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LOMOWalk

Kurt Weiske — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:02:50 +0000

The first batch of pictures from the LOMOWalk in North Beach last weekend.

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LomoWalk, North Beach

Kurt Weiske — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:52:59 +0000

I went to the North Beach LOMOWalk put on by the Lomographic society, and it was well worth a trip into the city. We had about 25 people there, with a handful of Dianas, Holgas, LC-As, DSLRs, 4/3s digital cameras, Lubitels, and my trusty Jazz Jelly.

I’ve got 3 rolls going to the photo processor, but here’s an Instagram to get you started.

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LOMO LC-Wide

Kurt Weiske — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:30:06 +0000

Introducing the Lomo LC-Wide, the latest iteration of the LOMO LC-A. Equipped with a 17mm Minigon Ultra-Wide Angle lens, this LOMO takes a bold step forward after minor differences here and there between LC-A models. The LC-W keeps the familiar features common to other LC-As, like automatic exposure, heavy vignetting, long shutter speeds, extended ISO range, and unlimited multiple exposures— But allows you to shoot half-frame , full frame and square format. This is TEMPTING.

Additional Information

Features	• Takes all types of 35mm (135) format film including colour negative, slide, black and white and redscale • Boasts our newly-developed 17mm Minigon Ultra-Wide Angle lens • Format Frenzy: Choose between full, square or half-format shots! • Stunning vignetting, mind-blowing colour saturation and contrast • Unlimited multiple exposures • Closest focusing distance closer to 0.4m • Film ISO capability ranges from ISO 100-1600 • Programmatic auto-exposure • Lightning-fast zone focusing • Standard cable release thread for easy long exposure Technical Specifications: • Exposure area: 36 x 24mm, 24 x 24mm (square format), 17 x 24mm (half frame format) • Film Type: Standard 135 roll film • Lens focal length: 17 mm • Maximum aperture: 1:4.5 • Angle of view: 103 degrees, 89 degrees (square format) 81 degrees (half frame format) • Focusing range: 0.4m – infinity • Maximum shutter speed: 1/500 • Minimum shutter speed: Unlimited • Auto exposure mode: Programmatic • Exposure range: Unlimited ~ EV18 • Multiple exposure: Manual shutter cocking with independent MX switch • Film sensitivity supports (ASA/ISO): 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 • Flash: X-type synchronization hot-shoe • Tripod socket thread: Standard ¼” tripod socket • Cable release: Universal cable release socket • Overall dimensions: 4.25″ x 2.68″ x 1.75″ • Weight: 220g (film and battery not included)
Camera Type	Zone Focus
Microsite	http://microsites.lomography.com/lc-wide
Film Type	35mm

The LC-Wide is available from Lomography online or in any of their retail stores for $390 and the Instant Back retails for $25.

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Just Broken In

Kurt Weiske — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:22:49 +0000

[ via Rêveries Quotidiennes ]

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Film Canister USB Key Drives!

Kurt Weiske — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:02:42 +0000

These film canister key drives are must-have for anyone like me who’s shooting digital and missing film. 2 and 4 gigabyte versions available via http://www.etsy.com/shop/newfocus?ref=pr_shop_more

I’ll take the Superia Reala 100 roll on the right, please.

[via Etsy]

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Arch, Redux

Kurt Weiske — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:19:26 +0000

Yesterday’s post reminded me of an old LOMO photo I took in 2002.

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Top 20 Ultimate Ways to Use a Disposable Camera

Kurt Weiske — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:15:55 +0000

Photojojo has a great page on the Top 20 Ultimate Ways to Use a Disposable Camera

I love disposable cameras – they reinforce the concept that true art isn’t made by the camera, but the eye behind it.

From their page:

When it comes to photography, we like to root for the little guy.

He’s the picture taker that works hard, is easy going and is always around when you need him.

Yep, we’re talking about one of our old favorites: the disposable camera.

While we love adding filters to our phone pics and making masterpieces with our DSLRs, there’s something magical about disposable cameras we can’t forget…

They’re cheap, fun to play with and can do almost anything!

Here’s our top 20 list of didn’t-know-you-could-do-that ways to use, abuse, modify, and make the most of your disposable camera!

