Tampa With a Hawkeye

I went out today with the Argoflex to test out my focus calibration (more on that sometime this week) and realized that I haven't posted my Hawkeye photos yet.

I was a little less nervous with the Hawkeye than I was with the Brownie. Even though the mechanics are a little different, I was way more comfortable with loading the film and running it through. I had to modify the 120 spool to make it fit, but it went in and ran through the camera perfectly.

And with 12 shots instead of 8 I even felt comfortable enough to recompose a shot when I realized it wasn't framed the way I wanted.

I think I have posted the digital versions of these shots but I can't remember. As I did with the Brownie 2, I used my Nikon to "meter" these shots to make sure the 200 ISO film and 1/50 sec shutter speed would work with the lighting. I'll put a few comparisons at the end of this post.

It's tough to find time for photo walks, but I managed to find a morning in Tampa to walk around and capture a few sites.

One of my favorite "features" of these old cameras is the ability to take double and even triple exposures. In fact you can just keep clicking away as much as you want, though I don't recommend it.

I had one shot left, so I thought I would take a picture of my house. It didn't come out well though. I think this camera works better with the sun behind the user. Maybe I could get a lower ISO for shots like this.

As promised, some comparisons between digital and film:

Definitely prefer the film on that last one.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the Argoflex developed and scanned. We'll see!

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I love these shots! Film photos is like traveling in time. You go back to the past.

Double exposures sure are fun but what I've noticed is that they come out better if you either do not shoot the kind photos on top of each other that have sky in it or lots of sky and perhaps it's good to underexpose the photos too. But of course that also depends. Sometimes the best double exposures are the accidental ones. Though I love these what you got!

I want to figure out a way to line all the exposures up to form stories. That may be a little difficult since the viewfinder is cloudy, everything is a bit of a guess to frame up.

That sounds interesting! I hope you figure out how to do that and whow us the results. :)

Oh the cloudy viewfinder issue! In really bad cases I've decided to clean and perhaps also replace the mirrors or the glasses but at the same time I'm hoping that I won't break the camera more.

The mirror was loose when I got it so I took it apart, cleaned it up, and glued it back on. Still cloudy 😩 I'm probably just spoiled by my SLR lol

But if the mirror is original so perhaps it's just it's feature now that it's old. Like the whole camera. So if you want it to be clear, you have to replace it completely. Or are you thinking it was the glues fault?

It looked clean and clear to me 🤷 but now it's permanent for the next 70 years lol

Really odd.