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I'm in the market for a new camera. Mainly car/street/night sky photography. I know I'll be buying a fast lens to use instead of kit. Thoughts between Nikon D3300, Nikon 1 J5, Fujifilm X-A2 or maybe the newer Olympus PEN E-PL7.
Found my new favorite camera shop in Shibuya. Tons of antique Russian and Japanese cameras and the full array of Lomo series cameras.
Gave a talk to Washington Apple Pi this morning and received the greatest thank-you gift ever: a Holga 120 rollfilm camera.
It is made of plastic and has many imperfections and no technical superlatives of any kind. But it's become a cult camera because -- like so many of us -- it has a winning personality and thus people tend to reclassify its faults as mere Quirks.
Quirks of the Chinese-made Holga include: a cheap, distortive lens that vignettes the corners of the frame and a poorly-designed back that leaks light. This kit actually includes a roll of electrical tape. The instructions urge you to tape down the two AA batteries that power the flash and to strap the camera with it to tighten the back a little better.
The group presented it to me after my talk and I couldn't have been more delighted. I took a seat while the rest of the meeting continued. Thennnn...
...I noticed that film was included in the box.
I am a weak man. So yes, I unwrapped the cellophane and tried to assemble the camera and load it up as quietly as I could. There was no way I was leaving there without Holga shots of the group.
Here, let me show them to you:
Oh.
It's on film.
I have to send it out and wait for the prints to come back.
Well, we can look forward to that, then.
Apple Pi went to the top of the range and bought me the Holga 120CFN, with built-in flash AND integrated color flash filters. Twist the knob up at the top and and Red, Blue, and Yellow filters rotate into position to color the flash light.
(I have just had a discussion with the friend I'm staying with -- a scientist -- about whether this thingy is Filtering the light or Tinting it.)
(I have some really awesome friends.)
I'm going to have a lot of fun with this (for the next 12 exposures, at least). The whole point of the Holga is to return to the days of fun, snapshot photography. If there's no chance of producing a clear image free from defects, you can dispense with the Lust For Perfection and just take some damned pictures.
Check out the manual right here.
Damn, I've spent almost an hour engrossed in the Holga FAQ, and a set of instructions for how to use the Holga lens on a DSLR, and a Holga group on Flickr, and...
...Okay I'm clearly going to be up for a while. You kids go play.
A year in 35mm Film 365 Project - Photo a Day
Photo taken using a dedicated NIkon FM2 for the project on iso 400 Ilford HP5+
Circa 1950s - this camera is the tiniest one I've ever seen apart from spy cameras. Another appreciated Xmas present from Lisa. Now all I need to do is track down 16mm film for it..
Olympus Pen D - been waiting for this tiny camera won on eBay last December ('09), ready for a test drive!
Pen F and Minolta MG16 were given to me by an uncle this past weekend. Unfortunately both have stuck shutters.
Here, the pinhole in the aluminum foil over my window (right) focuses an image of Ellsworth Avenue on the canvas (left). Exposure time was like 20 minutes.
"All that in this delightful garden grows,
Should happy be, and have immortal bliss." Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene, 1590
America - what a country. Cameras grow like watermelons. They throw out some camera seeds, sprinkle with water, and cameras sprout from the earth. Everyone in America has so many cameras they just leave them lying around on the ground.
This is at the 2007 MLB Baseball All-Star Game Home Run Derby at AT&T Ballpark in San Francisco
This is my Ferrania box camera. I'm guessing it's from the 1930s? If anyone has any info, I'd love to hear from you.
The vast majority of Britain's CCTV cameras are operating illegally or in breach of privacy guidelines, a new watchdog has warned.
London has 7.2 million residents and the UK has around 60 million, the country has at least 4,285,000 cameras, approximately one for every 14 people.
Up to 90 per cent of surveillance cameras may be breaching the Information Commissioner's code of practice laid down to stop cameras being used inappropriately. Even more seriously, a large proportion of the UK's 14.2 million cameras breach the Data Protection Act and so are illegal, the watchdog CameraWatch warned.
www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/factcheck+how+many...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=queM4c-W048
The United States is fast growing it's army of surveillance CCTV cameras.
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
(my favoirte book of all time)
Holga 120N toy camera + Kodak Professional Ektar 100 medium format film
A photograph made during September work week explorations with colleagues in the Big Reed Forest Reserve ... ...early morning paddles, hikes with lots of talk about the past and possible future of this old growth, considering forest succession, tree measures, spending time identifying plants, mushrooms, and critters, discussing the fate of arctic charr endemic to the pond, appreciating the diversity in this beacon of wilderness. ...but also jokes, Jack Daniels, guitars, and of course, my Holga toy camera.
Camera: Chamonix 45n-1
Lens: Rodenstock 135mm f/5.6 Apo-Sironar-S
Film: Ilford FP4+ @ ISO 64
Exposure: 17 min 21 sec @ f22
Date: June 23, 2016
Identifier: lf_2016-06-23_002
[2008-06-01] Leatherhead, Saturday 8th March 2008 (16:53), Pentax-M (sic) 28mm lens, Fuji PRO400H film, f5.6 (auto) (New ... well, about 20 years old - a Ricoh KR10x that belonged to Luz and had been sitting in a cupboard unused for years ... The light seals had turned to a smelly black goo, the rewind knob had come off, and the light meter ... well, very, very stupidly, I didn't check it until after the 26th shot of this film, when I realised it was about 1 and 1/3 stops out (which I should have noticed), so was overexposing by that much. From [06-27], the film speed was set to 1000 (for this 400 ISO film), so I just hope the inaccuracy is even across the light range and this "recalibration" works. As you can see, light got in through the back of the camera on this shot (and the next - not uploaded); maybe it was after these I added more brown electrical insulating tape round the outside of the camera (and especially the hinge) to stop light getting in. If it wasn't that, I don't know why this problem stopped. I like this camera. though, so I hope I can get everything working properly ... (What is this car, by the way?)
Coquerel`s Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli )
I was visitting a lemur sanctury near Antananarivo,Madagascar,when I saw this little guy sunning himself ,up in a tree. Directly I pressed the shutter button ,he moved his hand ,in front of his face . I accused him of being camera shy ,but this was his response .........................
Opening the 2009 tranny season with a meal in Concord.
The long floral dress is from Wallis. And, yes Elaine, it's one from the BBBBoG :-)
A small, yet capable SLR. I love how it's so unobtrusive and quiet. The shutter sound is very discreet. My copy was professionally CLA'd and is in excellent condition. It returned some excellent photos from the island of Rhodes this summer. A good overview here: