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 - 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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Dec - 8th

Homebrew Kodachrome

Posted at 6:05 pm | Filed Under film

This DIY Kodachrome machine (the “Filminator”) was created to produce more film stock after the company discontinued productions. Michael, the creator, notes, “Plastic and goop go in one end, and camera film comes out the other end. This is not a trivial undertaking.” [ DIY film via boingboing ]

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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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Oct - 27th

What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know

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

Here’s a wonderful bit of advice for aspiring photographers from Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai at PhotoDino. What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know These are my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less. I get asked all the time, during workshops, in e-mails, in private messages, what words of wisdom I would give to a new and aspiring […]

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Aug - 28th

SOVIET UNION

Posted at 12:00 pm | Filed Under art, film, journal, lomo

Another forgotten photo – not quite sure where this was.

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Aug - 18th

LOMO’s New Mystery Camera

Posted at 12:45 pm | Filed Under film, lomo

@lomography has been all (ahem…) atwitter about a mystery camera announcement this week. The folks at Tongue in Chic seem to have blown the lid off of the announcement of the Diana Mini, a half-frame/full-frame 35mm version of the cult classic Diana plastic camera.

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Jul - 19th

Miroslav Tichy, redux

Posted at 12:03 am | Filed Under art, film

Miroslav Tichy is a reclusive artist who has resided in his hometown of Kyjov, Czech Republic, for most of his life. Born in 1926, he was a painter until the late 1960s, when he started taking photos, mostly of local women sunbathing, using equipment that he built himself. The cameras are made of cardboard, bottle […]

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Jul - 5th

Exposure-Mat, a free light meter (no batteries required!)

Posted at 7:54 pm | Filed Under film, journal

I’m a big fan of the Sunny 16 Rule for determining exposure. Print film is forgiving enough that you don’t always have to get the exposure *exactly* right to get a good shot. The”Sunny 16″ rule, paraphrased, says, “Set the shutter speed to the reciprocal of the film speed, and set the aperture to f/4 […]

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Jun - 21st

Continuing my projector fetish…

Posted at 8:29 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

…Continuing the “projector fetish” theme started with this post and this post…

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Jun - 17th

Warehouse, Dogpatch (SF)

Posted at 7:09 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

More LOMO + generic film goodness, and the lens correction filter in Photoshop CS2 to fix a bit of perspective shift.

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Jun - 13th

Drink.

Posted at 11:09 pm | Filed Under film, lomo

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Jun - 8th

Closed, Part Deux

Posted at 11:13 pm | Filed Under film, lomo

A followup to Closed for Business.

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Jun - 5th

Closed for Business

Posted at 5:05 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

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Jun - 4th

Lifeguard Shack

Posted at 12:43 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

No cross processing, just plain ol’ C-41 processing with no color correction requested.

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