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, Superheadz, umbrella
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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, SuperHeadz Plamodel DIY 35mm Camera, Tokyo, upcoming
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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 [...]
Filed in DIY, Photography, Video
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Also tagged 2008, Holga, pinhole, pinhole day, polaroid, polaroid transfer, rose, world pinhole day, WPPD
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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 [...]
Filed in Photography, Video
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Also tagged bbf, blackbird fly, camera cabaret, cameras, Japan, Powershovel, shop, Superheadz, Tokyo, 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 [...]
Filed in Review, Video
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Also tagged 35mm, 35mm TLR, analog, bbf, blackbird fly, film, Powershovel, sprocket holes, square format, Superheadz, toycamera, Twin Lens Reflex
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
In many ways this blog owes a lot to a nice person named Susan Burnstine, who takes dreamy etherial photography with her homemade cameras and has a great site outafocus as well as her professional photography site. In 2005 I got hold of one of her cameras, a little gem of a thing with the [...]
