Wednesday, April 29, 2009
This years Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (last Sunday) was less than optimal (for me) for a lot of reasons. The weather was shocking, we had power failures, my computer froze when the power finally came back on and I was suffering from the jet-lag feeling that comes from just finishing night shift and [...]
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Also tagged artpunk, Australia, Cameron Stephen, Digital Harinezumi, Digital Toy Camera, lo-fi, new, pinhole photography, polaroid, Powershovel, small camera, WPPD
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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 of the [...]
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Also tagged analogue feel, cool, digital, Digital Harinezumi, grain, lo-fi, movies, new camera, Powershovel, stills
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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 [...]
Filed in Miscellaneous, Photography, Video
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Also tagged 8mm film, analogue, bbf, blackbird fly, children, Fujica Single-8, happy, movie camera, Powershovel, retro, umbrella, Video
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After reading the review of the demekin camera on Nic’s blog (see previous post) I was inspired to unwrap the expired 110 film and load it onto my demekin and take it out on the weekend. Unfortunately the weather was pretty overcast most of the time and the film speed of 100 wasn’t great for [...]
My thanks to Nic Nichols and his excellent blog Four Corners Dark from where I gleaned much of this information. I’ve been a bit crook with the flu so having an informative resource like Four Corners Dark to read whilst locked away (to prevent me inflicting my bugs on anyone else) feeling muzzy headed is [...]
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Also tagged 110 film, Dave Bias, Demekin, Ikimono, Instant Film, news, Nic Nichols, polaroid, reviews, Save Polaroid, The Impossible Project
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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 [...]
Filed in DIY, Miscellaneous, Photography
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Also tagged 35mm, 8mm, Digital Harinezumi, DIY Camera, Japan, movie, Nic Nichols, Nick Dangerfield, Plastic, projects, SuperHeadz Plamodel DIY 35mm Camera, Tokyo, upcoming, Video
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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 interesting [...]
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Also tagged bbf, blackbird fly, camera cabaret, cameras, Japan, Powershovel, shop, Tokyo, Video, virtual tour
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
My mission is to try and shoot 360 photos in 14 days (well the little piece of paper said 7 days, but I let them know that I couldn’t possibly manage that in between family commitments and other essential things like going to work, sleeping and eating) I have already taken two rolls worth of [...]
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 [...]
Filed in Review, Video
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Also tagged 35mm, 35mm TLR, analog, bbf, blackbird fly, film, Powershovel, sprocket holes, square format, toycamera, Twin Lens Reflex, Video
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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Also tagged bbf, camera, new, Powershovel, Prototype, teaser, test, TLR, Twin Lens Reflex, Video
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Powershovel, the forward thinking Japanese company that involved a few lucky photographers (including yours truly) around the world in a photographic collaboration using the Holga 135BC (as mentioned in previous posts) has kindly invited me to trial a new toy camera they have in development, a plastic 35mm Twin Lens Reflex called the Blackbird, Fly. [...]
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Also tagged 35mm, bbf, blackbird fly, Plastic, Powershovel, preview, Prototype, teaser, TLR, toycamera, Twin Lens Reflex
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These shots actually came back at the start of the month, as promised, but I’ve been so distracted by other stuff that I haven’t gotten around to discussing them yet. If you click on any of the thumbnails a larger image should pop up. As mentioned in this previous post I was given 5 [...]
It sounds like a B grade epic theatre type movie about old testament life, but the 135 BC is a new Holga camera that takes 35mm film. The bc stands for (I think) bent corners which refers to the vignetting you get on your photos, probably produced from the curved corners mask inside the camera [...]
