(Note: first wold, leisure-related kvetching ahead—you have been warned.) I have no idea what went wrong with this roll of Porta 400, but here’s a short list of the issues I encountered: it jammed in the camera and ripped through a frame it coiled up along its length and width immediately upon removal from the …
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Porta 400 and the LensBaby
Some months ago—April, actually—before I went down the Raw Convertor rabbit hole, I burned a roll of Kodak Porta 400 testing out some of the toy/art/fun lenses in my stable. I loaded the film first, likely in late March or so, but forgot what was in the camera when I decided to test these lenses… …
Lens Baby Macro Fun, part 2
Happy Martin Luther King Day! May this day serve to remind us of 1) the power of the people to change living, working, economic, cultural, etc. conditions; 2) the right of the people to push back against those in power, the local/regional/national government, and any other entity or entities that cause the undesired state of …
Lens Baby Macro Fun, part 1
I was wondering what options I had for Macro, and remembered the screw-on filters I received with the Lens Baby…*
7/52-49 LensBaby Week!!!2!
Unlike the first LensBaby week for this 7/52, I started this one intending to use the LensBaby. And as you might notice, I got some somewhat better results (to my eye, anyway). I still wonder what I might be able to accomplish if I had the time and the leisure to really focus on photography: …
7/52-15 LensBaby Week!!!1!
So I was pondering a theme for the week, couldn’t come up with anything better, so I decided it would be LensBaby Week. Yay. The LensBaby is a sort of toy tilt-shift lens with a pronounced sweet-spot (area of acceptable focus) and distinctive blur to everything else. I have the Muse with the plastic optic (no …
365.282 it is (for Simon)
Truth be told, it’s a bit muggy for my taste, but whatever. And there was a neighbor or a friend of a neighbor that was out smoking, and that I didn’t notice until she started talking on the phone. I wonder if she wondered “what is that___ guy in 106 doing?” but bet she didn’t even look …
