Innova Pinhole
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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
A drive through Lakeside Oregon. Somebody must have emptied their closet because these scarecrows are all over town, all year 'round.
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.