Nov - 8th
Woops!
Posted at 9:18 am | Filed Under film, journal
I’ve used York Photo for my mail order film processing for several years. They’re inexpensive ($2.20/roll, $1.50 shipping, and $1.00 scans), they turn rolls around in a week, and they partner with Snapfish for their online service. They offer perpetual hosting and have great deals on prints. I got my first rolls back from San […]
Nov - 4th
Special San Francisco PHOTOJOJO shoot this weekend!
Posted at 6:27 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
I received this email for a photo shoot this weekend. The mural work in the Mission district makes a wonderful subject for shooting, and the PHOTOJOJO people are a lot of fun. Hi! Your pals at Photojojo (that’s us) are planning a series of really fun photo events in San Francisco and you’re invited!We call […]
Nov - 3rd
More San Miguel de Allende / Guanajuato photos
Posted at 3:03 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
Untweaked, fresh out of my Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim.
Oct - 16th
Meikai El test shots, as promised!
Posted at 5:58 pm | Filed Under film
Oct - 15th
Cover
Posted at 10:02 pm | Filed Under film
Test with my new Olympus Stylus Epic.
Oct - 14th
World Toy Camera Day – October 18th!
Posted at 10:04 pm | Filed Under film
A World Toy Camera Day community affair with like minded toy camera photographers from all over the globe who take part on this day in the month of October. A day where we wake up in the wee hours of the morning and load all of our favorite plastic cameras like the Holga, Diana, Brownies […]
Oct - 10th
Another toy camera – Meikai EL
Posted at 8:12 am | Filed Under film
This is a Meikai EL, circa 1963. Bought on eBay, I was the only bidder! As toy cameras go, this one feels pretty solid. The body is metal and plastic and the leatherette makes it feel like a “real” camera. The film advance is smooth, and there’s an indicator to let you know when the […]
Oct - 7th
Left Lane
Posted at 11:16 pm | Filed Under digital
I’m still not sold on the Lensbaby – I like it, but I can get the same effect out of a Jazz Jelly camera or any other plastic camera. Or, I could shoot with a digital Stylecam Blink and not have to scan! I can shoot 10 megapixel raw images with my DSLR, though.
Oct - 7th
Stocking up on film
Posted at 9:15 am | Filed Under film
Sorting through my bookmarks, I found a film vendor online selling Lucky GBR 100 film for $2.00/36 exposures. This is my favorite film for LOMO shooting, as it’s sometimes as unpredictable as the LOMO is. Our joke on the lamented lomo.org BBS was that Quality was not Job One at the Lucky factory – one […]
Oct - 2nd
Avaya/Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 Residential Gateway notes
Posted at 7:51 pm | Filed Under blog
I have a wireless network segment at home using the Lucent RG-1000 residential gateway. The RG-1000 has been passed around from WaveLAN to Proxim to Lucent to Avaya to Agere and back to Proxim, and so finding documentation and drivers can be a problem. Here are my notes, should anyone else be looking for information […]
Oct - 2nd
First lensbaby shot
Posted at 7:34 pm | Filed Under digital, lomo
I received my Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim in the mail the same day I took my Lensbaby out for a spin at lunch. The irony of paying for a lens to put on a digital camera to mimic a $5 plastic film camera is not lost on me.
Oct - 2nd
Plastic Cameras
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under film
I love my TIME camera – it’s a Holga/Diana with the chromatic aberrations and vignetting, but without the cost of medium format film and development…
Oct - 1st
Just so you know…
Posted at 10:23 am | Filed Under digital
Even though my site now looks an awful lot like 4 corners dark from a distance, it’s unintentional! Really, it is! I like the look of soma fm, my favorite streaming radio station, liked their fonts and “borrowed” some of their CSS. The darker background, while not quite 18% gray, does show off images better […]
Sep - 29th
Blogs Kurt is reading
Posted at 2:22 pm | Filed Under blog
Nic Nichol’s blog: Four Corners Dark: Holga, Lomo, and low-fi photography. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I’m reading my own mind. He’s loving the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim camera (my own reviews forthcoming), ranting on the ranters who claim you can duplicate low-fi with photoshop, so why bother with plastic, and […]
Sep - 25th
Lomographic Society at Photokina 2008
Posted at 5:30 pm | Filed Under lomo
“The Lomography ‘Future is Analogue’ LomoWall exhibition is revealed at Photokina 2008!†It’s the 5th time Lomography has been invited to participate in the world’s largest photo-imaging event, so we are going all out in celebration of the unique creative use of film coming from one million+ Lomographers worldwide! The LomoWall forms the focal-piece of […]
Sep - 25th
Jazz Jelly camera, revisited
Posted at 9:56 am | Filed Under film, journal
My fixation with LOMO LC-As and film photography began in 2000. About that time, I started collecting toy film cameras. I like the aesthetic, I like the disconnect from technical frippery that a plastic lensed, single aperture, single shutter speed gives. I like vignetting. I like chromatic aberration. I like soft focus. One of the […]
Sep - 22nd
Linked networks
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under blog
Ok, so I post to WordPress. WordPress posts an update to Twitter via Twitter tools and to Livejournal. LJ gets the whole post with comments redirected to WordPress. Twitter posts a shortened URL to the blog post. Twitter gets slurped once a day into LoudTwitter, which also posts to LJ. And, Facebook also gets updated […]
Sep - 20th
Tubes
Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under digital, journal, pencam
Sep - 20th
Ride
Posted at 12:16 am | Filed Under pencam
Sep - 14th
Toy camera effects with digital SLRs
Posted at 1:45 am | Filed Under digital, pencam
I love lo-fi photography. Shooting lo-fi removes any obsession with capturing the “perfect” image. With lo-fi photography, I focus more on composition, creativity and experimentation than when I shoot with a “real” camera. Vignetting, soft edge focus, light aberrations, limited exposure latitude, color casts, even light leaks – the imperfections add a level of personality […]
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