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For any sports fan, top quality is a must.
The prime set up for a big game usually involves a big TV screen and zero lag.
However, one hobbyist combined his love for sports with his passion for vintage photography when he took a 127-year-old camera to a game.
The viral Reddit post shows a crowd member at a football game taking out a vintage camera from its storage pack with the overlaying text saying 'Shooting FA Cup football on a 127 year old camera.'
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The less than 30-second clip zooms in on the camera's eyehole before skipping to the end result: three aesthetically grainy black-and-white photos of the match - and they look pretty damn cool!
The original photographer, who is not the person who shared the clip, is Miles Myerscough-Harris, known for experimenting with 'weird' and outdated cameras on his social media.
Reportedly, the camera is a No.4 Cartridge Kodak from 1897, which Myerscough-Harris picked up at an antique store.
The backstory to the video is that Myerscough-Harris was asked by a Swedish football club to recreate a team photo from 1924, in which the photographer chose Ilford Delta 3200 film.
'I needed to be sure I had film that was fast enough to capture the image in an indoor stadium, on a camera with fairly rudimentary controls. It did the job perfectly! Plus the extra grain of 3200 ISO film helped make it look even more vintage,’ Myerscough-Harris, also a videographer, explained.
Some viewers pointed out that the match's camera crew were impressed by the vintage piece of tech, saying: 'love the camera guys checking out your camera' and 'Yep came here to say this, love that they full stopped their crowd panning just to appreciate the beauty of this old gem.'
One user was 'mind-blown' by the fact that the camera still worked given its age, to which another individual responded: 'Old analog cameras are insanely simple. A fixed lens and a shutter (sometimes with a simple clockwork timer, sometimes just a sliding flap that you open and close by hand) in a dark box.
'Changing the single frame film blind is a bloody PITA though.'
Less impressed individuals expressed frustration that the quality of the shot couldn't be fully appreciated due to the clip being in a vertical frame. One user sarcastically wrote: 'Imagine taking this video in landscape so that, when the pictures were shown, they would fit the frame better.'
