By the way, these days this toy camera is known as the Diana. It looks exactly like the one I had in 1968, but in those days the name wasn't Diana. Unlike now, it wasn't popular with the art crowd. It was just a cheap toy camera for children. These days it is probably made in China, but back then the same camera was probably made somewhere else. Probably in a toy factory in the U.S. Here is info and photos of the Diana camera.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%28camera%29
- diana-camera-2.jpg (104.44 KiB) Viewed 51363 times
I wrote some about it and other things here:
http://www.bakubo.com/ramblings.html
Here is one of the photos on that 1968 roll of B&W 120 film. This toy camera with the very simple lens also usually has some light leaks and it doesn't produce a perfectly square exposed area on the negative. The resulting negatives are not what you would expect from a Rolleiflex.
I don't have a 120 film scanner and since the quality of the negatives don't need a high quality scan I just put them on top of my lightbox, used 2 books to hold down the top and bottom negative edges to make the negative flat, and then using the macro mode of my digicam I photographed them. Then in PSE 9 I converted the color negative photos to B&W positives. Of course, with these cameras you don't get or expect sharp results. I used my loupe to examine the negatives and this photograph and conversion of the negative is true. The digicam is properly focused on the negative.My 2 sisters and the next door neighbor boy in Austin, Texas in 1968:
- IMG_0920.jpg (169.67 KiB) Viewed 51363 times
Maybe your sisters would be interested in the photo as well.
