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 having to [...]
Filed in Photography, Review
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Also tagged artpunk, Australia, Cameron Stephen, Digital Harinezumi, Digital Toy Camera, lo-fi, new, pinhole photography, polaroid, small camera, Superheadz, 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 [...]
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Also tagged analogue feel, cool, digital, Digital Harinezumi, grain, lo-fi, movies, new camera, 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 [...]
Filed in Miscellaneous, Photography, Video
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Also tagged 8mm film, analogue, bbf, blackbird fly, children, Fujica Single-8, happy, movie camera, retro, Superheadz, umbrella, 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 [...]
Filed in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Photography
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Also tagged bbf, book, bush fires, cover photo, interview, memories, Nic Nichols, photo albums, polaroid, priorities, published
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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 [...]
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Also tagged bbf, blackbird fly, camera cabaret, cameras, Japan, shop, Superheadz, Tokyo, Video, virtual tour
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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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Also tagged 35mm, 35mm TLR, analog, bbf, blackbird fly, film, 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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Also tagged bbf, camera, new, Prototype, Superheadz, 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, preview, Prototype, Superheadz, 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 rolls [...]
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 [...]
