Month: January 2014
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Ramblings from a fevered mind
Why do we call it getting over a cold? Why not around, or past, or through? —— Why is science fiction obsessed with the video phone? I just finished a good novel by an award-winning author in which every communication scene involved a video phone. The protagonist had a hand held version. Calls could be […]
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Week 48 – P6*6
This week’s camera is something very different. The P6*6 is a 3D printed pinhole camera by Todd Schlemm. He sells it as a kit, or you can download the designs and print it yourself. It has a 0.3mm pinhole, a 50mm focal length, and uses 120 film to make 6×6 exposures. I purchased the kit. […]
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Draft posts
When I started this blog, it had no purpose. I was merely playing with Blogger. The earliest posts were ramblings and scribblings, small dispatches from my life. Soon it evolved. NfMH became a home for stories and anecdotes from work, a place to express the joys and frustrations of life in EMS. I enjoyed writing […]
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ONDU Pocket Pinhole – week 47 results
My first impression of the ONDU Pocket Pinhole was that it’s beautiful. Finely crafted wood just has a look that no modern digital camera will ever achieve. It’s also simple. The shutter is a pivoting bar which covers the pinhole and his held closed by a powerful magnet. The wooden film advance and rewind knobs […]
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Week 47 – ONDU Pocket Pinhole
Crowd-financed by Kickstarter and custom made in Slovenia, the ONDU Pocket Pinhole is the smallest of a line of beautifully crafted wooden pinhole cameras. It features an f=125 pinhole and uses any standard 35mm film. I’ve loaded Ilford FP4 for my first roll. The original Kickstarter production run has sold out, but the are […]
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Kodak Tourist – week 46 results
I find myself returning to the Tourist on a regular basis. Despite its fixed focus and limited settings, it is a joy to shoot. The shutter release is located on the side of the folding bed. When depressed, the mechanism can be seen through the viewfinder, removing any doubt as to whether the shutter has […]
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Week 46 – Kodak Tourist
Introduced in 1951, the Tourist was the last of Kodak's folding models. It uses medium format 620 film to produce 8 big 6×9 cm exposures. Tourists were available with a number of different lens/shutter combinations; mine is a lower end model with a fixed-focus Kodet lens in a single speed shutter. Shutter modes include (I)nstant, […]
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Argus C3 – week 45 results
The Argus C3 earned the nickname “the brick” with its styling and weight. While I cannot disagree, I find that it has the ergonomics of a brick as well. Actually, that’s unfair to the brick. Bricks are perfectly shaped for their purpose. The C3 applies the ergonomics of masonry to photography and is a poorer […]
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Christmas in . . . January?
Yesterday the mailman brought me two packages which both serve to highlight the wonders of film photography in the Internet age. On the right is my ONDU 35mm pinhole camera. Funded by Kickstarter and produced in Slovenia, it's a simple wooden thing of beauty. Initial reports from other ONDU owners have been favorable, and I […]
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Week 45 – Argus C3
Introduced in 1939, the Argus C3 was arguably the first affordable 35mm rangefinder. Its metal and Bakelite body featured separate RF and viewfinder windows, shutter speeds to 1/300, and interchangeable lenses. Known as ‘the Brick’ for both its shape and weight, it would continue in production until 1966. My example was a $3.33 eBay […]
Notes from Mosquito Hill 