Revolog Teslar 1 film

Surpirsing film. As stated in the film wins blog, its not a portrait film. I took her advice and stayed away from people subjects. As with the tecture film, my biggest issue with this film is cost. Its a bloody expensive film. Its 12 exposure, its €7.50 per roll plus the outrageous postage cost. ALSO to develop a 12 expoure film, it costs as much as a 36. Its ferrania. I know most people love ferrania but I don't. I border on loathing for ferrania. Its yellow. No matter what camera I use, what settings or light avaliable, its yellow and I have to change the white balance. ALL this aside. This is a damned fun film. You know you will get lightning so you try to find subjects that will suit the bolts. Of course you do not know where the bolts will be. And as with the exture film, the more under exposed the brighter the lightning bolts.

This worked surprisingly well as the bolts followed the web

St Marks. Soft focus with Canon lens on Nikon cam

Soft focus with canon len and Nikon cam

had to correct the horrible yellow cast. The bolts look cool here.

Vaby's near the station

Doesnt work as well without a building or object to attract focus. The bolts seem lost here

The Woolshed

Would I use this again. No. Unless they make a 36 or 24 exposure film, its too specialist. You need to shoot outside and avoid shots of people. It just looks weird, check out the Film Wins blog for her opinion. If you have a friend who loves lomo and fun films, make sure they try this.

From my diary..thoughts on the past few days

Lomo wise, my life has been a bit slow. Not from late of trying, I carry the Lomo fisheye with me in my bag. I like this camera but I don't love it. Maybe that will come with time.
Earlier this week a Leica copy arrived. This camera is in itself a thing of beauty. It really is a Zoki 1-E that has been dressed up in pretty clothing. She looks stunning. If she never takes a photo, I don't care. If I had a china cabinet I would keep this camera in there. She is dressing in brass with wood panelling. Someone but the Luftwaffe symbol on the top but of course this is just nonsense. No german officer had a gold coloured camera.
I am almost frightened to touch this.

Built in 1954, she was probably redressed in the 1970s or 80s. I would guess the 1980s. I took this Zorki to work and pulled her apart. I worked out how to load the test film (The four corners dark house film I discussed in the entry below) and put it all back together. I worked out the lens, but for the life of my I don't know the rest of the controls. **Sigh** I can see the shutter speed dial, but there is another two dials I don't know the use of.


Oh well I am sure David will be able to help me.

It is a range finder but the finder window is dim and dark. I will need lots of practise to make any useful image. :-(

At central recently I did some random Lomo with the fisheye, but probably got me in most of them so **Fail**
The Lomo fisheye II had a fixed shutter speed and a fixed aperture. F/8 and 1/100sec. Thats it. The only thing I can change is the ISO. And of course this required a film change.

Super sampler

I can express what a disappointment this camera is. I wanted it and I was thrilled when I got on in a camera mystery bag at christmas.

David has to show me how to work it, and I played with it, but I didn't bond at all. I was not comfortable using it and I revereted to me iPhone to do the same thing. So it sat with hald a film used in it. On my trip part 2, I took it with me to use the rest of the film and maybe sell the damned thing. Its fun if you are 6. Or can shoot children but I am not 6 and I can't shoot random children this modern society frowns upon such things.
So I struggled.

If you are an active person or photographs children or have dogs or cats who are active then this maybe bfor you.

SO imagine me releif when I send in the film.

And my disappointment when the fild came back. It was an ISO 400 film, it was used outsiode excep three shots which I am not counting in my assessment. The Agfa Vista plus film was a good batch, I have used it in the Cmena cameras with success. Sooooo

Why did I get results like this???



Sticky shutter. One shutter, the last one stays open too long. Piece of crap.



