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This was a 37 second exposure of a very dark room. Didn't notice the projected image of the abandoned building across the street until I got home. A tiny hole in the board covering the window created a pinhole camera effect.
I bought a new camera today. My old one, a trusty Olympus C470 was a fine compact camera for its day and has served me well since 2005, but seven years down the line its battery is knackered and compared to newer cameras it's slow and not particularly light sensitive. So, time for a new one. A Canon Ixus 230HS. This is literally the first picture I took with it with everything set to auto except for the flash, which I switched off. Not bad, is it?
Ordered a Nikon D80 last night, and it's already on the way. Got the added battery base ... less for the added functions and more because I think it looks cool. Got some other items ... a good way to blow $1,000.
I came to the conclusion I was just too cheap to get the D300. At least for now. I bet I own one some time in the future. But this will be a nice upgrade from the D70s; I will find out for sure as I shoot flowers at the annual Orchid Mania show the entire month of February for my Still Life feature. And in March the Winter Aconite will be popping up at Schoepfle, then crocus ... and I will be off and running for the year.
Let's see if I can keep my Still Life enthusiasm going through 2008. It would be nice to have a couple dozen shows on the Web before I call it quits.
The lens is excellent !
Review article about X-T10 my husband wrote in Japanese.
I took the photos of the camera for it.
Margan and I took the plunge for full-sensor DSLR's -- Santa brought us Canon 5D Mark III's on his sleigh (well, actually Margan and Amazon had something to do with it, but the Santa story is sweet). Took them to California for our Christmas visit and have been processing and posting since.
I also decided (which I will likely regret) to do another 365 project this year. I did 2014 and it was a fun and learning experience. The only caveat I will make is that, if a day happens when I cannot make a photo, I will retrieve one from the archives that day. This was an easy day 1 of 365 (actually 366, since this is a Leap Year!).
Flagship model of Fuji X series. My husband wrote the review in Japanese, I took the photos of the camera for the article, in March.
The first part
news.mynavi.jp/articles/2016/03/09/x-pro2_1/
The latter part
My Prints: wade-brooks.pixels.com/featured/1-a6000-sony-wade-brooks....
New gear to play with and hopefully a good little walking around street camera. Time will tell.
Oh, and I already love the little popup flash. Reminds me of R2-D2 for some reason. Very cool!
Cheers,
Wade
While shooting in San Francisco, I bumped into this chap, i can't remember his name, but he was skating around with this bad boy camera round his neck.
Its a Mamiya RZ/RB, and it quite a bold camera to shoot on the streets with especially on a skateboard.
Stella ~ Patti ~ Sicily ~ Italy ~ Monday April 23rd 2012.
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Well, this is an image of my friends Kitty Stella, who is very camera shy, everytime I went to take a photo of her she ran away...this is her in one of the moments when she didn't scarper...although a few seconds later
she did...:((
Oh well, the sun is out today and the sky is blue, better make the most of it before the rains return this evening I guess..:)
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After the bombing of Dresden in World War II, most of the Zeiss Ikon production facilities were destroyed. Everything was lost: machinery, tools, parts and plans. Gone was what had been Zeiss Ikon's 35mm flagship for the last 15 years, the Contax.
After the war, one branch of the story went to the Ukraine, where the Soviets took a rebuilt Contax production line for what was to become the Kiev camera. The other branch went to Stuttgart, where what remained of Zeiss Ikon in the West started anew in the old Contessa-Nettel production plant.
Zeiss Ikon Stuttgart soon started making finest and ingenious 35mm cameras (Contessa, Ikonta, Contina, later Contaflex, ...), especially thanks to Hubert Nerwin's genius. The Contax IIa (and its light metered sister IIIa) was a complete redesign of the prewar Contax II.
My Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa was built in 1952 and belonged to a gentleman from Berlin, who was a professional musician and passed away only recently. The camera was found in his broom closet after decades of oblivion. Since in the eBay auction the word "contax" was nowhere to be found, it flew under the avid collectors' radars and allowed me to get it for a tiny fraction of its true value.