Go buy a disposable camera and see what you can do with it! I plan on doing so and will post pix back here when I do.

And, sign up for Photojojo’s newsletter at photojojo.com. You’ll be glad you did.

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The Lomographic Society’s “Sprocket Rocket”

Kurt Weiske — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:01:33 +0000

From the Lomographic Society’s microsite:

The evolution of mankind has brought with it a whole host of technical achievements; the light bulb, the first car, the power of flight and even putting a man on the moon – but none of these can be compared to the unveiling of the Sprocket Rocket! We at Lomography are proud to present to you a sleek and retro miracle in analogue photography! We’re pushing the boundaries of technical evolution with the world’s first panoramic camera dedicated entirely to sprocket holes.

But wait, there’s more! The Sprocket Rocket is the first analogue camera to be fitted with a reverse gear, allowing you to rewind and remix your photos! Travel back in time with our ultra-convenient dual scrolling knobs. Feel like overlaying a brand new moment on top of that beautiful shot you took last week? The Sprocket Rocket can make it happen! Dance, dart and flutter between frames to your heart’s content. As if this wasn’t enough, it’s also fitted with a super wide-angle lens enabling you to open up your world and snap those breathtaking panoramas. Don’t be fooled by its small and compact shape, the Rocket can fit more in a single frame than you ever thought was possible!

Available now.

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Kodachrome – your last chance!

Kurt Weiske — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:50:38 +0000

Dwayne’s Photo would like to remind the world that December 30th, 2010 is the last day of processing for all types of Kodachrome film. Any film that isn’t in their lab by noon that day will be returned undeveloped. If you’re in Europe, Kodak will accept prepaid Kodachrome film pouches until November 30th and forward them to Dwayne’s at no charge.

The elderly Kodachrome developing system will be dismantled after the final run, although Dwayne’s will remain open to process all types of modern C-41 compatible film.

Dwayne’s Photo – film processing and printing

[via retrothing ]

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Rnjz

Kurt Weiske — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:24:34 +0000

Oranges. Lomo LC-A+, 99 cent store 200 speed film

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Hawaii via toy camera

Kurt Weiske — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:15:27 +0000

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Building with Flare

Kurt Weiske — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:59:31 +0000

Building with Flare. Jazz 207 Jelly, Generic 200 ISO film.

Another city shot taken with my Jazz 207 Jelly camera. It’s rapidly becoming my favorite toy camera. Again.

And, my original Jazz post is now #3 on Google searches for “Jazz Jelly”!

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Four Five Two, Jazz Jelly 207

Kurt Weiske — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:05:15 +0000

Shot with a Jazz Jelly 207, fairly high-tech as plastic cameras go. Integral lens cover, built-in flash, small enough to fit in your pocket. Classic plastic wide-angle lensed-goodness, fixed shutter speed. Shoot ISO 200 speed film outdoors. Flash is good for 10 feet if you’re lucky (and shooting ISO 400 speed film).

This roll came out with a Matrix-like green cast.

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Sidewalk Reading, San Francisco

Kurt Weiske — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:30:09 +0000

I caught this on my walk home last week. I don’t know if the reader was planning on coming back and was saving the place or not.

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Standpipes

Kurt Weiske — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:00:11 +0000

Playing around with my LOMO LC-A+, Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.

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Four Chairs

Kurt Weiske — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:01:52 +0000

Four Chairs.

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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Ciao, digital. Hello, unpredictable art.

Kurt Weiske — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:00:34 +0000

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 image is going to turn out when you shoot with a plastic camera. The unpredictability is a big part of the draw,” says San Francisco photographer Carlos Arietta, one of the many artists whose work is on view in the RayKo Photo Center’s 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show.

The show, which features more than 100 images by amateurs and pros from around the Bay Area and far beyond, is filled with intriguing pictures made with simple plastic-lens-and-body cameras that inherently produce soft-focus, often dreamy images. There’s a surreal, painterly quality to many of the photographs, particularly the work of Czech artist Michael Borek, whose images are being showcased this year. He shoots with the popular Chinese-made Holga camera (the gallery is selling new Holgas for $35). His mysteriously beautiful “Homage to Kamil Lhotak” brings Magritte to mind. A hot air balloon carrying two figures hangs in a twilight blue sky, a strange glow of light emanating from the blurry town in the distance.