Poor qualty and as this is my second defective camera from Lomography.com, I am wondering if my loyalty should lie elsewhere. If I had bought it from the Lomo store here in Sydney then I may have been able to return it but Lomo in HK syas I have to return in within 14days. Hmmm
Mind you if you meed their 14day guideline, they are helpful and happy to pay for a courier to replace the camera with a new one. But couriers are a pain in the arse. You sit here all day and they come at 1600 but if you leave for the post office at 10, they come at 1003hrs.. AARGGHH hate couriers. hate hate hate. I am very lucky in that the PO acts as y business address and the ladies there know me and sign for me. YAY! Benefit of a small town.

I am wondering of the other cameras I have from them are defective and I will be stuck with them. I am sad and crawl back to my 1954-1975 soviet russian built cameras.







in other news I saw Lomo cameras in a shop in Newcastle!!

A break in Transimission

Lomography.com

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

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And LMK what you think

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

Follow Up

So Vision Image Lab finally opened. I had used ip the redbird film, walked around the blog a few times and even had to beg the cafe to use the toilet without buying anything.
I talked to the man about the Ilford film and asked why it was such an issue to get processed. He didn't know, he looked at it and said it was an ordinary B&W film. As I had finished the Chrome slide film in the Lubitel, I dropped that off too. I want to see if the issues I am having getting colour from this film, it X-ray or processing. Now this time it is being processed in e-6. IF I get green again, then it is X-ray damage. IF it works out fine, then it is processing issues. Time will tell. This roll is from the same box as the other two and had been treated in the same way. Even using the same camera. The only change is the processing from c-41 to E-6. Fingers crossed.
He said it would be $24.95, a little more expensive than the Campbelltown place but I get more services here. It is just a shame that they are so random in hours and so far from public transport. I did find the Metro 20 goes past the end of the street......

On the way to work, as I had missed the early train (See normal blog) I walked up to David Wilson Chemist to drop off the Redbird. Why did I not drop it at the place in waterloo?? At $10-$14 per film, I would like to stick with $5 for 'ordinary' film. I had asked the guy at the specialist place as to whether it needed special treatment or if it would be a problem for a photo lab, and he said no, it was an ordinary C-41 process so they would (Should) have no problem. OK... I get to pick it up tomorrow. I hope...
The Ilford will be ready on Monday, well friday at 1600, but Monday will do.

In the meantime, a few from my Hipstamatic wander of Newtown and waterloo



Hmm tired this sign makes sense. Now, not tired I have no idea what it means.




in other News the long await Diana F arrived. Yes not a copy or a clone but an real honest to goodness Diana from the 1960s or so, Happy? Damned straight.
I cleaned her up, inserted a film and then sticky taped her together. Yes this camera is true to its age, she doesn't stay in one piece. I was forearmed as my Lubitel doesn't stay in one piece either. LOL

Bummed

I had a morning at Cape Banks. I did many lovely HDR phtoos which can be seen on my flickr and I had taken my analogue bag,. As the scenery was so lovely, I took my fresh film from Lomography in Hongkong.  Mostly 200 and 400 film.  All colour. I wanted to capture the beauty around me in analogue. My trusty Lubitel 166B and Cmema and to get the 360 view, my Spinner 360.
I was very excited to drop off 4 Medium format films and the spinner film to my developer and even more excitedly went to pick them up today.
























Here I was crestfallen. My lovely photos were monochomatic. All green. Now I have used these cameras before and gotten nice colours with a ISO 100 Fujicolor film (Expired) and I had such high hopes for the Chrome 200.  I thought of many reasons but these films are the only ones I have received from overseas. All others film so far, I have received has come from Australia, and so not gone throught the stringent customs x-rays that these had.


See! It can do normal colours


I wonder is there would be another suggestion. I am open to ideas.

All I can say was the detail was captured faithfully, and IF I had been after lomo style photos I would be thrilled but I wanted colour.. :-(  Seriously bummed

I has in a happy bubbly mood this AM only to find this brought me down with a crash. Damn.

Cape Banks (digital photos at this stage)

As I finished work at 6am and had to start again at 1400, I did not have time to go home. SO I went to a favorite haunt, Cape Banks.

