the sterility of analog
image notes: ZEISS IKON Contina, circa 1957
I was looking at items for sale on [ Pottery Barn's site ] and was stunned to see they’re marketing a look alike of an old film camera to be used as decoration. The current price is $149.00 and they don’t take photographs. This one is not one of those. This is a real ZEISS camera.
Exif data:
Camera: NIKON D300
Aperture Value: 4.643856
Date Time Digitized: 2011:11:03 14:09:41
Date Time Original: 2011:11:03 14:09:41
Exposure Time: 1 / 60
Flash: Flash did not fire
FNumber: 5
Focal Length: 105
Focal Length In 35mm Film: 157
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
Light Source: unknown
Max Aperture Value: 3.1
Shutter Speed Value: 5.906891
Subject Distance: 2
Subject Distance Range: unknown
Lens Model: 105.0 mm f/2.8
No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes the picture.
— Doug Bartlow
29 Comments
Uwe
November 4, 2011Another piece of art. Love your stills very much.
Mirco
November 4, 2011Simple but beautiful
fabrizio
November 4, 2011a special image, elegant and perfect
Paolo
November 4, 2011beautiful!!! and of course a wonderful camera, I used her (it was my dad’s camera) with kodachrome 64 and I was fond of her. now sh’s laying in one of my drawer… sigh…
Rob
November 4, 2011Lovely capture, but $140?
A.Barlow
November 4, 2011That’s a really nice shot. Love your still image set far. This one is great!
Andrew Graeme Gould
November 4, 2011You’ve really made the most of showing off the forms of this classic camera, Sherri. Very nostalgic, too, but for all the classic beauty of it, I still wouldn’t give up digital cameras and Lightroom!
Arnd
November 4, 2011Love your placement of the camera in the frame and the clever addition of ‘old-typewriter-styled’ text.
A really elegant and artistic picture!
Foto'S Stanisław Drężek
November 4, 2011I have several similar :) beautiful and true.
Michael Rawluk
November 4, 2011I love the beauty of old cameras. I have about 50 of them and several are scattered around around the house.
Fritsch
November 5, 2011CApturing th soul of things. Amazing, Sherri! And it never fails to impress. All the best & safe trevels, Fritsch.
yiannis krikis
November 5, 2011great image of a great object
rian
November 5, 2011that’s one sexy camera.. :) nice capture!
Christopher
November 5, 2011I love this nostalgic shot and the quote is priceless. It reminds of an old cardiologist who was once asked which stethoscope would best aid the student in listening for heart murmurs. He smiled and said, “five dollar stethoscope, million dollar ears.”
Kala
November 5, 2011Very nicely composed image. What a beautiful camera.
joshi daniel
November 7, 2011classic beauty!
Claus Petersen
November 7, 2011Very cool old school cool equipment ;-)
Joachim
November 7, 2011I like composition.
Marcie
November 7, 2011Isn’t it amazing that they’re selling look-alike cameras for that kind of price?? Love the image..maybe you should submit it to Pottery Barn?
yz
November 8, 2011wow, a classic beauty
great product shot, anyway
george
November 8, 2011A gorgeous shot Sherri, the old camera looks quite superb. And I fully concur with the quote by Doug Bartlow which reminds me of one I saw today on another blog (thanks hotpixel) and which I’ve paraphrased a little…“
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless chase from new body to new lens to more new lenses, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it” Edward Weston, 1927
Caryn Caldwell
November 8, 2011Beautiful! I love the warmth and the light, and the details are lovely.
Turnbill
November 11, 2011Beautiful capture of a beautiful camera.
Frida
November 15, 2011That is a beautiful camera, just checking in to see how you are Sherri??
Sharon
November 15, 2011This is a beautiful shot, Sherri. The camera is gorgeous and so is your photograph. I enjoy your blog a great deal.
Sharon
John Prior
November 16, 2011Nice image, I’ve always loved cameras almost as much as taking pictures, I can easily understand why people collect them.
Michael
November 23, 2011Negative space, texture, text all with vintage goodness. Beautiful!
Emily
November 28, 2011not gonna lie, this is probably my favourite photo I’ve seen of yours so far … this is really awesome
Arjan -PlasticDaisy
November 29, 2011I’d prefer the real one! :) What a work of art!