Borek had been obsessed with making super-sharp and refined digital images “until I met Holga,” he wrote. “She helped me let go and took me to the realm where imperfection and unpredictability – thanks to light leaks and lack of focus – can be inspiring.”

Arietta, who teaches digital photography, printing classes and does high-end digital production work at RayKo, loves the unexpected results he gets with his Vintage Diana, a plastic camera using 120 mm film that was mass-produced in Hong Kong in the 1960s and ’70s. He bought it from a friend for $54 (you can buy a new Diana for $50).

“With digital, it’s instant gratification,” Arietta says. His untitled contribution to the show is a loose, abstracted black-and-white image – shot from inside a spindly metal sculpture strung with bottles – printed on fine art paper on which he painted Pollock-like splatters with photographic emulsion. “With a plastic camera, you have to leave it to chance. Each image is a gift. Sometimes you get an amazing gift, sometimes you get something you don’t want.”

Nearby hangs a blurry, motion-filled nighttime street scene by Vancouver photographer Rachel Fox, shot with a Holga.

“One of the things about the Holga is that there’s a setting called ‘bold’ that lets you keep the shutter open,” says Audrey Jones, the RayKo workshop coordinator, gazing at Fox’s picture. “With the long exposure, you get images of cars passing through. It’s capturing movement.”

Entering the gallery, you encounter “Stop,” a dynamic color photograph by Layven Reguero of Las Cruces, N.M. It shows a woman in a bar holding her hand up to the photographer through a row of unidentifiable red rectangles that run through the frame. “Those red marks are probably light leaks, which can create weird traces of colors and patterns on the film. Or it could also be a double exposure, perhaps of a window, with a red light illuminating it from behind. One of the interesting things about the Holga is its ability to take multiple images on one frame, and have these layers of images built up on each other.”

Then there’s “Old Oak,” a big black-and-white photograph by Robert Holmgren of Menlo Park that was awarded Best of Show. An ink jet print on tracing paper, it’s an image of an gnarled old tree casting sculptural shadows on the wall of a brick building with narrow little windows (perhaps a jail). The play of light and shadow is equally striking in Holmgren’s “Sears,” which has the quiet intensity of a Robert Bechtle photorealist drawing. A palm tree rises above the horizontal sweep of the building that bears the shadow of its slender trunk.

RayKo’s Juried Plastic Camera Show: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Tues.- Thurs., 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Through April 18. RayKo Photo Center, 428 Third St., S.F. Free. (415) 495-3773. www.raykophoto.com.

[ via sfgate.com ]

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ZANINE

Kurt Weiske — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:15:53 +0000

Mezzanine. Vivitar plastic camera, Generic 200 ISO film.

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Fire-Water (Happy Accident)

Kurt Weiske — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:39:52 +0000

Fire-Water. Penmax YN-3 plastic camera.

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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Tim Putz presents Sambo’s Photographs

Kurt Weiske — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:04:29 +0000

Tim Putz photographed over 100 Sambo’s restaurants between 1964 and 1970, and has made the photographs available for sale on his site, www.sambosphotos.com

These photographs are a wonderful time capsule capturing the architecture of an increasingly lost era, and miraculously have me craving pancakes and sausages!

Many of us enjoyed those mouth-watering pancakes, with tiger butter or with bacon and eggs, and those other favorites like steak, chicken and burgers?

Relive those nostalgic days with these original prints from this exclusive photographic collection. This is a first time offer of these rare color images of the restaurant exteriors and interiors.

Although over 35 years old, these pictures are in good condition. (The color images are 8×10 and larger and are not framed or may be mounted).

This vintage collection of color photographs depicts over 100 of the original Sambos Pancake Houses. By the late 70s there were over 1200 restaurants from coast to coast.

Most of these restaurants were based on the original architecturally designed concept restaurants of the mid 60s. From the first restaurant in Santa Barbara, opened in 1957, the Sambo’s Restaurant concept spread throughout the United States.

[ via sambosphotos.com ]

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