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Posted on June 30, 2013
I swore I’d use my film cameras loads. And I meant it.
The trouble is, well, I’m slack.
And I want instant results dammit!
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Raising Hell
Posted on June 23, 2012
We’ve had a few storms here over the last few weeks. Big arsed hairy Indian Ocean winter storms.
These are usually ok – the wind howls, the rain falls and then its gone. Except this time we had 2 of them back to back, the first with a sudden howling gale that knocked down fences and trees and damaged the roof and the second, a few days later, bringing 12 hours of violent wind and torrential rain. This, as you can imagine did not go well with the already damaged roof, and water came pouring in through one ceiling over of the windows in the back of the house. Bah!
loading film
Posted on January 29, 2012
I’ve had a bit of a time off shooting film of late.
Sure, I’ve taken the odd shot and used the Polaroid a little, but nothing major for months. And I really miss it.
Now my D300 is in the shop for repairs and I wont have it back for a while, I’ve got the time and inclination to shot a load of medium format again.
Hasselblad
Posted on March 26, 2011
It’s overdue – the shots from the ‘blad are here and I’m very happy with them 🙂
I’ve said this before, but there seems to be a lightness of touch that film has in the way it renders some light conditions that digital can’t reproduce, or at least I can’t reproduce it!
Piccies from a foreign land
Posted on September 17, 2010
I got my films from my trip to the UK back yesterday and they are awesome!
I love my Hasselblad, it produces amazing images – so clear and full of glorious colour and definition in a way that digital images somehow aren’t. The trouble is, scanning these amazing prints and showing them on here doesn’t show them how they are at all 😦
I tried scanning them at 600dpi, but the resulting images lack clarity, so I really need to do them at the full 1200 or higher – which means a scan time of more than 9 minutes per image – crappy scanner.
So, I need to buy a dedicated medium format negative scanner.
They cost AU$750
Add it to the list of stuff I ‘need’ 😦
Expensive hobby, this film lark. Looks like I might be getting familiar with home developing sooner rather than later!
Aaaaaanyhoo… I do have some initial scans to share – they’re pretty much all of my kids and family, but hey, its my blog, I can share if I like! I’ll probably redo these over the weekend – hopefully they will come out with a bit more ‘pop’
Oh, and I’ve done this on my work laptop which has a very bright screen, I don’t know if the colour/contrast on these pics is actually correct or not 😦
update
Posted on September 9, 2010
Well, whats been happening in the world of me?
My trip to England went well – the flight over was actually pretty painless, despite being sat next to a borderline Neanderthal on the plane from Perth to Singapore – he was laughing out loud to stuff on the entertainment system. I mean really out loud. Not good. When I asked him something, he spoke like he had experienced a very bad head injury – I don’t think he had though, he was just very odd.
Anyway – Singapore Airlines – 5 stars from me – good food, good aeroplanes and excellent service. Managed to sleep almost all the way to London too.
Went to collect my kids via my old local supermarket – I needed to buy jeans as for some reason, jeans in Australia are only available in one length to cater for all – so the legs are always 6foot too long, meaning I have to pay to have them taken up too. Its maddening. 2 pairs of jeans and some stripy coloured socks later (you can’t buy coloured socks here either) and I was at my kids front door. Its always so good to see them, they end up doing a little dance and their smiles blow away the travel fatigue in seconds.
We drove back to my parents house – was good to see them too – last time was when they were here for our wedding.
We had a nice week – the weather in England was shit though – what the hell happened to warm summers that I remember from when I was young? It barely made it to 20C all week and rained loads 😦 We did still get out to the park, take a trip to London to go the Natural History Museum (never go in the summer holidays – it was packed full of rude johnny foreigners who have never heard of waiting their turn) and spent a load of time with my family.
It was horrible to have to leave them again, but they were ok and missed their mum. I stopped off at Hotel Chocolat to get some goodies before flying home again.
miraculously, I didn’t get sick this time! I have a load of photos on film which are at the lab for developing right now – hopefully they’ll come back soon – I want to see how the Hasselblad did with taking photos of moving children 🙂
Holga and Hasselblad
Posted on July 22, 2010
So, as you are aware, I got my films back – I was especially looking forward to seeing the shots from the Hasselblad, given I paid a small fortune for it and am betting the farm that it’ll produce images that will stir my creative soul. I know, not too much pressure then.
First, the Holga, which never ceases to surprise and amaze
Next, the Hasselblad – early days with this beastie, only just got hold of a lightmeter so the early films were guesswork and counting back from Sunny 16..
I think it’s safe to say that the camera has done ok 🙂
Pretty happy with those so far. I have another 2 films I’m scanning and there are some interesting shots there too.
Can’t wait to get out again and take more shots now!
cameratime
Posted on July 1, 2010
previously (as they say on Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and others, before wasting 10 minutes of airtime on recapping seemingly the entire series to date) I mentioned a new camera.
Well, its not new. 1981 to be exact. But it’s new to me. And actually, given the concourse condition, it may as well be new. There’s not a mark on it anywhere.
So, what is it? Observant stalkers readers will know that its a Hasselblad 500 C/M
Maybe one of you will know what that is and probably no-one will actually care!
But hey, I’m a technology evangelist, so I’m going to damn well educate you, like it or not.
It’s a Swedish-made (no Austin Powers jokes please) medium format film camera. One of the very finest cameras from days gone by actually. It has a look down waist level viewfinder, no lightmeter – its totally manual – takes 12 shots of 6×6 medium format film (like the Holga) and is just amazing.
purdy, huh?
Actually, mine is in much better condition than this one – its totally unused.
So, watch this space for some pictures of a different kind.
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