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Our weimaraner Cleo napping at the top of the steps next to my great grandfather's steamer trunk. The story goes that my great grandfather brought all his earthly belongings over from County Cork, Ireland near the end of the "Great Hunger". He ended up in Pittsburgh working for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, he eventually worked his way up to the position of Yard Master. He later worked for the Atlantic Richfield Refinery in Lawrenceville, PA. My grandmother gave me his truck in 1977.
Digital photo shot through the viewfinder of a 50 year old Kodak Duaflex.
I think this is what Eke was talking about at Züriflickrdrinks #40 - using another camera to take shots through the viewfinder of the Kodak Duaflex II. I used my Canon G7 in macro mode. Googling shows that it's best to use a tube to connect the two cameras, to block out external light and maintain the distance. Until I've made that, it's handheld and a bit hit and miss :-)
The girls, plus some local chickens, at a 1st August Bauernhofbrunch (farm brunch) in Schwendenen, Kanton Schwyz.
Thanks ZFD admins, that was a great idea for a prize!!
The viewfinder has been designed for all photographers who take advantage of the video shooting function in their modern digital camera.
The viewfinder provides 2,8x magnification. LCD image is bright and sharp, while magnifying lens makes the display even larger and clearer which allows one to control the frame, depth of field and exposure.
Large eye cup made of soft and rubber material properly darkens the viewfinder from inside which adds up to the perfect quality of the LCD image.
The viewfinder is mounted onto the camera with the use of a magnetic bracket.
The bracket should be attached with a narrow strap of tape. Since the viewfinder features four magnets on the mounting side, it can be easily and quickly detached from your camera.
Features
·Soft and rubber eye cup
·Left and right eye adjustment
·Magnification x 2.8 (220%)
·4mm magnetic bracket
·High-quality, soft-touch material
·Anti-reflexive coatings
Compatible
·Panasonic GF1/GF2/GF3/GH1/GH2/G3
·Sony NEX-5/NEX-3/NEX-3C/NEX-5C/NEX-5N/NEX-7
Bought this for 10USD. Everything works, but the camera is missing lots of its 1949 leather. Easy to fix. Planning on re-skinning with something colorful like orange. I'll reshoot when done.
The object on top of the camera is a small accessory rangefinder.
ViewFinders_Overseas_Outing Aug 2010- Jakarta --> Surabaya --> Bromo --> Solo --> Jogjakarta
Ijen Crater
The most amazing Indonesian volcano is Ijen Crater or Kawah Ijen (2,600m or 8,660ft tall), the "Green Crater" from Eastern Java, which has a lake made of 36 million cubic meters representing a solution of sulfuric acid and hydrogen chloride, the most powerful existing acids.
On the edges of the lake, the fumaroles (volcanic gas eruptions) depose 4 tonnes of sulfur daily. Such acid lakes are also found on the volcanoes Kusatsu-Shirane (Japan) and Poas (Costa Rica), but the Indonesian lake is by far the largest acid lake on Earth, having a maximum depth of 212m (706ft). These lakes result from the mix of rainfall water with gases coming from the depths of the volcano.
Kawah Ijen is the world's largest highly acidic lake and is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation in which sulfur-laden baskets are hand-carried from the crater floor.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an E-W-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. Coffee plantations cover much of the Ijen caldera floor, and tourists are drawn to its waterfalls, hot springs, and dramatic volcanic scenery.
The walls of the Kawah Ijen lake are light ocher, but the water has a turquoise color, with emerald reflexes. The temperature of the water is of 34o C, and sulfur bubbles float on the surface. The surroundings are covered by a sulfur powder. The smell is pungent and irritating, filled with sulfur dioxide. From place to place, sulfur pours at a temperature of 12ca0o C, like bright red trails, which gradually solidify, turning lemon yellow. The lake contains 600,000 tonnes of hydrogen chloride, 550,000 tonnes of sulfuric acid, 200,000 tonnes of aluminium sulphate and 170,000 tonnes of iron sulphate.
People from the neighboring area extract sulfur from the crater manually. Each worker can transport 40 to 70kg (90 to 155 pounds) at once on the abrupt slopes of the volcano, using bamboo ladders where the slope is too steep. In one day, a man can carry up to 360 kg (750 pounds) of sulfur. The daily production of the exploitation is just of 4 tonnes, a derisory quantity, if we consider the fact that the crater harbors 30,000 tonnes of sulfur. Industrial exploitation of the lake has not been planned so far, as the volcano erupts from time to time, projecting acid to the height of 600 m (2,000 ft) and splashing the neighboring areas with a corrosive rain.
I took this last night while laying in bed feeling sorry for myself. Using the duaflex is rather tricky - as I had it on it's side it was displaying the lamp upside down, and it resisted any attempt to get this image straight!
In the end I went with the wonky angle. I did some level adjustments to make it more contrasty.
It's going to be fun working with this. Nothing in focus and all sorts of crap on the viewfinder - going to make some interesting images
This is my temporary viewfinder for testing purposes to see if its useful or not. If everything goes well, I'll get the GV-2. :3
AGFA (Germany) made a series of 35mm fixed-lens viewfinder cameras with the name 'Silette' between 1953-1974 . This one has a Vario shutter and an Agnar lens , as presented in this German brochure .
To be mounted on the accessory shoe . 2 models : one with hot shoe contact on top and bottom (on the left) , and one with a simple accessory foot .
Day 141
Since starting Project 365, looking through a viewfinder has become second nature. I'm starting to get "it".
I'm going to be using this in a cool video project I have coming up. I needed to recreate the view you have while shooting so this is my template. Its a K10D viewfinder minus the acutal image (which I will add later). If you want to use this in a project just let me know and I can get you the full size image.