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Had recently pb;ilshed two of my articles
As you all love me, I am sure you will all rush over and have a look :-) Seriously please hava look
The second one is better than the first it is about PC flash adapters which, if you have old cameras with a "cold shoe"
PC-flash adapter article
the other one is a frst draft that got published. Still nice pics and one guy even had the hide to tell me that I was doing it wrong.. he has NOOOOOO idea how LOMO works then..
Ilford SFX films
if any of you are interested even if remotely.. please use my referral link, I would love to win a camera....
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
I have been away BUT doing Lomography
A total of 18 rolls.. 9 120mm and 9 35mm the 120mm cost me $104 plus postage. I don't mind dropping the films 2 hours away but going back is all too much. For $10 I save 2hrs and $10 of fuel plus traffic etc etc
Today To my surprise my 120mm films were in the mail waiting for me. WHAT! I had dropped them off around 11am yesterday and here they are in my mail box 10m thursday WOW. I am fully astounded. Talk about worth every cent.
Vision Image Lab 10 Danks St Waterloo. Highly Highly recommended. I have talked about them before but they keep amazing me.
So anyway. Some highlights.. Most of you follow my adventures driving around the desert on my other blog if not, please catch up so these next days of photos will make some sort of sense.
First two days Koen was here I had to work so I caught up with them in the afternoon and we chased ships
The weather was in the mid forties Celsius and even with Sunscreen you got burnt. Talk about Horrible. UGH. We were rather happy to be leaving Sydney on Sunday.
Today To my surprise my 120mm films were in the mail waiting for me. WHAT! I had dropped them off around 11am yesterday and here they are in my mail box 10m thursday WOW. I am fully astounded. Talk about worth every cent.
Vision Image Lab 10 Danks St Waterloo. Highly Highly recommended. I have talked about them before but they keep amazing me.
So anyway. Some highlights.. Most of you follow my adventures driving around the desert on my other blog if not, please catch up so these next days of photos will make some sort of sense.
First two days Koen was here I had to work so I caught up with them in the afternoon and we chased ships
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| Clack Roll 1Circular Quay |
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| Clack roll2 Hornby Lighthouse |
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| Clack Roll 2 Rhapsody of the Seas |
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Film film arrived in the mail
I was flat out today cleaning, or attempting to clean the house. This is an impossible task, i am aware.
Yesterday i picked up my film from the Tim135 and in the mail today was the films from the Diana F and the red scale from the Lubitel.
All films were interesting. Not always a success but interesting. I have now discovered that the Diana F does not wind on properly and so you get double exposures or two exposures limked together. I did like the results. It is certainly random.
the TIM135 takes great photos esp with ISO 400 as with all tHese sorts of cameras, you need ISO 400 or higher. So I had low expectations for the Redscale which was ISO 100. as you can see below, not too bad.. Its not a film that I think the diana can handle.. Maybe the Lubitel 2 which is stuck on Bulb. :-)
The Lubitel 2 is an interesting camera, mine dates from 1959 to 1965, it is number 71xxx can't remember out if over 2 million made. It is stuck on Bulb but otherwise works fine. :-) a night camera for sure as these were made with a tripod mount.
Redscale film from Lomography.com
Diana F roll ( Lomo ISO 800)
TIM 135
And the mini isn't it cute!?
Yesterday i picked up my film from the Tim135 and in the mail today was the films from the Diana F and the red scale from the Lubitel.
All films were interesting. Not always a success but interesting. I have now discovered that the Diana F does not wind on properly and so you get double exposures or two exposures limked together. I did like the results. It is certainly random.
the TIM135 takes great photos esp with ISO 400 as with all tHese sorts of cameras, you need ISO 400 or higher. So I had low expectations for the Redscale which was ISO 100. as you can see below, not too bad.. Its not a film that I think the diana can handle.. Maybe the Lubitel 2 which is stuck on Bulb. :-)
The Lubitel 2 is an interesting camera, mine dates from 1959 to 1965, it is number 71xxx can't remember out if over 2 million made. It is stuck on Bulb but otherwise works fine. :-) a night camera for sure as these were made with a tripod mount.
Redscale film from Lomography.com
Diana F roll ( Lomo ISO 800)
TIM 135
And the mini isn't it cute!?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
So I picked up film from vision images
Sunday was a non shooting day, least for the most part. I did get the Lubitel 166b out for some sunrise photos, after using exposure app to see what i was doing wrong. Ah.... Yes.. Well never mind the main issue is this time is the 100ISO
MONDAY was a different kettle of fish... Tim was flying a 1940 tiger moth and as i have a great soft spot for these old ladies, i was no going to miss this shooting opportunity. Alas my digital camera had other ideas.. The sandisk CF card in the camera lost it's directory structure and hence my photos went missing. Thank goodness for husbands. He retrieved them all except the movies of the plane taking off. Well, disappointing but cannot be helped. ANYWAY I had packed the Lubitel, the Diana F, the sprocket Rocket, and the TIM135.. phew!! All had half rolls that needed to be finished off..i finished all the rolls off except the Sprocket Rocket. The Diana F developed a film jamming issue at exposure 15 & 16, and I had to be forceful in making the film roll forwards. When i took the roll out, it was not sitting properly and looked fat so the tension had slackened off. Something to look at next roll. I'll see how this roll went first. I immediately put it in one of my handmade canisters. (yay for husbands again)
New film arrived along with the flash adapter for the Diana. It doesnt seem to fit, this camera may just be too old for such nonsense.
