj. India.
Nice video. It would help the shadow details in your negatives if you were to pre-flash the paper in your darkroom before loading it. It does make a great pinhole camera.
The paper was pre-flashed, thanks for point it out though
Brilliant Marin, just goes to show what can be done with old camera's that dont work as intended. Martin you move the lens back with a recess board?
@@mickcookson8009 Ah thanks , that explains it
@@martinhensonphotography Martin let me know If I can print one for you to try.
@@mickcookson8009 Thanks so much Mick, I will keep that in mind
Nice work, Mr H, I think you should try x ray film sometime, you can cut that down under a red light, and it gives good results and is about 100 iso, give or take, depending how you develop it. Cheers.
you could build your own lens with 2 magnifiers and 1 tube. You have to adjust the length of the tube for your use. For the chimney viewfinder, you only need black paper and try to build the same one as a rolleiflex or any other one
Awesome
Interesting old camera, sort of a view camera with SLR features.
Did you have too do a lot of contrast adjustments in post with those paper negs? Also, where's all the snow? Didn't you post a video about a month ago with a lot of heavy snow? Cheers!
@@kdj.imagery4317 just a little adjustment nothing out of the ordinary, yea snow all gone , however I think more is expected next week, thanks
das war ein sehr schönes video und sehr interessant
liebe grüsse aus der schweiz
That's great work. Can't understand the reason for the lens you put on the camera. Why wouldn't the other two work? Is it something to do with the film plane? Interesting nice to see old cameras being reused.
I assume you mean the other pinhole cones, the exposures would have been way too long because of the small f stop, example, the focal length of my camera was 150mm, if I used the 72mm cone, the equation of a pinhole size of 0.35 and the focal length of the camera 150mm the f stop would have been f429 not good
The viewfinder app sounds very useful, but I am finding it hard to track it down (for Android). I am assuming it's "Viewfinder Preview". Any more information about it? Thanks for the video. I have a very similar camera, and a friend has one too, but mine is not quite so sophisticated. The shutter has gone too!
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With your knowledge martin could you not turn the camera into a pinhole camera
@@patrickh2028 It is a pinhole camera , I modified it to shoot pinhole images ,
Great results Martin and bravo to @wcwendychapman for providing the cameras.