My beautiful Bilora Bella camera from 1955

The Bella was a line of cheap but attractive and well-built 120, 127 roll film and 35mm cameras made by Bilora in Germany. The Bellas went through several revisions over the life of the name. The body was based on alloy castings, with added leather-effect covering - in various colour combinations. Each was styled a little more like a 35mm camera than a roll film one. The back was removable for film loading, and most models featured a different, large back catch.

The 44 models took twelve 4x4cm images on 127 film; the 46 models made 6x4cm frames on 127, and the 66 models took 6x6 photos on 120 film.

The Bella 44-1 was also sold by Ansco, rebadged as the Ansco Lancer. Bilora also used the names Roxa, Bonita and Reporter for Bella variants.

Manufacturer: Bilora, Germany
Shutter: B, 1/50, 1/100s
In production: 1953-1966

And I think my new Bella camera is the early model from 1955.
Bella 3C

Photographer Gavin Watson

Photographers who inspire me do not grow on trees. A photographer that I found in the '90s was Gavin Watson.
The working-class skinhead subculture brought together by a love of ska music and fashion. The pictures are wonderful, and I was drawn to them.

Then Gavin himself is an incredibly funny and lovely person so makes it even better. Been on two of Gavin's exhibitions in Stockholm and here are my pictures of Gavin.

and evening music

MADNESS - Don´t quote me on that

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Mini scanner, package from FAK

The worst thing I know is when things take to a long time. My big Epson scanner is a bit of my nightmare as it scans each image slowly and feels like an eternity. Now found my mini scanner, with poor resolution and prefect when you want to look at old negatives. Like taking out a contact sheet and its fast!

And my film adapter from FAK have arrived, but have not decided yet what camera to start with. On Wednesday, I booked a couple of hours for myself to test it in town after work. Think it will be the Brownie Cresta.

and morning music

Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra & Riger János - Részeg

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Uni-Fex camera from 1949 and music with Nouvelle Vague

My new Uni-Fex camera from 1949. Beautiful bakelite camera for 620 film (6x9).

Fex/Indo (for France EXport) and (INDustrie Optique) is a French company that produced inexpensive camera models from the 1940s to the 1981. It was one of the few civil camera companies founded in times of WWII.

When France was under German occupation, Fritz Kaftanski formed an association with Lucien Bouchetal de la Roche in order to produce cameras under the mark FEX (for France EXport). Located in Lyon, this company became FEX-INDO and then INDO (INDustrie Optique). It stopped all activities in 1981. The wartime product was a wooden camera of poor qiality but with Angenieux lens. Later Kaftanski himself developed successful camera models like the bakelite camera Ultra-Fex.

and evening music

Nouvelle Vague

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