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Vik and I bwtween us made a little pile of pinhole cameras using the instructions for making a pinhole camera from a matchbox from alspix
why? Because Sunday 30th April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, and we want to play. We're lucky that there's an event taking palce in Redcliffe Caves tomorrow where we're going to learn to make pinhole cameras from beercans, and use the caves as a darkroom to process them. It looks like a great event - details here, and details of events that may be taking place in your city here
So no idea if these will work - I am hopelessly inept at fiddly things - we'll see how they go..... oh, and I've cleverly managed to take a pic with the pinhole side on the bottom - stupid me! I'll do another tomorrow
The camera that started it all. This one's from the 1840's and part of the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
I like this one much betterrr. I bought this old film Minolta today in a charity shop, a whole £8. Bugger knows if it works or not, but i have a terrible obsession with old cameras. If i had the room and money, i'd buy tons. Maybe i'll take pictures of them all (:
Anyways, I put the camera on top of all my revision crap to represent the fact i would much rather take photos than revise boring old english. Ive got a week till my exam, and i've barely done any revision. eeek. hello fail.
I love old cameras♥
Textures:
The building is the earliest example in England of a circular library. It is built in three main stages externally and two stories internally, the upper one containing a gallery. The ground stage is heavily rusticated and has a series of eight pedimented projections alternating with niches. The central stage is divided into bays by coupled Corinthian columns supporting the continuous entablature. The pedimented windows stand above mezzanine openings, reflecting the interior arrangement. The top stage is a lanterned dome on an octagonal drum, with a balustraded parapet with vases.
The construction used local stone from Headington and Burford, which was then ashlar faced. The dome and cupola are covered with lead. The original plan was for a stone dome, but after building 5 ft. 8 in. of the stonework, it had to be removed and the design was changed. Inside, the original walls and dome were distempered but this was later removed, revealing the decorations to be carved in stone. Only the decorative work of the dome is plaster.[2]
Originally, the basement was an open arched arcade with a vaulted stone ceiling, with Radcliffe's coat of arms in the centre. The arcade arches were fitted with iron grilles: three of them were gates which were closed at night, and which gave access to the library by a grand staircase. In 1863, when the building had become a reading-room of the Bodleian, the arches were glazed, a new entrance was created on the north side in place of a circular window, with stone steps leading up to the entrance.[2]
The area around the Library was originally partly paved, partly cobbled, and partly gravelled. In 1751 stone posts and obelisks surmounted by lamps were placed around the perimeter. All but the three at the entrance to Brasenose Lane were removed around 1827 when the lawns were laid and iron railings installed.[2]
If your gonna toss it...
Minor crop and sharpen, otherwise SOOC. 3 light sources: white LED array, 7 color neon sign, and a color-phasing LED strip.
Not a polaroid, but I thought it was appropriate for a polaroid group.
I didn't really realize how many I had until I set them all out. I also have a couple of 600's and I have a 680 on its way.
SX-70 Accessory Kit
SX-70 model 3 (two of them)
SX-70 Alpha 1
SX-70 Sonar onestep
SX-70 Autofocus, Model 2 SE
ProPack
Square Square Shooter and Square Shooter 2 (two #2's)
Polaroid sx-70 one step
Land Camera 104
Land Camera 800
Spectra QPS
Spectra 1200FF
Sun 600
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.
My favorite camera. For those that do not know, the SX70 is a folding SLR, yes SLR, that was Polaroid's first integral instant film camera. It focuses down to 10 inches, and produces beautiful instant photographs. The camera has been described as a miracle, and I tend to agree.
This particular camera was bought new by my late Grandfather back in the early 1970s, and I inherited it a while back. Unfortunately Polaroid has stopped production of its native film, Time-Zero. I plan on using it with 600 film though.
The Voigtlander Bessa that I've cleaned up and pressed back into action. It is certainly not a practical camera (the top shutter speed is only 1/75) but it is still capable of producing high-quality results in undemanding situations.
With a 6cm x 9cm negative and a focal length of 105mm, a tripod is absolutely essential in order to get sharp images at the available shutter speeds (T, B. 1/25 and 1/75).
My M6 with Gordys camera strap. Excellent quality and unbeatable price. Its the Elmarit-M 28 on the camera. The fitting is red and the strap black :-)
See the blog post for more info: Maker Faire Austin 2007
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Found my new favorite camera shop in Shibuya. Tons of antique Russian and Japanese cameras and the full array of Lomo series cameras.
Vintage tiny camera. This cool little camera cost less than a dollar back in the sixties and actually took decent pictures using unperforated 16mm roll film. For small prints the quality was comparable to a Holga or Lomo.
"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
New type of camera will be released within 1 week!
Everybody is looking forward to Bidel FM2, now you can see Stacy's signature poster ahead.
Get ready to have it!
...well, just kidding. I made it up :P
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Bidel將在一周內發表眾所期待的新相機FM2，Stacy的簽名海報讓您先睹為快！
…好啦都是胡說。