Wednesday, 31 March 2010

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
Originally uploaded by pho-Tony

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Tuesday, 30 March 2010

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...

Friday, 26 March 2010

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.

Wednesday, 24 March 2010