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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
It’s been a busy year and it’s not over yet. Coming up in September is something I’ve been looking forward to for oh, 2 years now, since the last one! The Ballarat International Foto Biennale is about to kick off and anyone who is even vaguely interested in Photography would find more than enough to [...]
This post is not about photography or toy cameras per se, but about Melbourne at night this Winter. I went to the excellent Dali – Liquid Desires exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria late night and afterwards wandered around with my BBF attached to a tripod, shutter set on “B” for some night exposures. [...]
Apologies for a general lack of content and updates. Dealing with a busy work environment (thank you Swine Flu!) and family life has left me with less time and energy than I normally would have. I am still taking photos when I can, of course. Thanks to a contact on flickr who pointed me to [...]
Woot! Double bonus for me (well, triple if you count my coming off nightshift yesterday morning) not only is it World Pinhole Day, my second equal favourite photography day of the year next to World Toy Camera Day, but the Digital Harinezumi from Superheadz arrived from Japan on Friday! More on both of these things [...]
This post shows a video which was edited from a digital transfer from some good old fashioned analogue 8mm film. Taken with a Fuji Single-8 movie camera; no sound, 16 frames per second, fixed focus, point and shoot – probably the movie camera equivalent of a ‘toy camera’ with wonderful artifacts, colour and retro look [...]
Also filed in Photography, Video
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Tagged 8mm film, analogue, bbf, blackbird fly, children, Fujica Single-8, happy, movie camera, Powershovel, retro, Superheadz, umbrella, Video
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Just a quick post, as I’m working a late-early turnover and am quite frankly, stuffed and must hit the sack… thanks to my new tumblr feed, I have read some rather cool and groovy details about the Digital Harinezumi camera on Nic Nichols site. He has been working hard to keep us informed with all [...]
Well, my entries here have been sparse lately, as I have been caught up doing lots of other fun stuff which I will talk about over the course of the next few posts. I have been taking lots of photos with the blackbird,fly as well as capturing my photographic excursions on good old fashioned 8mm [...]
Also filed in DIY, Photography
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Tagged 35mm, 8mm, Digital Harinezumi, DIY Camera, Japan, movie, Nic Nichols, Nick Dangerfield, Plastic, projects, Superheadz, SuperHeadz Plamodel DIY 35mm Camera, Tokyo, upcoming, Video
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Monday, February 16, 2009
T he last few weeks have been extremely hot and dry with high winds, culminating in the worst bushfires Australia has seen in recorded history on Saturday the 7th (now being called “Black Saturday”) where the temperature reached over 46º C and many fires broke out, involving vast swathes of the State and in some [...]
Also filed in Philosophy, Photography
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Tagged bbf, book, bush fires, cover photo, interview, memories, Nic Nichols, photo albums, polaroid, Powershovel, priorities, published
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A s far as integral ‘instant’ film is concerned it seems there is hope still for the Polaroid fanatics amongst us, myself included. hats off to Florian Kapps, Lexi (even though I can’t see him in the Team, I’m sure he is working extremely hard behind the scenes) and the rest of the team in [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
So you’ve got yourself a new BBF, or you’ve loaded 35mm into your Medium Format Toy Camera after I showed you how (or not, *heh*) or you may have bought a 35mm back for your Diana + camera or for your Holga. You have finished your first roll of film that you opted (in the [...]
Also filed in DIY, Photography, Video
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Tagged 35mm, analogue photography, film, help, how-to, negatives, scanner, scanning, scanning film, scanning sprockets, sprocket holes, visual guide
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
B etwixt Christmas Day & New Years Day there exists (for me) a kind of limbo, a miasma of half asleep apathy and inertia. It could be the effects of all the food and drink, not to mention the mad running around we have done, or perhaps the residual effects of the recent night shifts [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
Well I’m glad someone thinks I have some influence, I must show my wife an email I just received. All jokes aside, though, given my love of animals and photography I’ll share it with you, because it’s always nice (especially for the amateur photographers among us) to know you can have a chance of actually [...]
W ell, today is the first day of the last month of the calendar year. It’s been a busy year here at theplasticlens, with one exhibition, developing B&W film for the first time in donkey’s years and let’s not forget the arrival of the new blackbird,fly camera from Superheadz/Powershovel in Japan. In other exciting happenings [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
A fter a hectic and busy time juggling work and various end-of-year things (my children’s school fete, end-of-year concerts, catch-ups and other socially oriented activities) I realised I had neglected the old blog. Here is something I have been meaning to put together and upload for a while; a short visit to my house to [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Y esterday (November 12th) my pinhole rose photo was published in the extratech section of the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne. It’s good to see that in these days of megapixel digital photography the origins of photography and image making (the Camera Obscura) still get some mention (even if it is under the title ‘strange [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
T his post is for my readers in New York, New York (or near New York or planning on visiting New York) who might be interested in the blackbird,fly camera. I received an email from a nice person named Amy, who asked me to pop in a plug for the International Center of Photography Museum [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I n Tokyo there lives a very generous man named Susuma Kohda, who also happens to be a very talented photographer. This morning an Australia Post vehicle delivered a package to my door. Inside were two magazines kindly sent to me by Susumu, one was the latest edition of Snap! where more of my images [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Keep mucking up with the database and WordPress. I think I’m getting there gradually, but it is a damn frustrating and laborious process. As an IT person I make a great ED nurse… I think a combination of shift work, family and managing a couple of websites has taxed my brain too much. After another [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Regular visitors to the plastic lens may have noticed some changes lately. It’s a long story, but basically the php script running the ‘front end’ (the photos part) was a bit naughty and became unmanageable once I reached a certain number of images, causing problems with the server, in some cases resulting in the site [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
For those who have been trying to access the site and been getting a “server not responding” message (as I have for the last few hours) – my apologies. I have requested some sort of explanation from my host for this and other buggy behaviour I’ve been experiencing lately. Back to business. The bbf website [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
I just love Superheadz. Not only because they feature my youngest daughter on the opening banner page for their Magical Camera Tour 2008! as seen at left, but for the whole feeling of verve and fun that pervades the whole site, from the colourful graphics and their enthusiastic approach to life, the universe and everything [...]
