IMPERIAL DEBONAIR

One of the oddest looking cameras in my collection is the "Imperial Debonair", A Herbert George Co. camera. It has a single plastic lens and takes 620 film which one has to respool from 120 film, (no big deal). These can be found on eBay quite inexpensively. Don't you just love the little lens shade above the lens?

Most of the photos I've taken with this camera were done before I had a film scanner and so were processed as prints in the darkroom and never digitized. The bottom photo is one of my favorites taken with the Imperial Debonair. It's not a film scan but just a scan of the small print. I need to look up some of those old negatives and scan them, someday when I have time.

LEFT OVER SUMMER

These were taken with a modified Diana Clone camera this past summer.

1: Sky Glider at Iowa State Fair
2: The Giant Slide at Iowa State Fair
3 Saddle in Horse Barn at Jasper County Fair
4: Alice getting a Corn Dog at Iowa State Fair
5: Cattle at Jasper County Fair
6: Jasper County Courthouse

I fitted an "Arrow" (Diana Clone) with a shutter from an Ansco folding camera, allowing shutter speeds from 1/300 sec. to 1sec. plus bulb, with a cable release thread and electronic flash sync. By gluing a filter ring to the front of the lens I can attach Kodak Series VI filters and lens hood.

BLACK & WHITE CHRISTMAS PHOTOS

I always photograph Christmas with this side of my family in black and white with my trusty Holga.

For a look at last years Christmas, click here.