Meursault via Holga

More stuff that I did last year.
This is the rather excellent Meursault through the plastic lens of my Holga.

You may notice that the images aren’t quite as square as they are meant to be.
Famously dodgy build quality.

ZVG & Famous Dave

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while so I’m going to show some stuff that I did at the end of 2011.
Christmas matinee gigs are becoming a tradition with Zoey Van Goey.
2011 was no different.
They held one at mono with support coming from Famous Dave and his Strange Blue Dreams.

Zoey Van Goey

The black and white photos were all shot on Kentmere 100 film
What’s that Andrew, 100 speed film for concert photos, are you mental?
Yes 100, and yes quite probably.
I have a fast lens and it works better than you’d think.
The colour stuff is Kodak Portra 400

Lomokino

Lomokino

Well I was nearly right.
Out of all the fun cameras that Lomography have made this is one of the coolest and possibly the maddest.
And yet, I want one.

Check out the microsite as this is really quite charming.
Some folk have suggested, perhaps slightly unfairly that lomography are designing cameras to eat up as much film as possible.
This certainly is a camera for the bulk load film user if ever there was one.
They also have a reputation for being a bit pricey.
(or insanely expensive for what you get as another way of putting it)

This isn’t too bad.
£65!
Cheaper than any of their other recent cameras and this one does something different from anything else you may already have.
So yeah.
I like it and I want one.

New Camera from Lomography

Lomography have a teaser on their website for their new camera.
It will be unveiled at 11am on November 3rd.

They’ve offered a lot of cryptic clues and some glimpses of it in photographs but what exactly is it?

This was followed by 2 teaser videos.

So can you guess what it is yet?

Here’s my best guess based on the clues in the video.
It’s a 35mm camera that shoots frames that are 1/3rd size of a normal 35mm frame.
It shoots at 3, 8 or 10 frames per second.
To use it you wind the crank and then hold the button just like an old timer movie camera.
That would give you about 108 frames on a roll of film.
So, 36 seconds @ 3fps
13.5 @ 8fps & 10.5 @10fps.
The longest shot in that video lasts 10 seconds so that’s what I’m basing this on.

Will I be right?
If this was Nikon then probably but considering it’s Lomography, probably not.

Edit
03/11/11
Was I right? Almost.

I took photos at Social Media Week in September.
My photos are used on their website.
It’s only now in hindsight that something has become clear to me.

That is, I hate corporate photographs.
They’re so boring.
Nobody likes looking at them, nobody likes doing them or being in them and they don’t say anything interesting about you or your product or your company.

But why does it need to be that way?

I’m so happy that this image was used on the site (the sensible photos I took are on there too) because it’s so different to the rest and it says something..
By this point of the evening we were just having fun, and if it’s fun to make a photo that will come across in the final image.
What it says I’m not entirely sure yet.
But I do hope that the words vibrant, fresh and exciting would be in there.

Lite Touch 120ED – the photos

So after my last post how did the photos from the Nikon Lite Touch turn out.
Well I used some cheapo poundshop film and tried to test it in various situations.
Tried some close up shots and some at full zoom like this one and the next one.

The camera has very few controls.
You can set it on infinity focus, turn the flash on or off or put it on night portrait mode or as it should be called ‘slow synch flash mode’
The viewfinder zooms to match the lens which is pretty cool and the frame lines keep you sorted if you shoot close up objects.
Your only real control is focus-recompose by holding down the shutter button.
There is a bit of lag though so you do need to pre empt action.
The curse of compact cameras.

I’m pretty impressed by the images from this.
I look forward to making more of them.

Nikon Lite Touch 120ED

Nikon LiteTouch 120ED

You’d be shocked at what you can get for less than £10 these days.
35mm compact cameras don’t seem to be valued anymore, there are tons of them available for the same price as a disposable camera and why buy a throw away when you can get some much better.

So I did and it’s a Nikon.

I still think this camera was designed by someone who spilt their lunch on their computer, obviously custard, but it’s pretty good to use.
There are some nifty features too.
The viewfinder zooms in to show you an accurate view as you zoom in or out and there’s a macro mode that you don’t need to activate.

It is quite noisy though, lots of little motor sounds driving the focus and zoom.
We are very much in the realms of point and shoot with this camera, the only controls you get to play with are flash on or off and an infinity focus “landscape” mode and that’s it.
It also winds the film to the end and rewinds as you shoot.

Not sure how the photos come out yet as I’m still shooting my test roll because someone bought the wrong batteries.
The good thing about cameras like this is the age of them.
They are from 2000-03 right before Nikon scrapped the whole lot in favour of digital.
So that means you can find an almost brand new in box camera for less than the price of a take away meal.