Rollei Digibase CN-200 (3) – at Southfork Ranch

One thing I forgot to mention about the Vintage thing: it was held at Southfork Ranch, the setting for much of the Dallas TV show way back when.

Back in the 70s and 80s, Southfork Ranch was out in the middle of nowhere, and you could fly over miles of open countryside in a helicopter, as they did for parts of the intro, and you might’ve even seen a combine out there.

But Climate Change and suburban/exurban creep ended all that long ago, and even the flyovers for the early 2010s (and ongoing?) remake were shot somewhere else, somewhere far, far away: tract homes are easily visible from the balconies of the house in virtually every direction. Continue reading “Rollei Digibase CN-200 (3) – at Southfork Ranch”

Rollei Digibase CN-200 (2) – at the Vintage Market Days

A month or so ago, Hana, her sister, and I went to the Vintage Market Days. It wasn’t quite what I expected, and there was a noticeable demographic shift when the three of us (two Bengali ladies and a white male) entered: the number of non-white people increased by roughly 200%; the number of males increased similarly, but maybe by only 25% or so. Continue reading “Rollei Digibase CN-200 (2) – at the Vintage Market Days”

Worldwide Photo Walk 2015

Yesterday midmorning found me in the West End for the 2015 edition of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk.

This year, I joined a group led by Brian Anderson, with special guest Ted Forbes* of The Art of Photography podcast/youtube fame. I’ve been watching Ted’s podcast for many years, now, so for me it was sorta like meeting an old friend and it was nice to wander around with him and others.

We walked a big loop around the West End and the south part of downtown Dallas, then went for lunch at Sonny Bryan’s (where it’s very difficult to find something halal to eat: thankfully, there are some salads on the menu).

I took some great pictures on the walk, but after lunch realized that I had once again mis-loaded the FG and so I hadn’t really taken a single picture. There used to be this emoji that appeared when you typed in :rant: on some forums…

angry

Fortunately, I also brought along the Lomo LC-A.

Unfortunately, a screw that had been rattling around in the top half since I bought it found its way into the bottom part and jammed up the winder part. For the past week or so, I’ve had to wind it by twisting the little bit at the bottom, and yesterday after about 8 winds, it started just spinning past the stop and never resetting the shutter.

Fortunately, there’s a user service guide readily available. It’s for the LC-A+, the fancy new model, but most of the guts are still the same. I took the bottom off, and a little silver screw fell out… I think it might be one that holds the lens in place, so I’m going to have to do a bit more taking apart to see if I can find where it belongs and to tighten everything up.

Anyway.

The walk was loads of fun, and I had an opportunity to continue it in Deep Ellum, but passed due to my dismay, shame, and fury at having mis-loaded the film yet again, and this time at a time when it mattered a tiny bit more than usual.

Oh well.

I’m getting more comfortable shooting people in public, and I went the whole 3 hours without feeling panicky or very nervous: Alhamdulillah.

So it was a much more successful WWPW than previous years in some respects, and a deep failure in others, and it makes me want to get back involved with some photowalking: I’ve been on one since Hana and I got together. InshaAllah I’ll find some sort of outlet for this newfound desire to wander streets with a buddy or three and shoot.

More from this roll of HP5 soon.

*Apologies to Ted for the goofy expression I caught him with.

Capture One, iPhone image dates, and file formats Oh My!

I recently complained about Capture One’s inability to “see” the dates in jpegs from Hipstamatic. So this morning I started poking around a bit and found that it’s not just jpegs imported by Image Capture, but also png files (screenshots) imported by Image Capture and Lightroom, and anything sent from the camera roll to the mac via AirDrop.  Continue reading “Capture One, iPhone image dates, and file formats Oh My!”

Hipstamatic 300 and the .aae ‘bug’

So Hipstamatic leveraged Apple’s .aae xml files to include develop instructions for the ‘raw’ jpegs it produces. This is all well and good, as long as you’re looking at the iPhone and only at the iPhone, but just as with Snapseed before it, you have to jump through hoops to get the pictures onto your mac. Continue reading “Hipstamatic 300 and the .aae ‘bug’”