photo from week 13 - Kyocera Samurai

Parkhill with fogging
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

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photo from week 13 - Kyocera Samurai

Cheesegrater 3 frames with fogging
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ruined film!

I took the Samurai film to the local minilab this morning, and they (or their machine) screwed it up fine style. I was handed a wet, part developed, part fogged, unfixed, unbleached film, together with my money back! (and an apology). Something jammed in the machine and they had to fish it out part way through.

I took it home and fixed it in B&W fixer, and there may be some interesting unplanned nuggets to scan, but basically it's wrecked!
It was bound to happen sooner or later, luckily there was nothing too precious on the film, and at least there was enough to see that the camera works OK.
I might shoot my first black and white film with the intention of processing it myself next week...

Week 13 - Samurai 3.0

Samurai 3.0
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

This strange looking camera, despite resembling a fairly recent camcorder, is in fact a 35mm half-frame SLR. It was made around 1988 and has a 3x zoom and fully automatic focus and exposure. I've loaded it with a Kodak Color Plus ISO 200 film, and plan to make some contact sheet joiners.

photo from week 12 - Disderi Robot Style 3 lens camera

demolition (square crop)
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

I thought this one was improved by a square crop, to echo the repeating square windows of the subject.

photo from week 12 - Disderi Robot Style 3 lens camera

crying queen
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

photo from week 12 - Disderi Robot Style 3 lens camera

man in black
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

week 11.5!

double exposure reflected self-portrait with metal giraffe and Kodak 35 camera
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

This film started off in the Kodak 35, than after about 26 exposures I rewound it and loased it into the novelty Robot camera. This is never an exact science, and I'm often pleasantly surprised by the little accidents that result. My reflected self portrait has become enmeshed with a metal giraffe.

photo from week 11 - Kodak 35

airport walkway
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

I went to a course in a bland modern hotel at Manchester Airport, this was taken in one of the overhead covered walkways that link the various buildings.

photo from week 11 - Kodak 35

reflected self portrait with Kodak 35 camera
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

This reflection was in the mirrored windows of an office building.

photo from week 11 - Kodak 35

cobbled street
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

photo from week 11 - Kodak 35

St Paul's Place
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

These are some of the new building in St Paul's Place in Sheffield City Centre, although the film was a colour one, I felt that black and white worked better for this image.

Week 12 - Disderi Robot Style 3 Lens Camera

Last week I took a couple of dozen photos with the Kodak 35. I've now moved the film into this novelty 3 lens "Robot" camera, continuing my theme of trying to use a camera with the same number of lenses as the current month number. The 2 lens stereo camera for February still has the film I started in week 9, so there are no photos from that one yet.

This is a simple point and shoot camera, so needs good daylight, it was looking good yesterday, but gloomy and wet today...

Week 11 - Kodak 35

Kodak 35
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

This was the first mass produced 35mm camera from Kodak. It was introduced in the late 1930s to rival the Argus range (see week 8). This is one of the post-war models with a 51mm f4.5 Anastigmat lens, this lens was renamed the Anaston in 1947, so this example must be earlier than that.
I'll put one of the ISO 200 Kodak films that came last week in it, hope they are OK!

photo from week 10 - Gelto D-III

Sheffield Wheel B&W
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

photo from week 10 - Gelto D-III

Parkhill
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

photos from week 10 - Gelto D-III

 

The focus problem is well demonstrated here by the distortion of the wheel.

photo from week 10 - Gelto D-III

Sheffield Wheel and Town Hall
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony
This camera takes 127 rollfilm, I re-spooled some 35mm colour negative film into a 127 backing paper. I am puzzled by the out of focus centres, with sharp peripheries, I would have expected the opposite from a low quality lens (though I think this lens is reasonable one anyway). It could be due to the film bulging away from a flat plane, but I'm not convinced. I scanned the negatives to include the sprocket holes, as the original frame size is 3cm x 4cm, so the whole width of the 35mm film is exposed, including the spaces between the perforations.

New Arrival

These arrived today via Ebay. I paid £5 + £2 p&p for 10 rolls of film (in date) and a Canon Z155 camera. I'd have been happy to get the films at 70p each (cheaper than Poundland!), so the camera, which seems to work, is a bonus. I wouldn't normally go near this type of very recent auto-everything camera, but I'm tempted to give it a try sometime.