I may retire this camera,if the roll doesn't work out. TBA. She is more of a museum piece anyway.
TUESDAY
Tuesday saw me back a work (boo) but this meant i was close to Vision Images. Good, I'll get the films. I was really looking forwards to getting my Ilford SFX film back. I even found a park out the front. Yay!! The filwere waiting. So i grabbed them greedily and had a peak. The Ilford was brilliant!! It was shot in the Cmena 8 camera, its first roll, and i love the photos. I am very glad that i let the specialists handle this film.
The other film was the troublesome Lomo X-pro slide film. I had a box of three roll and the previous two had been extremely disappointing. The film got great reviews and all I got was odd colours and lines. So my theory was my filwas damaged in the shipping (x-rays) this roll, the last in the box was my test roll. Was it really shipping damage or poor processing.
The answer???
poor processing. This roll was advertised as being able to be processed in C-41 and E-6. Lies. The specialist, processed it lovingly in the dipping process in E-6 chemicals. They explained to me that my issues may be 1. Incorrect chemicals, cross processing is all very nice but not is you want colour. True colours. And 2. The rollers at the other place may be damaging the film as it goes through. Both seem plausible as all the other films has a streak through the films. Different cameras and all have streaks. Hmm trouble is for me now, this place charges $8.95 for a medium format, but a whopping $14.95 for a 35mm.
I will certainly be sending my medium format to them in future, the films are worth $10 per roll anyway and so they deserve the dipping process and care that they get at vision images, but my 35mm for the most part (ILFORD SFX being an exception) are not worth than a few dollars. On the other hand I don't want all the films ruined by a streak.
Anyway below are some photos from both films processed at Vision Images
MONDAY was a different kettle of fish... Tim was flying a 1940 tiger moth and as i have a great soft spot for these old ladies, i was no going to miss this shooting opportunity. Alas my digital camera had other ideas.. The sandisk CF card in the camera lost it's directory structure and hence my photos went missing. Thank goodness for husbands. He retrieved them all except the movies of the plane taking off. Well, disappointing but cannot be helped. ANYWAY I had packed the Lubitel, the Diana F, the sprocket Rocket, and the TIM135.. phew!! All had half rolls that needed to be finished off..i finished all the rolls off except the Sprocket Rocket. The Diana F developed a film jamming issue at exposure 15 & 16, and I had to be forceful in making the film roll forwards. When i took the roll out, it was not sitting properly and looked fat so the tension had slackened off. Something to look at next roll. I'll see how this roll went first. I immediately put it in one of my handmade canisters. (yay for husbands again)
New film arrived along with the flash adapter for the Diana. It doesnt seem to fit, this camera may just be too old for such nonsense.
I may retire this camera,if the roll doesn't work out. TBA. She is more of a museum piece anyway.
TUESDAY
Tuesday saw me back a work (boo) but this meant i was close to Vision Images. Good, I'll get the films. I was really looking forwards to getting my Ilford SFX film back. I even found a park out the front. Yay!! The filwere waiting. So i grabbed them greedily and had a peak. The Ilford was brilliant!! It was shot in the Cmena 8 camera, its first roll, and i love the photos. I am very glad that i let the specialists handle this film.
The other film was the troublesome Lomo X-pro slide film. I had a box of three roll and the previous two had been extremely disappointing. The film got great reviews and all I got was odd colours and lines. So my theory was my filwas damaged in the shipping (x-rays) this roll, the last in the box was my test roll. Was it really shipping damage or poor processing.
The answer???
poor processing. This roll was advertised as being able to be processed in C-41 and E-6. Lies. The specialist, processed it lovingly in the dipping process in E-6 chemicals. They explained to me that my issues may be 1. Incorrect chemicals, cross processing is all very nice but not is you want colour. True colours. And 2. The rollers at the other place may be damaging the film as it goes through. Both seem plausible as all the other films has a streak through the films. Different cameras and all have streaks. Hmm trouble is for me now, this place charges $8.95 for a medium format, but a whopping $14.95 for a 35mm.
I will certainly be sending my medium format to them in future, the films are worth $10 per roll anyway and so they deserve the dipping process and care that they get at vision images, but my 35mm for the most part (ILFORD SFX being an exception) are not worth than a few dollars. On the other hand I don't want all the films ruined by a streak.
Anyway below are some photos from both films processed at Vision Images
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