Fotovreugde

WEEKEND... fotovreugde met de ideale ILFORD twee

ILFORD SPORTI 6x6
Deze volwaardige, geheel metalen camera schat U tientallen guldens duurder dan 28,50

ILFORD SPORTSMAN,
een machtige kleinbeeld camera met een „alles in een" sneltransport en haarscherpe 2,8 lens toch maar 79,50

en natuurlijk in elke camera
ILFORD
's werelds beste film

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Friese koerier: onafhankelijk dagblad voor Friesland en aangrenzende gebieden, 20-05-1960

Testing an Ilford Sporti

Camerapedia:
Sporti is a medium format roll 120 film viewfinder camera made by Dacora for Ilford introduced in c.1959.

The camera has a handy little lever to help you pop out the exposed film, see bottom image. Quite convenient, if you know it is there. If you don't, you may spend several minutes trying to figure out how to remove the roll.

Another feature is that the shutter isn't activated by pressing the shutter release like it says on Camerapedia, but by letting it go again. I must say I like that feature – and I found out about it in time. This particular camera has a minor light leak, as you can see in the three sample images. The lens is fine and yields nice, soft images, but overall the camera is a bit too bulky to carry around for a walkabouter like me.

Oh, according to photomemorabilia.co.uk, this is a 'European' model with the grey leatherette covering which Ilford believed was not best suited to the more conservative UK 'taste'.

Image 1 and 2: Fujicolor Pro 400H, image 3: Kodak Portra 160.

Developing disc film

Here is set-up for developing a Kodak disc film for people who don't have a dark room. I admit it's not very elegant, but then I found my first exposed disc in a second-hand camera so the images had no sentimental value for me. Besides, the image counter was at 5 when I found it, so even in the best of scenarios there are only 4 exposed shots on this film. Plenty of room for an experiment I'd say.

When I saw the actual size of the cartridge, I reckoned I could jam the entire disc into a Paterson reel. And this worked, it gives a neat fit, see the image below. After that, you can easily develop the disc in regular C-41. There is a very good tutorial for beginners about this on Flickr. Since the disc is jammed tight, agitation is no problem.

All I have to do now is find a way to scan negatives 1-4. Easier said than done. And Kodak disc film was discontinued on 31 December 1999, so even if there is something there, it will probably not be very spectacular.
Disc film (Wikipedia)

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De Telegraaf, 24-07-1950