I think I recognize those buildings from my old days with Microsoft Flight Simulator!

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Originally posted by ednothing:

... but do they have Tang?

FRESH MEAT

Pizzadelic restaurant, Old Montréal, April 30 2007. Taken with one of ednothing's many unusual film cameras.



mrs. nothing: "kill meeeeee...."

Hah! That's the look I get when I'm doing something wrong.

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:
mrs. nothing: "kill meeeeee...."

"You told me he wasn't really crazy. He's still got bits of Margaret Atwood on his chin!"

Told you I'd be back.

I like the ectoplasmic look of the Nothing's portrait.

It does appear that Ed is about the be utterly destroyed.



Found this fellow Tampanian on flickr today. She has a series of shots taken with a toy camera like this,

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these "quad shots" are from my new lomo actionsampler toy camera. four sequential images, shot onto one negative. these (and the b&w's from my akira toy camera) are scanned as shot. completely unretouched in photoshop. ...read up on it: "Shutter speed: 1/100 second Exposure intervals: 0.22 seconds per frame and 0.66 seconds in total for four frames in a sequence on each negative."

Funny pic from her professional stuff.

Yeah, it's this camera: http://shop.lomography.com/actionsampler/

I don't recommend buying anything direct from Lomo. They tend to be overpriced.

edit: I just went through her stream (interesting stuff) and I see she picked hers up for $2 at a thrift store.

Goddamn, but I hate Lomo.

Here's my first thing against it:

It was started by marketing students.

Second:

Personal opinion, with a few facts, on lomography.

Link to letter sent to someone else selling Lomo cameras.

Lomography is using photographs as a means to an end, the end being fat profits and hipster cred. It's about group mentality, "in" mentality, and, basically, money.

My photomedia lecturer, who's quite cool, was talking about them in class.

"Lomography's motto is...is..."

Me: "Send money?"

She laughed.

There's more personal reason that came about after her finishing spiel on lomography afterwards, too.

Yeah I feel pretty much the same about it. Although I do use a LC-A (used, bought off ebay from some guy in Russia) and a Holga (new, but not from the Lomo site). I missed out on the original wave of popularity/cult status. I think I bought mine in 2004.

Anyways, the way it's hyped on the Lomo site almost makes me embarassed to use it. I feel like some scenester shithead whenever I take it out.

I'm also tired of seeing the same old cross-processed, expired film combination on flickr.

Nevertheless, I do like the Red Mist Of Doom surrounding your wife in that shot.

I ♥ slide film.

i really should shoot my colour work on slide film as well. But the low ISO numbers scare me off a bit, oh and i still don't have a decent scanner nor a slide projecter.

Great shots, as usual, by the way!

This was Fuji 200 something or other. These aren't scanned by the way. I figured out a technique where I'm actually photographing (with a digital camera) what I see through one of those little slide viewers. They're a little off as to what they actually look like, but good enough to post on the internet. This is only the second roll of slide film I've ever shot on.

Hmm, I guess there isn't high ISO or black and white slide film is there?

There used to be an ISO 200 black & white slide film called Scala; Agfa made it. There were only three or four labs on earth with processors for it. Only one place I know of, now, in Colorado.

I have two expired rolls of the stuff, somewhere. Must be ten years old.

I remember that. Now, why not just reverse negatives digitally? (Says I, with 4000 slides to digitize some rainy day....)
Does any of the other elders here remember that Fuji film with a strong blue colour (As in perfect blue skys + impressionist blue shadows)? I think it was a 200 ASA as well, but I would always push it to the limits, which enhanced the blue even more.

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:
There used to be an ISO 200 black & white slide film called Scala; Agfa made it. There were only three or four labs on earth with processors for it. Only one place I know of, now, in Colorado.

I have two expired rolls of the stuff, somewhere. Must be ten years old.

Processing your own slide film isn't too difficult is it? I used it in the late 70s to document the condition of pipeline insulation and developed the slides in one of those shaker thingys. I don't remember the exact process (I don't remember much of anything from the 70s). I do remember it wasn't very expensive. Those were color slides. Would b&w be more involved? I am and was a dunce re photogramphy. I think if I could do it, anyone could.