No connection/service along the Stuart Hwy north up to Tennant Creek from Alice, no connection in Tennant Creek. Heading further North, same story. Optus cellular service only seems to cover the major townships. I’m not expecting service in Mataranka either. The wife’s loving the lack of connection meaning my total attention for her (except when [...]
The Unsensored08 exhibition was reviewed on the Melbourne Age EG (entertainment guide) last Friday. I love the quote “even plastic toy cameras” For a look at (a scan courtesy of Jodes) the review, please follow this link: eg review of Unsensored08 The exhibition finished this Wednesday, so if you haven’t seen it and are in [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Took the kids around Uluru today. By around I mean a base walk around the whole of this largest of all monoliths in the world. For the curious, see if you can find Uluru on Google Earth to get an idea of what I’m talking about. We’ve all seen the postcards or tourist shots, but [...]
…and then there’s travel with your kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love them very much, BUT.. I am sitting in the hired Maui we have to travel around the Northern Territory for the next few days. Already I have had to defuse WW III in the back of the van a couple of times [...]
At 0530HRS the alarm went. We dragged ourselves out of bed and tried to wake up, grabbing some breakfast and organising the kids so we could catch the airport bus (which was late, leaving us standing in the early Melbourne chill wondering if we had been forgotten & if we should catch a taxi instead) [...]
A flickr friend of mine and fellow toy camera fan who lives in Japan – Susumu Kohda (Tokiocityphotos on flickr), noticed some of my photos in a Japanese magazine called Snap! and sent me 3 images from it today. I was excited to see photographs of my dog, daughter (and friends), chicken, trees near our [...]
Part two isn’t half as entertaining as part one, primarily because it only has boring old me in it and not the kids. This was later in the afternoon, after we had been to the park and I had picked up my Holgamods Pinhole slide to do some still life photography of tomatoes. Shown is [...]
Well, the day after WPPD (worldwide pinhole photography day) Randy Smith’s original Pinholga camera prototype arrived in the post, and a nice piece of Holga modification it is too! Having the pinhole plate secured by a screw in filter holder (Kodak Series V type known to Diana users who like to use filters on their [...]
April 27th 2008 was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (in case you hadn’t gotten the hint after me banging on about it for a while now) We walked up the street in the afternoon, it was chilly, cloudy, threatening to rain but with short (very short) moments of sunshine. The whole family (including the dog) helped [...]
Any time now the first contributions to the communal pool for World Polaroid Week at flickr will start appearing. I’m not sure how many more of these we will be able to have. If you can, why don’t you join in?April 26 – well, the week is officially over in the pool (even though I [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A few queries have come through my inbox over the last couple of years and I’ve seen quite a few discussions regarding the differences between Diana and Holga toy cameras and which is better. Let me state right now that value judgements like ‘better’ really are subjective markers and what is good for one person [...]
Yesterday I had a pleasant surprise. I had entered a couple of my toycamera photographs into a local exhibition; part of the PAVE festival (Performing & Visual Arts in Emerald) on the urging of my wife to participate. Unfortunately I could only attend the (one day) exhibition later on in the day, as my shifts [...]
OK! Seeing as I lost most of my old posts it is time to start again and repost the more intelligible or entertaining ones (at least as I see them) – also I can say thank heavens for rss feeds, in this case bloglines. Being as narcissistic as all get out, I had this blog [...]
In case anyone is confused as to why the blog suddenly jumped back more than a year, the explanation is simple. I stuffed up! Something certainly stuffed up when I was upgrading WordPress to version 2.5 anyway. I have managed to restore my database to a backup made in february 2007, but later backup restorations [...]
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Im at work and cant spend too much time entering much, but thought I would grab a quick quiet moment to cut and paste an interview sent to me by a local newspaper reporter in relation to a joint toy camera exhibition coming up later this month (Oct 2007) called The Plastic Photo Show – [...]
Just a quick little post, as it’s late, I really should go to bed and I’ve been wrestling with the quirky behaviour of the photoblog side of the site. I picked up three of my photographs from the framers today for an upcoming toy camera and pinhole exhibition here in Melbourne at the Kerala gallery. [...]
I don’t want to sound too negative in this post (ok, sorry, very lame joke) but what is it about the local labs around me that they can’t be bothered to even try and stock 120 negative sleeves/pages. Does anyone else have this problem? More and more lately I notice my negatives are getting damaged [...]
