@Ryan thanks for sharing. I especially enjoyed scrutinizing all the construction details in the cars and am amazed that so much time must have been spent making pieces look "just right" in those sprinters even if for no apparent gain in performance. I look forward to your next installment of historic photos. I sure miss my manual SLR...
Louis Unser won pikes peak in 38, 39 and 41 in this Miller car, photo taken with my samsung galaxy s10e while I hummed kodachrome by Paul Simon.
This stuff is truly priceless. And I know how hard it was to get good pictures back in the day, a manual camera and a hand-held light meter if you were lucky.
magnesium Halibrand 101 uses model A and 4 banger 32 parts. See them in dirt track stuff. If you search there’s some good threads on them here. and yeah the give away that the radiator hoses are on the intake side is that they are attached to carburetors lmao.
Speechless.....The intense passionate interest of these shots makes you wonder if you were reincarnated from there and poof, light years warp speed to life here to relive it again. Look at the pictures, do you see yourself.....
Hey @Ryan Upon closer inspection of the Cobbs photo, the camera the kid has, is a " Kodak Brownie Bullet" camera, and not a "Hawk-Eye" like I thought it was. I know that you are a stickler for accuracy! The "Kodak Hawk-Eye" is a twin lens camera that has a totally different view finder, that you look down at, to compose the shot.
Every photo on the roll is pure gold, but that one with the rocks and cars is exceptional. You should get it blown up, framed, and hung on the wall in your office.
I don't have the negatives... But I do have process for re-prints of sorts. During Covid, I got into this phase of building little TVs from spare parts. I built my own Samsung Frame TV, I built this thing, and I started to build a tiny 4" by 5" TV before I lost interest. The OLED for that little TV has proven to be pretty useful though. Essentially, I put an image on the OLED panel and then take a picture of it with my Nikon F3 and a macro lens. Develop those negs and then presto - I have a pretty decent negative that retains most of the visible characteristics of the original film photograph. It's not perfect, but it's not bad either. I've actually found that it works far better than simply taking a picture of a print. That all being said, I'm working on a digital print setup now. It should be far easier, less time consuming, and result in a better print. Just takes practice...
I don't recall myself ever looking at old photos that have such a level of definition, they always look grainy and blurry. These make you feel like you're standing right there at that moment.
Speaking of the #4 car of Paul Kleinschmidt of Colorado Springs, there's a short video clip on PPIHC Facebook page from 2018 that has the onboard footage from his car. Here's a picture of the car with the camera rig attached, dated 1958. Click the link below to view the video https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Xh6vkmRjC/
I didn't want to sound stupid when I first commented but I'm not completely sure what I'm seeing in that grille opening as far as that front shock/shocks, was hoping someone would chime in.
I totally enjoyed the "ATOMIC" rabbit hole video that I fell into, that shows the construction of the kick ass little rasberry pie movie loop player! Bravo!
Just curious Ryan, but wouldn't the information of the print be better captured by a high-end scanner? I'm all for analog operation but at some point…
Without question. And these images I am posting from Tom Cobbs were scanned on a very high end drum scanner. I just don't have a commercial grade printer that would do them justice... YET. My method using the little OLED screen was done initially in an attempt to give digital photography the grain and warmth of film. You can do this digitally in post, obviously, but I'm not very good at it... and I find the look of film very hard to duplicate. So I essentially started shooting digital images with a film camera to get this look. I did a version of that on this photoshoot: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=36187 At the end of the day, it's a shit ton of effort for very little gain. But I learned a ton...
I wanted to add, that I do appreciate your efforts to sustain that quality. Most folks don't know why something looks good or doesn't care or certainly cannot tell you why. But someone has to sustain this, thankfully.
"and yeah the give away that the radiator hoses are on the intake side is that they are attached to carburetors lmao." Hope - those hoses are connected to injector bodies- not carbs- you can see the injector nozzles poking out of the tops of the throttle bodies. Still a cool pic with gobs of wonderful detail!!!
In preparation for Monday's feature, I just opened up the directory titled, "Trip No. 3." Oh. My. God.
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