{"id":37878,"date":"2023-10-25T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=37878"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:36:38","slug":"home-theater-final-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2023\/10\/25\/home-theater-final-touches\/","title":{"rendered":"Home theater – final touches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Home Theater was pretty much complete 6 months ago<\/a> but as I had a couple of old tripods sitting around largely unused it seemed appropriate to add a couple of cameras to go with them.<\/p>\n

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The 120\u201d screen is flanked by a 1960s Nikon F<\/a> on a period Linhof S168 tripod<\/a> at left and a Calumet 4\u201dx5\u201d view camera with a Schneider Symmar lens, on a 1930s English Gandolfi wooden tripod at right. The Nikon F, which brought back so many horrific images of conflict and death from the front did more to end the Viet Nam war than any politician or soldier. This was before the Pentagon learned to keep photographers away from the front lines, so as to sanitize and extend our endless wars. The Calumet view camera was a staple of Hollywood\u2019s glamor photographers, the large 4\u201d x 5\u201d negatives making the retouching of warts and achievement of glossy perfection relatively easy.<\/p>\n

Here are snaps of those two cameras:<\/p>\n

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\nThe Nikon F, with a 50mmf\/1.4 Nikkor lens. <\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

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\nThe Calumet monorail view camera with more twists and turns than a politician. <\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Further, on the sofaback, there is one of these:<\/p>\n

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\nThe Zeiss Ikon Contax camera<\/a> is similar to the one which photographer Robert Capa<\/a> took with him when he parachuted in to Omaha Beach with the 82nd Airborne on D Day. The few surviving negatives (the lab ruined most of the film) are amongst the greatest war images made. He lost his life when stepping on a landmine in Indochina a few years later.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

These additions, as well as some further light sealing for errant sun rays, largely see the Home Theater project completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Home Theater was pretty much complete 6 months ago but as I had a couple of old tripods sitting around largely unused it seemed appropriate to add a couple of cameras to go with them. The 120\u201d screen is flanked by a 1960s Nikon F on a period Linhof S168 tripod at left and … Continue reading Home theater – final touches<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37910,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions\/37910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}