Innova Pinhole
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It had been several years since I had last been out to Abiqua Falls. In fact, on that first trip Owen wasn't even quite two years old and him and Wendi waited in the car while I navigated the slippery, mud slope down to this relatively remote waterfall. So during the recent cold snap, we figured it was time for a return visit. Personally, I was hoping for a bit of ice, and though the puddles of water on the road down to Abiqua were crusted with ice, the falls were sadly lacking any of the frozen stuff.
That didn't slow down me or my pinhole very much though.
One from the marvelous Innova 6x9 Pinhole camera. I love the movement in those pink-blossomed branches.
I apologize again for being so absent from Flickr. I'm headed to Seattle soon for a conference and will be back in not-too-long, but I doubt that I'll truly have time to play "catch-up" on many of my favorite streams until I go home to Iowa in a week or two. Very much looking forward to that (Iowa, and catching up!)
Many years ago a friend made a customer pinhole camera for me. It was part of a series of cameras he did which he called Innova 6x9 pinholes. It seemed like each one he made was crafted from one exotic wood or another. Mine for instance used zebrawood because he thought the wood and my name made a good pair. I used that camera a lot. For a time it replaced my Zero Image 6x9, which was starting to show its years (and wear and tear). But then my Innova was crippled by an event completely out of its control. Kodak, while wrestling with an issue related to their backing paper, decided to change how they printed numbers on their rolls of 120. Specifically, they eliminated a row of the 6x9 numbers used to position each frame when manually winding film through a camera. The problem was that the red window in the back of the Innova was aligned with this eliminated row of numbers and not the row that was left. So it became very much a guessing game to know how far to advance your film. I tend to use mostly color film in my pinhole cameras, and Kodak Ektar more than anything else. So this presented an impediment. Maybe if my Innova had been my only pinhole I would have pushed through and crafted a solution, but I have about ten other pinholes so I just shifted my attention elsewhere and my Innova went into semi-retirement. Eventually Kodak reintroduced the second row of numbers for 6x9 but my Innova stayed on the shelf. There is no more insidious force than the force of habit, and my habits had settled in with other cameras. Many more years went by until last month. As I was packing cameras for a trip to Seattle to see the cherry trees at the University of Washington campus my eyes alighted on my Innova, which has been sitting there all along atop my camera shelves. I don't quite know what had changed in that moment but I decided to dust it off (literally and metaphorically) and go shoot some 6x9 pinhole with it. So in the bag it went and up to Seattle with me. It had probably been at least five years since I had last used this camera but was certainly not too long a time as to prevent me from enjoying becoming reacquainted with it. I think this is my favorite of the eight images I made that because boy, those trees.
Innova 6x9
Kodak Ektar 100
Porque si quieres un gorro de oveja hay tropecientas maneras de hacerte uno. Sé creativo.
Un beso grande a Peggy!
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Because if you want a sheep hat, you have zillion ways to make one. Be creative!
Sending lots of kisses to Peggy!
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I revisited one of my favourite spots recently, this pretty obscure Toyota Innova. It's owned by the embassy of Uzbekistan but was sold new somewhere in the Middle East judging by the Arabic writing on the wing mirrors
Mountain roads are not easy for driving. One must keep calm and let other pass . Just relax drive and enjoy the view :).
One of my earlier images with my Innova 6x9 pinhole. I made this in the hollowed out stump of a tree near Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park. It was raining a bit and I tried to shield my new camera as best I could to break it in gently, but I must have got a bit of rain near the pinhole.
Something about this image makes me think of a city, or perhaps Monument Valley.
I was a bit disappointed that the Sun came out. The clouds were barely visible in all of the digital shots, but the Innova pinhole camera with the Kodak Ektar saved the day.
Kept this as close to the original output from the camera. 1 exposure. Again, the image resembles very much the Canon 5Dc, without all the shadow noise. Quite a "bleh" sunrise though.
A very obscure import, owned by an Uzbek diplomat. These were only sold in a few Asian markets, including Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. I've seen it once before, last year, but I wasn't able to get any decent photos of it. Weirdly these weren't actually sold in Uzbekistan.
Welly as ever continue to bring out interesting castings of vehicles from all over the World including this Toyota Innova, a vehicle i'll admit i'd never heard of until I bought this. Being a Welly it has great levels of detailing and scale model levels of accuracy for the sub Mattel price. Bought from a Bulgarian Ebayer. Mint and boxed.