Wednesday, 6 July 2011

photo from week 79 - Demekin 110 Fisheye

Reflected self-portrait with Demekin 110 Fisheye. Using a simple fixed shutter speed camera meant that I had to find a brightly lit place for the reflected portrait. This is the window of a local college.

photo from week 79 - Demekin 110 Fisheye

dancers by pho-Tony
dancers, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.
The Romano Jilo dancers at the Sharrow festival in Sheffield, this was taken holding the camera up in the air above my head.

photo from week 79 - Demekin 110 Fisheye

The lens on this novelty toy camera is so wide that even holding it at arm's length looks a long way off.
You can use your reflection in the front element to compose the picture.

Sunday, 3 July 2011

A Collectors Life For Me

A Collectors Life For Me by pho-Tony
A Collectors Life For Me, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The latest of my regular columns in Amateur Photographer magazine is on the newsagents' shevles now. This is about the Kalimar Actionshot 16 that I used in week 24.

Friday, 1 July 2011

photos from week 78 - Agfa Parat-1

Europe Pleasure International by pho-Tony
Europe Pleasure International, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.
2 consecutive frames (or rather half-frames) taken in Liverpool. The expired and cross processed film is responsible for the strange colours.

photo from week 78 - Agfa Parat-1

I was quite pleased with the weird colours from the very expired Ektachrome slide film which I cross processed in C41 chemicals. This photo illustrates the difficulty in getting accurate framing at close range when using a viewfinder camera as opposed to an SLR.

Week 79 - Demekin Pocket Fisheye

Demekin Pocket Fisheye by pho-Tony
Demekin Pocket Fisheye, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.
This is a real novelty camera. It takes a 110 film cartridge, which clips onto the camera and forms the body. The lens is an 8.9mm fisheye, there are no controls, the shutter speed, aperture and focus are all fixed. Bright conditions are needed, especially as the only 110 film available now is expired. I've loaded it with some from the late 1990s.