Camera: Diana F+

Camera: Diana 151
Film: Fuji Provia 400 (X-Pro)

Well, those of Christian beliefs do say he is everywhere, which kind of freaks me out if I think about it too deeply, but this particular shining example of the saviour I found in the Dandenong Trash & Treasure sidewalk market one day. This is yet another shot taken with the cool Waist level Finder Holgamods Holga, Randy really does do a great job with his Holgas.

Camera: Holga 120N with Waist Level Viewfinder (modified by Holgamods)     Film: Fuji Pro 400H

Camera: Holga 120N with Waist Level Viewfinder (modified by Holgamods)     Film: Fuji Pro 400H

Drifting a long way away from plastic lenses with this shot. It is taken with my latest camera, a Polaroid 110A that has been converted to take 4″ x 5″ sheet film by a talented man named Dean Jones, who luckily for me I met a few years ago at a Sunwrae concert and who works just a suburb away from me. This is a marvelous hand-held coupled rangefinder that shoots large format! The negatives from this camera are just incredible, I love shooting with it. That little white dot at the far left border of the image (near some seats) is, on examination of the full size scan of this negative, very obviously a seagull. The detail above the carpark & MacDonalds sign at right clearly shows individual wires on the roof of the shops behind. I’ll be posting an entry about this camera shortly in the words part of the plastic lens.

Camera: Razzle Polaroid 110B 4×5 conversion
    Film: Kodak 400NC sheet film
Developed in a Jobo Rotary Tube Processer in Jobo (Tetanal) C-41 Press Kit. Scanned on a Epson V700 scanner.

This image of the bridge at Caribbean Gardens, Melbourne had some weird colour shifts which I have determined to be a combination: of slightly hotter than recommended developer & blix bath, scanner peculiarities and my monitor calibration. I would have uploaded a colour-corrected version but people seem to like this so I shall leave it be. I have since developed a different version from another roll of film I shot this day that seems to have more accurate colour rendition but this first shot certainly has generated a bit of interest on flickr.

Camera: Bronica SQ-A     Film: Fuji Pro 400H

Most people who have grown up or lived in Melbourne for any length of time would know the central Flinders Street Station. “I’ll meet you ‘Under The Clocks’ has been a favoured rendevous point for many generations. This is an extended exposure taken around twilight at Flinders St Station –
Camera:Bronica SQ-A    Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100 shot at f/8 – 8 sec exposure.

Camera: Diana 151 Film: Fuji Pro 400H

My brother gave me a box of old cameras, mainly old box-brownies, but in it was this cool box camera with the largest waist level finder I have seen in these kind of cameras ever.
It’s an Ensign Ful-Vue and what is more it takes 120 rolls nicely!
The settings are pretty simple and shutter speeds are ‘T’ (equivalent to ‘bulb’ setting on later cameras ie shutter open as long as you hold it down) & ‘I’ or instant (which in this case means 1/30th second)
When shooting my first roll, I had accidentally left the shutter on ‘T’ – Of course I didn’t realise my mistake until I had pulled the developed film out of the tank and examined it against the light. When using cameras such as this, with such limited options and controls, it is amazing how often I can make a basic mistake!
This shot is from the second roll of film, where I actually made sure I didn’t have the shutter set on ‘T’

Camera: Ensign Ful-Vue
Film: Ilford HP4 125

This photo is a detail of Ken Unsworth’s ‘Annulus of Stones’ (2007), a sculpture at the McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park in Melbourne’s South East.

Camera: Bronica SQ-A     Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100