Week 67 - Voigtlander Perkeo

Voigtlander Perkeo, originally uploaded by pho-Tony.

This is probably one of my all time favourite cameras, and also one of my best bargains. I paid £1 for it over 20 years ago when a local camera shop was clearing out old stock and selling lots of cameras for £1 each, the queue stretched down the street. This is one of the pre-war folding 127 cameras that I have a soft spot for, it takes 16 3x4cm exposures on a roll (sometimes known as 127 half-frame).
The camera can be pre-focused before opening, and had a full speed range Compur shutter, which still fires acurately even though it is nearly 80 years old, and was last used more than 20 years ago.
I've loaded it with my last roll of Efke B&W film, as it somehow wouldn't feel right to put colour film in this camera.

Amateur Photographer Magazine

Starting next month, I will be writing a regular monthly column for Amateur Photographer, a weekly magazine that has been going since 1884. In each column I will be talking about my experiences with one of my film cameras. In the May 21st issue, to introduce my first column, there will also be a two page feature about me and my project. I'm looking forward to this new challenge!

Lomo Colorsplash

I took the colorsplash to the local lantern festival to try out the long exposure with flash technique, I decided to send this film away for developing and scanning, so it will be a few days before I get any photos to upload.

Week 66 - Lomo Colorsplash

Lomo Colorsplash (Chakras Edition), originally uploaded by pho-Tony.

This is one of the novelty Lomography cameras. It has a built in flash gun with easily selectable coloured filters. The shutter can be used on the "B" setting with second curtain flash synchronisation, so at night, a long exposure can produce a correctly exposed scene, punctuated with a coloured flash to freeze the image.

photo from week 65 - Agilux auto-flash 44

Bishops House micro-clic (black and white), originally uploaded by pho-Tony.

This is a multiple exposure, with the film advanced approximately one quarter of a frame between firings.

photo from week 65 - Agilux auto-flash 44

shawm player, originally uploaded by pho-Tony.

A shawm player, one of the Doncaster Waites group.

photo from week 65 - Agilux auto-flash 44

horse chestnut tree, originally uploaded by pho-Tony.

This was a rather disappointig roll, the shutter failed to fire on half of the exposures, so there were only six images. I don't know what the problem was, I checked the shutter before loading, and again once I found the unexposed frames, but it seems to fire every time. There is no lens cap, so it wasn't that old pitfall!