Thursday, July 16, 2009

film


It's hard to argue the colours that so naturally appear when you shoot film. I'm a little sad that there's images from last fall on this roll of film that I only just got developed this month but in my defense there are no less than four cameras in my possession at the moment with film in them. (sadly, they each probably have pictures as old as the one above.)

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Film



It really is hard to argue against how warm film is.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Half Frame Cameras


I recently found a Konica EYE half frame camera at a garage sale. It had found its way into the "free" pile and being unable to resist 1: cameras and 2: free stuff, I ended up with it in my bag. It's a weird piece, very few adjustments or settings and it takes two pictures per traditional film frame. But it's not without faults. The roll of 24 I put into the camera should have yielded 48 vertical format images but instead I ended up with about half that. I thought I was being gentle with what I expected from it exposure wise, shooting mostly in bright light, holding the camera exceptionally steady, avoiding moving subject matter, but it would seem only about half of what I pointed it at was exposed properly. This would include the image above which is actually two images, not necessarily panned either, I'm certain they wouldn't collage together if I could remove the black bar between exposures. They do twin up nicely and they are one of the few good exposures I got from the camera. It will be hard to rationalize putting another roll of film into the camera but I'm glad I did it this one.

There's this one too, I suppose.



You don't have a lot of say about what pictures end up beside each other in the processing and scanning. I mean, yes, I define the order in which the pictures are taken but the juxtaposition of one against another is pretty much a 50/50 affair. Yet, the groupings of the few images that did work out are pretty spot on. I like these two images beside one another. It's good they weren't separated during scanning.