My friends Alex & Janel just finished a tour with singer - songwriter Micah. It brought them all over the Northeast and to Rochester, my hometown. I went up to see my family and to catch a couple of their shows, which were great as always. We were able to spend a day together and I took them to the George Eastman House. The founding father of Kodak had a wonderful mansion that is now The International Museum of Photography and Film. We toured the house and the exhibits and came across a collection of vintage Kodak cameras. I have a small collection myself and we threw around the idea of trying to shoot with them.
Back in NYC, pulling out bins from storage, I decided to begin this journey with a Kodak No.2 Folding Autographic Brownie. This was one of the small bellowed types not the boxes. They take standard 120 film. I shot two rolls. one color and one b&w. I got the film developed and they negatives looked ok. Before I scanned the negs properly, which came out more sharp than the image above, I took a pic of the negative with my iPhone, emailed it to myself and processed it in Photoshop. It looks great. Can't wait to do more. By the way, this is a photograph of Alex Brumel in front of Banjo Jim's getting ready for his final performance as part of the line up of the Hearts on Fire Tour that brought them to Rochester.
Thanks for Reading.
Be well,
Ahron
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