The AEROgraphic project part 1 – introduction and required materials If you’re interested in finding out more for yourself, we can talk. One final note for this preface, I am currently investigating options to sell these modified cameras in the near future. While you’re there, check out some of his work during Rio 2016. You can see some of David’s stunning work with the combination at the London 2012 Summer Olympics here. Probably the most famous photographer to use this camera/lens combination is David Burnett and it’s often referred to as the “Burnett Combo”. Vintage advert – Kodak K-21 and Aero Ektar Flickr: Nesster.
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A quick search on Flickr yields some absolutely stunning work with this lens.Īfter WWII, these cameras and lenses were sold for next to nothing and although the combination may be considered a modern one, the Speed Graphic / Aero Ektar pairing has existed ever since the lenses were made available to the general public (they were optionally sold off with lens boards made to fit the camera host camera).Ģ019 prices will run you between $400 and $600 for a lens in good condition and anywhere up to $1200 for the lens plus original camera. Either way, it’s ludicrously damned fast for a large format lens. If we’re talking equivalent focal length and aperture on 35mm film, the lens translates to something like 52mm and f/0.9 but that’s based on my own calculations and the aperture could be totally wrong. It refers to Kodak’s Aero Ektar, a 7″ (178mm) f/2.5 lens which came as part of a variety of WWII-era large format cameras used by the US and Royal Air Forces. Some of you might be wondering where the “ Aero Ektar” bit in the title comes in. History of the Kodak Aero Ektar 7″ f/2.5 lens 7.2 Optional materials, tools and accessories.6 Mounting your Aero Ektar to the Speed Graphic.5.2 Option 2 – Bleaching your Aero Ektar using a Blacklight Blue bulb (BLB).5.1 Option 1 – Bleaching your Aero Ektar lens using natural / LED light.4.1 Pacemaker Speed Graphic pre/post 1955 differences and why you should care.4 Selecting the camera: Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic.3 The AEROgraphic: camera, rationale, name.2 The AEROgraphic project part 1 – introduction and required materials.
1 History of the Kodak Aero Ektar 7″ f/2.5 lens.In this, the first article, I’ll be describing the donor camera, lens and materials you’ll need to assemble before you begin. That said, the basic mechanical aspects should be very similar across all models. I belatedly realised the extent that I should have been documenting my process, so you’ll find example images from my work-in-progress, the finished article, as well as my other Speed Graphic.ĭepending on the model of camera you choose to use, you may find some small differences between these images and your camera.
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The ~80 reference images you will find dotted throughout this series are all of the late 1950’s Pacemaker Speed Graphic model (there are a few variations). Naturally, if you want to mount an Aero Ektar lens to anything other than a Pacemaker Speed Graphic, you’re going to run into a few problems. The instructions provided for rangefinder tuning in part five can be used for any lens, and a Graflex Crown Graphic can still be stripped to show off its gorgeous wood shell. Note: you don’t need to have an Aero Ektar lens, or even a Pacemaker Speed Graphic camera in order to use this guide for your own project. Initially envisioned as a single article, this documentation has since ballooned into something a much more substantial and I hope, more useful than it would have otherwise been. Unsurprisingly there was a complete lack of documentation for the process, so I made extensive notes to present here. While working my way through this build, I found only patches of truly useful information to help me along the way.
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