Apr - 3rd

Four Chairs

Posted at 8:01 am | Filed Under art, film

Penmax toy camera, generic 200 ISO film. The Penmax is rapidly becoming one of my favorite toy cameras; it’s very similar to the “TIME Magazine” 35mm cameras. Shutter speed is approximately 1/100th second, a 2-blade diaphragm adjusts to f/8, f/11 and f/16 – and makes truly weird bokeh.

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Apr - 2nd

Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide

Posted at 5:32 pm | Filed Under art, digital

Have you downloaded Hipstamatic from the iTunes store yet? It turns your iPhone into a retro camera with a number of effects. There are lens effects, film effects and flash effects that can be layered on top of each other. A HUGE number of effects. Effects with bewildering names, like Kaimal, Helga (we can figure […]

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Apr - 1st

Ciao, digital. Hello, unpredictable art.

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, film

From SFGate.com comes this article about the 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show at Rayko Photo in Francisco. Plastic cameras are cheap, prone to light leaks and unpredictable. Which is why a lot of photographers are drawn to them in the digital age of pixel counts, precision focus and Photoshop. “You don’t know how the […]

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Mar - 31st

Filament

Posted at 6:10 pm | Filed Under art, digital

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Mar - 30th

ZANINE

Posted at 6:15 pm | Filed Under art, film

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Mar - 29th

Fire-Water (Happy Accident)

Posted at 6:39 pm | Filed Under art, film

Here’s a happy accident -� I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film. I then (a) thought I was done after exposure 24, and (b) opened the camera back while forgetting to rewind the film first, exposing the film.

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Mar - 23rd

3 Streetcars

Posted at 5:29 pm | Filed Under art, digital

I took a little PhotoCrawl on my lunch hour today, first to Kitchenette for lunch and then to see what’s changed in Dogpatch.

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Mar - 20th

Shoehorning a digicam into a Leica M

Posted at 6:30 pm | Filed Under art, digital

Leica has gone nouveau-retro with the digital Leica M series. Other companies, like Vivitar, have come out with digital cameras featuring current tech, but designs reminiscent of retro rangefinder cameras. This retro camera beats them all. The maker shoehorned a Sony DSC-WX1 digital camera into a Leica (or, more accurately, what appears to be a […]

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Mar - 20th

Act Like Ya Know

Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under art, film, journal

Another WTF moment walking around San Francisco. Sutro Tower, Magnum, the Bay bridge and Abe Lincoln FTW!

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Mar - 19th

Tableau

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

This roll of film sat in my freezer for several years before being shot in my LOMO LC-A+ last year, then it sat in the bottom of my 6 Million Dollar bag for a few more months after that. As a result, I have NO CLUE as to where I shot this. Anyone recognize the […]

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Mar - 18th

Signpost

Posted at 7:00 pm | Filed Under art, film

Recently, I’ve been shot most of my street candids portrait-style. I don’t know where this is coming from, maybe I should buy a square-frame medium format camera to cure myself of this? Or am I just looking for an excuse to buy a Holga, Diana or a Lubitel? Does anyone have a favorite, obscure medium […]

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Mar - 16th

Warehouse, SOMA

Posted at 11:45 pm | Filed Under art

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Mar - 7th

Disposable Film Festival – filmmaking workshop TODAY!

Posted at 11:23 am | Filed Under art, digital, pencam, tinycam

The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere gaining access to these devices, we […]

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Mar - 4th

Aiptek Pencam SD — Digital Holga, or a better Digital Harinezumi?

Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under art, film, pencam

  I took this picture with a Aiptek Pencam SD, a camera I liken to the Digital Harinezumi. The Pencam SD is roughly the same size, and does 1280×960 max resolution (still), and 6-8 frames per second at 640×480. Like the Digital Harinezumi, the Pencam SD has 64MB of built-in memory and an SD card […]

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Feb - 23rd

FUN NATURE FDC01, A New “Digital Holga”?

Posted at 9:54 pm | Filed Under art, digital, film

FUZZYEYEBALLS wrote about the “Fun Nature FDC01”, a new toy digital camera. While other camera manufacturers have been beating each other to market with higher megapixel sensors and features, the FDC01 stands apart. It’s a 1.9 megapixel camera with 64 MB on-board memory, SD expansion slot, rechargeable battery, 8 fps “movie” mode, and 3 photo […]

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Feb - 18th

Weathered

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, digital

I love being able to carry a single device that plays music, takes still and video pictures, and is small enough to carry with me all the time.

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Feb - 15th

Other

Posted at 12:19 am | Filed Under art, digital

Here is another random shot I wouldn’t have caught if I hadn’t had a camera phone with me.

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Nov - 25th

Fun with a Vivitar PN2011 “panoramic” camera

Posted at 5:41 pm | Filed Under art, film

I went out shooting with a Vivitar PN2011, a 35mm panoramic plastic camera. This is probably my favorite plastic camera to date, but I don’t know why. I think it’s big enough, the lens is wide enough, it feels sturdy enough and it’s got a lens cover to protect that $1.00 piece of plastic. They’re […]

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Nov - 19th

Leaf a la Jazz

Posted at 7:26 pm | Filed Under art, film

  Chromatic aberration? Pincushin distortion? Vignetting? Must be a Jazz Jelly! Shot with generic 200 ISO $.99 store film.

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Nov - 16th

Bell and Howell, more Plastic Camera fun.

Posted at 12:33 pm | Filed Under art, film

More plastic fun with a Bell and Howell $1.99 junk store camera.

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