Saturday, August 14, 2010
One Saturday a group of friends with a common passion for analogue photography got together to convert Paul’s kitchen into a darkroom for the afternoon for the purposes of making some traditional photographic ‘wet’ prints. Those of us not experienced in this art (Lea, Sophie & I) watched & learnt from our friends Paul & [...]
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Tagged analogue photography, Australia, D.I.Y., darkroom, friends, fun, Melbourne, Melbourne Photography, Print Making, Traditional Photography, www.theplasticlens.com
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Mark Skorj is an ex-pat Australian living and working in Tokyo. I have been fortunate to know him for many years through our mutual love of toy cameras, but he is also a great Polaroid photographer. We mainly interact online from time to time but I remember one memorable day we wandered around Melbourne (with [...]
For the 2010 World Pinhole Photography Day, I decided to make a new pinhole camera, similar to the pinhole blender cameras that merge several pinhole images onto one long exposure. In 2007 at the Daylesford Foto Biennale, I first saw some amazing pinhole images taken by an Australian photographer Steph Tout – Steph Tout Photography [...]
A while back I tried to explain how to get sprockets holes from your toy camera negatives scanned to a digital file correctly. My text and images where not entirely the best method to explain it so now finally I have produced a long overdue tutorial on how to use your scanner software to scan [...]
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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. [...]
OK, here are my first takes with the super cool & groovy Digital Harinezumi from Superheadz in Japan, the footage here was captured in very poor light conditions, mainly due to: 1. The first shots being shot at night in subdued lighting (as I was on night shift at the time) & 2. the rest [...]
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Tagged analogue feel, cool, digital, Digital Harinezumi, grain, lo-fi, movies, new camera, Powershovel, stills, Superheadz
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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 [...]
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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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I t’s been a while since i updated the words part of the site, sorry. Things have been a bit busy & weird around here (something not that unusual) but I hope to be back to updating the site with interesting new material, cameras, reviews (including some cool Superheadz cameras) and videos of…stuff (It’s a [...]
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Tagged 2008, Holga, pinhole, pinhole day, polaroid, polaroid transfer, rose, Video, world pinhole day, WPPD
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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 [...]
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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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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
A fter a few enquiries and the fact that I have been meaning to put together and upload this for a while but just never got around to it, here is an otherwise boring (insomniacs if you need a cure look here) visual tutorial on how to load film into your BBF (blackbird,fly) camera, I [...]
I received my last order from the Lomographic Society on Friday; a 35mm back for the Diana + cameras, with most of the English instructions missing due to a misprint. I had also ordered a Diana + Edelweiss edition that was broken (lens assembly completely detached from the body, dangling by the wires for the [...]
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 [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
After posting my BBF video, (which is hosted on Vimeo), a fellow named Gianfranco Chicco made a comment on it there. He is on sabbatical in Tokyo and has visited Powershovel’s Camera Cabaret recently. Camera Cabaret is the Powershovel/Superheadz Ina Babylon shop in Shibuya, Tokyo and looks (from Gianfranco’s video) to be chock full of [...]
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Tagged bbf, blackbird fly, camera cabaret, cameras, Japan, Powershovel, shop, Superheadz, Tokyo, Video, virtual tour
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
A friend of mine on flicker sent me a message, quite concerned that she had stuffed up her Diana + camera by putting on one of it’s accessory lenses the wrong way. She had put her fisheye lens on without aligning the white dots and was also finding it quite stiff when trying to remove [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sorry to keep banging on about the BBF blackbird,fly but according to Woopra (which I now have up and running thanks to my friend Philip putting the idea in my head to use it) the majority of visits to the words part of this site lately have arrived here because of referrals or searches regarding [...]
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Tagged 35mm, 35mm TLR, analog, bbf, blackbird fly, film, Powershovel, sprocket holes, square format, Superheadz, toycamera, Twin Lens Reflex, Video
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Below is a ‘teaser‘ video of a great new plastic camera that is in development by the company Powershovel, in Japan. I have mentioned Powershovel on this blog before, they are the driving force behind many great artistic projects that involve music, books and photography and behind the company Superheadz Ina Babylon who market all [...]
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Tagged bbf, camera, new, Powershovel, Prototype, Superheadz, teaser, test, TLR, Twin Lens Reflex, Video
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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 [...]
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 [...]
This little video was made with Phil in mind, as he expressed in interest in how to do this (he actually offered to bear my children for this info, but personally, however tempting, I dont think it would work!) If anyone else can glean some useful hints from it (and can be patient enough to [...]
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 [...]
Here is a fairly straight forward tutorial video showing how to simply adapt a toy camera (a Diana + in this case) that usually takes 120 (medium format) film to take 35mm film. Even though I’m using 35mm in my Diana + here, this should be achievable in just about any medium format toy camera [...]
Monday, February 12, 2007
Toycamera Lightseal from artpunk on Vimeo. I would just like to note that Light Leaks (magazine) showcased South Australian plastic photographer Don Brice (mentioned previously here) in their last issue. Now to this post. I have put together a little video podcast, it’s a bit dry & not that exciting but I’m just feeling my [...]
