Mar - 25th
Thrift Store Finds
Posted at 9:51 pm | Filed Under film, Olympus
I picked up an Olympus Mju (Stylus) today, for the unheard-of price of $3.99. Several years ago, most people needing a compact camera bought point-and-shoot cameras with long, soft, slow zoom lenses. At the same time, a handful of compact point-and-shoot cameras like the Olympus Mju-1, Mju-2 (Stylus Epic), Nikon Lite Touch, Yashica T4, and [...]
Mar - 20th
Act Like Ya Know
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under art, film, journal, plastic
Another WTF moment walking around San Francisco. Sutro Tower, Magnum, the Bay bridge and Abe Lincoln FTW!
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 [...]
Mar - 18th
Signpost
Posted at 7:00 pm | Filed Under art, film, plastic
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 [...]
Mar - 4th
Aiptek Pencam SD — Digital Holga, or a better Digital Harinezumi?
Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under art, film, pencam, plastic
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 slot. [...]
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 [...]
Jan - 24th
On Lomography
Posted at 11:03 am | Filed Under art, film, journal, lomo
I’ve known Sarah Zucker for some time through her photography online. her essay, On Lomography echoes many of the sentiments regarding “Lomography” that I’ve been feeling. Other “Lomographers” inspired me to begin capturing intimate and mundane moments in my life on film. I shared my photos on lomo.org and lomo.us, two online bulletin boards, and [...]
Jan - 19th
Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim on lomography.com
Posted at 5:06 pm | Filed Under film, photography, plastic, vivitar UWS
The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim is a wonderful little plastic toy camera. At first glance, it looks like any other $2 junk shoppe camera, but the devil is in the details. The UW&S has a 22mm lens – that’s wider than any DSLR zoom or digital point and shoot. Normally, to get that wide, [...]
Jan - 16th
It’s Not The Photographer, It’s The Camera!
Posted at 7:23 pm | Filed Under art, film
I enjoy reading the high end DSLR discussion boards on the internet. Those gearheads go ape over minute differences in “chromatic aberration” and “barrel distortion”. They peep at pixels in Photoshop to see if their lens is able to give them a sharp image blown up to the size of the side of a barn. [...]
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 ]
