I’ve mentioned it a few times already, but over on my tumblog, I’m running an ongoing series of pictures taken with the iPhone, while wandering up, down and around the parking garage or the various strip malls, or down in the strange, brand new, bright and shiny soccer/cricket/lacrosse fields near the creek and wooded area …
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Free-Lensing and Filthy Film
One great thing about interchangeable lens cameras is the ability to pop the lens off and hold it a bit away from the camera to add some interesting zoom-type effects or flip it around for some quick and dirty macro. Fun stuff. One horrible thing about the water in Irving is the strong variability in …
Load Film in Subdued Light?
I’m not sure how it happened, but the leader throw-away frames on this roll of Lomography Color Negative 100 came out pretty groovy…
Return of the Espio Returns (2): fully automated
As mentioned previously (here, here, and here), the Pentax Espio 35-70 AF Zoom is a fully automatic camera. I’ve cursed some of its automation in those earlier articles, but if you make some peace with it, accept (and understand its limitations) and just shoot, you can make some pictures with it. In fact, I think …
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Return of the Espio Returns (1): Kentmere 100 @ 320
If you recall, a couple of weeks ago, I experimented a bit with scratching the a couple of bits of paint off of the film canister to change the DX codes and fool the Espio into thinking it was shooting 320 speed film, rather than the 100 that the Kentmere was originally coded at. I …
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Converting Negatives the Easy Way!
While struggling to get through a backlog of negatives, and only due to the will and mercy of Allah azza wa jall, I remembered a discussion about color correction with the levels panel and decided to give it a try. After only 5 or 6 minutes, I realized that this a much better method than …
