10 year old Kodak 100 Gold color print film was fresh out of freezer, exposed in a
Bolsey B22, a few frames at home, the rest in Cedar Hill, Missouri, and
Rockford Beach. Shell of the old grist mill on Big River in Cedar Hill is
still standing, windows removed and open to the elements.
Newer boulder dam at Rockford Beach is busted up from floods, kind of rough.
There were a lot of people enjoying lifting of stay at home,
but ignoring social distancing and protective masks.
Except for me.

Friday morning I mixed my Caffenol recipes. This time I cut the developer time
to 7 minutes from 16 first time and 9 the second time.
All 24 frames worked out.
Caffenol chemistry treats color film as if it is monochrome.
The Sepia tone was added by me in software, I just love having some color in my images.

Jacques Bolsey, believed to be born in Russia in 1896, emigrated to France, Switzerland and finally to the United States, changing his last name three times along the way. His original name was Bogopolsky. In Switzerland, he designed a 35mm camera, called the Cinégraphe Bol followed by the Bolex 16mm movie camera in 1927. Several years later the rights were sold to Paillard and he stayed on as a consultant until the mid 1930s. In 1938 he designed the Bolca Reflex 35mm SLR. The camera was to be called the Alpa after the rights were sold to the Swiss company Pignons. Bolsey moved to the United States at the beginning of World War II and worked for the United States government to create a line of cameras for aerial and ground photography. He went on to invent several lines of consumer cameras. Later, he founded a new Bolsey company in 1947 to produce small 35mm fixed lens rangefinders. One of his final inventions was the 8mm Bolsey Uniset. A camera the size of a cigarette pack that could take both motion and still pictures. Jacques Bolsey died suddenly in 1962. (adapted from Wikipedia article).

In use I found the Bolsey B22 an easy carry, and with the precision of a Swiss watch. However, with my big hands, it also felt a bit awkward and cramped in use. The Wollensak lens did deliver good images, even when developing the film in coffee.

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All images are ©2020 E.J.Kowalski.
Thanks! Ed