Enero, 2006

Carlos, Dante

Enero 20, 2006 05:40 PM
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Carlos, Dante

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Giftmas crowding

Enero 20, 2006 03:56 PM
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Giftsmas crowding

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Hello, Dolly!

Enero 18, 2006 09:46 PM
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Hello Dolly

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Santo Tomé

Enero 16, 2006 08:25 PM
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Sto Tome

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Having a walk

Enero 15, 2006 09:05 PM
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Having a walk

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Cold morning

Enero 12, 2006 06:02 PM
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Cold morning

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Javier

Enero 9, 2006 02:03 PM
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Sight line

Enero 8, 2006 09:59 PM
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Little time machines

Enero 5, 2006 09:27 AM
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orthobrom

This small piece of paper was inside an Ikonta's closing mechanism that I've bought recently; it looks like a part of a 120 roll seal, as it seems to have the other side glued. Ortho-brom was a kind of photographic paper available at least since 1912, and my camera is a between-wars german model made in Dresden probably in the early 30's. I guess that the film manufacturer included it as an advertisement in the seal strip to be seen once that the roll was exposed.

I knew that the camera had about 75 years when I bought it from a Slovakian seller by mail, but the fact to find this paper sitting there, perphaps the last 50 years, made me think about those 75 years of camera's life, probably the only time machines that we will ever know.

Este trocito de papel estaba dentro del cierre de una Ikonta que he comprado hace poco; tiene el aspecto de ser un trozo de la tira de sellado de un rollo de 120, ya que parece estar engomado por el reverso. De Ortho-brom sé que era un tipo de papel que al menos en 1912 ya se vendía, y mi cámara es un modelo alemán del periodo de entreguerras, fabricada en Dresde en los primeros años treinta. Supongo que el fabricante incluía publicidad del papel en la cinta de sellado del rollo expuesto.

Cuando compré la cámara por correo a un vendedor eslovaco ya sabía que era una pieza que tenía unos 75 años, pero el hecho de encontrar este trocito de papel que bien podria llevar alli 50 años me ha hecho reflexionar sobre estos 75 años de vida de la cámara, como probablemente las únicas máquinas del tiempo que conoceremos.