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ZorkiKat
09-25-2006, 08:12
Here's one of my FED-1, pimped up with a new goatskin covering. This FED had lingered naked for almost two years. Now it's got a new coat on. Covering material came from a dead goat and was home-tanned in mango bark.
http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL740/2933453/5925839/190369705.jpg

This is the first of two current FED-1 projects.

Jay
brachal
09-25-2006, 08:36
Wow, beautiful. More cameras should look like that!
Xmas
09-25-2006, 09:05
Jay

Sorry to steal your goat...

Do you have fog level problems with the (pain) killer developer you use?

Noel
ZorkiKat
09-25-2006, 09:13
Jay

Sorry to steal your goat...

Do you have fog level problems with the (pain) killer developer you use?

Noel

Noel

None at all, or at least I don't find any significant enough. The paRodinal negatives come out the same way as those developed in Rodinal.

Jay
bmicklea
09-25-2006, 09:13
Very nice! You tanned that yourself?! Very impressive!
ZorkiKat
09-25-2006, 09:16
Very nice! You tanned that yourself?! Very impressive!


Thanks. Did everything from tanning to re-covering the camera. Skin was vegetable (bark)-tanned.

Jay
NL2377
09-25-2006, 09:31
Awesome! Im looking at wooden lenghts for my leica clone! maybe if I pick up a fed, i will do carbon fibre (the real stuff, that is)
Xmas
09-25-2006, 09:35
Jay

Thanks.

The fed looks ok, prefer black leather or Vulcanite myself but every one is different.

Noel
BillBingham2
09-25-2006, 10:00
Does PETA know about this?

Thanks for making photographers a target!

B2 (;->
Ash
09-25-2006, 10:03
wow! nice one :)
w3rk5
09-25-2006, 16:31
Really nice work Jay. Are you going to post a "how to" on your site?
vrgard
09-25-2006, 16:44
Very nice, Jay. Looks so good I have a hard time considering it to be "pimped." In other words, it almost looks like it could have originally been sold like that (rather than being turned into an eye-catching eyesore, which is what I think of when I hear "pimped"). Good job!

Oh, and glad to hear that the leather came from a dead goat. Probably easier than doing the same with a live one... ;-)

-Randy
lmd91343
09-25-2006, 16:56
Jay,

It looks very nice. You do good work!
MinorTones
09-25-2006, 17:41
Nice looking camera you've done a great job.
ZorkiKat
09-26-2006, 02:40
Really nice work Jay. Are you going to post a "how to" on your site?

Got a few more FED/Zorki 'how to's' up the sleeve which I'd like to add in the site. But that would need some time to do :)

Jay
ZorkiKat
09-26-2006, 02:53
Does PETA know about this?

Thanks for making photographers a target!

B2 (;->

PETA might as well go after any photographer who shoots with film. Film contains gelatin, another animal product. It comes from bones of slaughtered animals. Bones and skins are typically waste products of the meat industry- turning them to gelatin, glue, or leather respectively actually honours the animals more by utilising materials which would have otherwise rotted in the ground. Besides, this is not the same as killing foxes or sables for their fur- these animals die only for their fur and everything else gets discarded. :D
Skinny McGee
09-26-2006, 04:04
They will show up at your door with "ANTI FUR" signs with leather boots on...

maybe the signs should read "SAVE THE CUTE ANIMALS"..

Sorry.

Your camera looks great.
rbiemer
09-26-2006, 08:28
Lovely camera, Jay!
Just out of curiosity, is the varied coloring intrinsic to the goat skin or a result of the tanning process? Or some of each?
Rob
ZorkiKat
09-26-2006, 10:54
Lovely camera, Jay!
Just out of curiosity, is the varied coloring intrinsic to the goat skin or a result of the tanning process? Or some of each?
Rob


Rob

The tanning procedure gave the colour. The goat skin had a lot of subcutaneous veins which accounted for the dark spots. Goatskin is very thin- the one I used is like parchment. I'd say the variable reactions of the tannin itself on the skin accounted for the uneven hues.

BTW, the photograph shows the skin to look a bit more red than it really is. It's really more tan in life. The skin is still new, handling and further oiling should render it darker.

Jay
rbiemer
09-26-2006, 10:58
Thanks!
I do like the varied color you got.
Rob
pcfranchina
09-26-2006, 11:56
Now thats a sexy FED.
Ash
09-26-2006, 14:00
Jay, fancy sorting me out some of that for my 'flex? :D
retrocam
09-26-2006, 21:14
You said "pimped". I thought it was going to be in purple or some loud color...hehehe.

Good work Jay J! :)
ZorkiKat
09-26-2006, 23:44
Jay, fancy sorting me out some of that for my 'flex? :D

How much 'skin' does your flex need? There's still some goat left and if it fits in a letter envelope, can send you some. Message me in private for details :D

Jay
ZorkiKat
09-26-2006, 23:45
You said "pimped". I thought it was going to be in purple or some loud color...hehehe.

Good work Jay J! :)

Annie

I wouldn't say that the thought hasn't crossed my mind :)

There's still some cameras here which need to be re-dressed and I might just do that.

Jay
Ash
09-27-2006, 01:30
Jay! Hit that "download private messages as:" button and then clear out your inbox! :D I can't send you a pm!


I guess this depends on how long Kim takes to get back to me about some 'normal' coloured leather sheets, but I think I measured I need a little more than 10x8 inches is necessary for all the panels, so if you that much going then I could sort you out some moola over paypal (if I can convince a friend of mine to let me use theirs :D )

If you don't have that much going, then no worries :)

Thanks!