CApe Banks for people who do not know sydney, it in the south east, not far from La Perouse loop and it forms the entrance to Botany Bay.

I took my analogue bag and Lots of film. Cape Banks is the resting place of the SS Minmi, shipwrecked 8 May 1937. I do love shooting this wreck, but today, the tide came in too quickly for me to get to the wreck so I climbed the hill above it and shot her from above. Sunrise was disappointing this morning, almost colourless. :-( Always the way you have the cameras out and the sun wont play. :-(
For the record I had my Canon 7D for HDR, Cmena 8M (Redbird film)and Cmena 8 (B&W) film, Spinner (Lomo film) Sprocket (Unknown film) Tim135 (Happy film) and Lubitel 166B (which had to begin with Lomo ISO400 film.).


Some fishermen had climbed up the cliff behind me and so I watched them for a while, shooting the waves crashing against our position. I used up the Lubital roll (Lomo ISO 400)and then a second one (Lomo Chrome 200), changing as quickly as I could in the sea spray. I missed a frame on one roll and the next roll had frame 6 exposed as the back fell open. I was glad for the tape in my bag and I repaired the camera and soldiered on.

The spinner used a roll, and as I had not written down what film was in it, I was surprised that it had an ISO 800 in it. DAMN my photos will be overexposed. I keep better notes now....Spinner re-loaded with Fujicolor Superia ISO 100, and so I will have to use the rest of the roll in bright sun. Hmm WIll need to remember to keep the camera on cloud setting.

I headed back towards the car, then as a spur of the moment thing headed up to the old cemetery. Called the Coast Cemetery or Prince Henry Hospital Cemetery it was used from 1881 for the small pox outbreak. The infectious decease hospital being located here at Little Bay as it was far enough away from the city to quarantine the sick and dying. Eventually this little hospital house Typhoid, Bubonic plague and leprosy victims. Anyone dying of one of these diseases was interred here no matter where they died. Its a shame that most headstone have not survived, being close to the coast and also as it is so isolated, it gets vandalized. :-( Poeple here may not have even had a headstone. The stones are scattered and there is no order here. No neat rows. I wonder if these people still have any family still living. There was a grave of a 5 year old child. :-(
I didn't dwell here, I need to return on a less sticky day.

Onwards to the cliffs again. Here at Little Bay, I took out the Sprocket Rocket. I dunno what film is in this camera, but I am determinded to get at least one usable photo out of this camera. TIM135 came out to play as well but after doing a lot of shooting, I realized that I had left him on cloudy, so another over exposed roll. I have not used a whole roll from this camera yet. These 36 exposures seem to just keep going and going. It was here that I sat to update my film notes. I ventured further north towards the golf course but the heat and hunger were gnawing at me.. so I gave up and headed home.



I never did find the access to the gun shelter above me at the Westpac Chopper hanger. Something else to do next time.
Finding my car where I left it.. (WIN!) I got to the entrance to the Golf course, when a sign with a castle distracted me.. I turned left instead of right... and ended up at the La Perouse loop. The most southern point for the Sydney Trams, this was a balloon loop that was always busy. Now just tourists and not many. The castle was the Barracks tower sitting in the centre of the modern day loop.
Took a few shots, Saw the Alexander Spirit in port at Kurnell, but she was too far away for my film friends (Not having the Canon 10QS with me) SO I only took Digital.

Finally I was driven to the airport's fast food outlet, where I got supplies and headed to the lookout near the Tower. Here I shot with film and analogue, and then tried to assist a guy move his ford, which he had managed to stick on a hill in the sand. It was stuck and even with 4 adults, we could not shift her. No one had a strap, so he was stuck and had to wait for the NRMA. By this time, fatigue had caught up and I headed for work.


Showered and dressed, I slept for 2 hours before starting my shift. I felt much better for the shower I can tell you. My nose is red, my arms mildly burnt but I shot a bit of film and feel good about the trip. NO matter how many times I go to Cape Banks I always discover new things to shoot and explore.