The Idlozi Is A Hand Made Talbotype Camera That Looks Into Your Soul
Jan 26, 2014
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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Polish photographer Emil Stankiewicz crafted this amazing Talbotype camera by hand. It is called Idlozi – the word comes from Africa and it means a window to your heritage soul. (yea, some stuff is better left in its native language).
Aside from the camera itself being 100% homemade, it uses homemade photographic paper (see the movies below)
One formula that Emil uses produces a negative paper, which Emil re-exposes on a new paper to get a positive, and other formula allow Emil to press the photos into thick paper producing stunning antique looking photos.
I would sure like to see someone kickstart this one….
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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6 responses to “The Idlozi Is A Hand Made Talbotype Camera That Looks Into Your Soul”
so photography on albumen?
Edit: I read up on albumen printing, though i haven’t been able to find information on shutter speed or equivalent ISO.
ISO sensitivity of the albumen is around 1-2 ISO
Sometimes I make positives on albumen. The first video shows the last workshop wet collodion and albumen prints. Normally inside the camera I use Foma paper or special papers covered in darkroom by photosensitive emulsion.
Bought papers has ISO about 3.
so in bright sunlight, at f/1.8 the exposure would be 1/10?
I had 1/15 sec in full sun at F/5.6
I don’t seen ever lens for 5×7′ with aperture 1.8
i have only 135 lenses… no medium format stuff.
so i will use that for 5×5 and for larger formats, i will use pin hole designs. calculations show 60 minute exposure with pinhole :)