Again with the uncreative titles :p

Anyways, as much as I use digital for %99 percent of my photography, I began and learned on film and sometimes like to go back to that.

This picture was taken with a Kodak Monitor 620, which is a medium format folding camera, complete with the accordian style bellows and dates back to the 1940s. Bought it on eBay for $40 and luckily had no light leaks in the bellows, so disassembled the lens/shutter assembly and cleaned and oiled the insides...it had some problems with the slower shutter speeds, but some oil fixed that pretty good.

It used a size of film called 620 size...but in reality it was just a marketing scheme by Kodak to get people to buy their film, 620 film is EXACTALLY the same as the more common 120 size film, except 620 had smaller diamater spools. 620 is no longer in production today, howvever all you have to do is buy a roll of 120, which is still made today, and using a dark box, re-spool it onto a 620 spool.

Anyways, enough with the ranting. This picture was taken at Edmonds where there is a ferry dock, and as you can see, the camera can still take crystal sharp pictures, even after 60 years.