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I have unintentionally misled you. The results shown for week 16 are the wrong photos. They are in fact from a Holga 135BC, but it was Beth's camera and not mine. I discovered the error when scanning the other rolls from that batch. Here are mine: First Aid Cache, Tuckerman's Ravine Tuckerman Ravine trail… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 16 – Addendum
The Holga 135BC is simply fun to shoot. My example has lost its focus guide so I've replaced it with simple Sharpie dots to indicate close-up, portrait, group, and landscape settings. Using the wide angle lens requires setting the focus at infinity and forgetting it, which makes shoot-from-the-hip street photography incredibly easy. The shutter has… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 16 results – Holga 135BC
The Minolta SRT200 was a 35mm single lens reflex camera introduced in 1975. It features a 1/1000 shutter. Mine has a 50mm f2 lens. The layout is fairly standard SLR with a knob near the winding lever for shutter speed and aperture controlled by a ring on the lens. It features a match needle meter… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 17 – Minolta SRT200
So the internet has decreed that today was Take Your Dog to Work Day. At first I thought it wouldn't work, then I reconsidered. Long stretches on the couch. Blasting across town, head out the open window, tongue lolling in the wind. Howling along with the siren. Yeah, Cricket might enjoy it too. 🙂 … Continue reading Take your dog to work
We've completed the Pdexposures $20 challenge. To recap the goal was to buy, load, shoot, and process for under $20. Beth and I both took a shot, and our initial quest is documented here. Part 1: Kodak Pony 135 My Pony 135 was manufactured sometime between 1950-1954. It's a lightweight Bakelite and plastic assembly with… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Diversion – Results
My first toy camera was this Holga 135BC. When I bought it I was enamored with the idea of the soft focus and vignetting, but I was not ready to jump into 120 film. The 135 uses 35mm film and has an internal mask to emulate the black corners of its larger cousin. … Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 16 – Holga 135BC
The helicopter crew turns the corner ahead of us in their blue jumpsuits. Their patient doesn't look too bad. She's awake, sitting up on their stretcher. I cannot see a heart monitor or any IVs, and I wonder what she did to warrant flying. We roll together into the Acute area of Big City Trauma… Continue reading Scenes from an ED
More light leaks!!! These particular leaks I understand. My 16MG has a hole in its back. It's the size and shape of a "red window" hole, but this camera isn't suposed to have one. I'm not sure why it is there. I've covered it with tape, but my first attempt was not fully light resistant.… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 15 results – Minolta 16MG
Light leaks!!! But not everywhere. I don't know if the cheap plastic of the camera flexes or if my roll was wound too loosely. Either way the Sabre 620 achieved a nice vintage look. In use the feel is not as solid or smooth as the Brownie Hawkeye which this camera emulates, but I did… Continue reading 52 Cameras Results – Week 14 – Sabre 620
Have I mentioned I love this camera? I'm not really sure why. It's not superlative in any way, yet I find it a pleasure to shoot. In the end that's what counts most. In addition to these examples, my new header image comes from this camera. Flame Dog is my copilot (and assistant) Landing I… Continue reading 52 Cameras – Week 13 results – Chinon CM7
Notes from Mosquito Hill 