Shooting baseball on a 130 year-old panoramic film camera ⚾️🎞️ pic.twitter.com/OjzLxnKNNt
— Miles | Expired Film Club (@expiredfilmclub) September 24, 2024
Miles of the Expired Film Club takes wonderful pictures of sports events with vintage cameras. Lately, he's been taking black and white panoramas with a Kodak Panoram from around 1900. This camera was introduced not long after film rolls were invented to replace glass plates. The camera was a box with a swinging lens that moved in the same arc as that of the film roll at the back. This camera was especially useful at taking sharp photos from a distance. Miles also shows us the images he took with this camera of automobile racing and soccer. Even though the camera was a breakthrough for its time, it is mechanically simple compared to what we use now, so it still works well 120 years later. If you're wondering where he gets the film, it's from a specialty supplier in Britain called Analogue Wonderland. They also developed the film. Despite their 2012 bankruptcy, Kodak continues to manufacture film for cameras, which it distributes through Kodak Alaris, one of its spinoff companies.
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