A little reluctant in the slow speeds at first, some exercise soon helped it fire more and more reliably, like the purebreed it is. Film transport and shutter tensioning has a buttery smooth quality to it that is a joy to operate. The lens, a coated Carl Zeiss Sonnar 50mm 1:2 shows pretty bad separation of the cemented glass elements (as revealed by the iridiscent reflections along the borders) but so far I haven't been able to see any serious impact on the pictures.
When it comes to vintage 35mm rangefinders, it hardly gets any better than this. I'm really happy :)
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El bombardeo de Dresde al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial destruyó casi la totalidad de la capacidad de producción de Zeiss Ikon. Todo desapareció: maquinaria, herramientas, partes y planos. También se perdió el que había sido el buque insignia de Zeiss Ikon durante los últimos 15 años, la Contax.
Terminada la guerra, una rama de la historia nos lleva a Ucrania, donde la Unión Soviética instaló una línea de producción de la Contax que hizo reconstruir y que fue el origen de las cámaras Kiev. La otra rama nos lleva a Stuttgart, donde lo que quedaba de Zeiss Ikon en la Alemania Occidental arrancó de nuevo en la antigua planta de Contessa-Nettel.
Zeiss Ikon Stuttgart pronto comenzó a producir cámaras de 35mm, bellísimas e ingeniosas (Contessa, Ikonta, Contina, más tarde Contaflex, ...), en especial gracias al genio de Hubert Nerwin. La Contax IIa ( y su hermana IIIa con fotómetro) fue un nuevo diseño desde cero de la antigua Contax II.
Mi Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa fue construida en 1952 y perteneció a un señor de Berlín, músico de profesión, que falleció a principios de 2014. La camera fue hallada en el cuarto trastero después de décadas de olvido. Como la palabra "contax" no aparecía ni en el título ni en la descripción de la oferta en eBay, pudo volar por debajo de los radares de ávidos coleccionistas y me permitió conseguirla por una pequeña fracción de su valor real.
Algo reacia con las velocidades lentas al principio, un poco de ejercicio la convenció para ir disparando de manera cada vez más y más fiable, como la pura sangre que es. El avance de película y tensión del obturador operan de forma suave y precisa. La óptica, una Carl Zeiss Sonnar 50mm 1:2, muestra una separación bastante grave de los elementos ópticos adheridos (revelada por los reflejos iridiscentes en el contorno), pero hasta ahora no he sido capaz de ver un impacto real en la calidad de las imágenes.
De entre las cámaras telemétricas de 35mm antiguas apenas hay nada mejor. Soy muy feliz :)
Since it's May Day I decided to do a group portrait of all my cameras with Communist origins. :-)
From top left:
Zenit E with 58mm f/2 Helios 44
Zorki 4 with 50mm f/2 Jupiter 8
Exakta RTL1000 with Meyer Optik Oreston 50mm f/1.8
Exa 1c with Pentacon 50mm f/1.8
Praktica BCX with Pentacon Prakticar 50mm f/1.8
Exakta Varex IIb with Zeiss Pancolar 50mm f/2
Praktica BX20 Tamron 28-50 (I don't have another B mount lens)
Zenit 3M with Mir 1 37mm f/2.8
Kiev 4 with 50mm f/2 Jupiter 8M
Praktica MTL5B with Pentacon 50mm f/1.8
I just got my first Canon AE-1 in the mail and guess what the first thing I did was? I took a picture of it. :D
Can't wait to try it out!
This photo was taken by my 3 year old son, with an expired disposable camera.
More film photos by my children here:
Contax IIIa
Zeiss released the Contax IIIa in 1951.
This one have color dial and flash synch both introduced in 1954.
More info here: www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/zeiss/contax/contax2a.htm
This is a hand rendered illustration of my first SLR film camera. The illustration is rendered in pencil and ink wash on 8 X 10 drawing paper. It is a much loved and much used camera so I wanted to reflect that by giving it a slightly loose drawing style, not photo-realistic, giving it a more intimate feel like the proverbial teddy bear in the attic.