Testing the Crown Graphic's Light-beam rangefinder with my favourite female model. Fuji Instant film.
Osher (Andrew) Günsberg |
The continuing adventures of a Brisbane boy far from home, as told to the internets through words and pictures. On the Blog since 2003 |
1955 Graflex Crown Graphic
Kodak Ektar 127mm Lens at f/4.7
Canon 580EXii Triggered by PWII's hooked up via vintage ASA-PC flash sync.
Fuji FP-100C45 Peel-Apart film.
Cable release.
Stunned Mullet face.
Already owning a 35mm Seitz roundshot, which is sadly on the fritz (another patient for Lenor's Camera repaid on Fairfax and 6th) - a few months ago I picked up a Lomo Spinner 360º. It's a super-fun camera, which takes remarkable panoramic frames if you just remember a few things.
To start with, she's pretty simple.It's rated for 400 ISO film, so:The E6 I've put through it looks spectacular, when processed as slide film.
The BW is also great. It spins a little too fast for low light unless you put 3200 in it. I'm experimenting with attaching a hot-light to the shoe-mount to see what I can come up with in the dark, I'll let you know how that goes.
When you're shooting, get some angles going on, you'll enjoy the results.Be sure that everyone stands quite close, it's a SUPER wide lens.Great for group shots, and candid selfies.Hard not to get yourself in the shot actually!
It's light and easy to carry around, and quick to reload.Enjoy!
Let me know if you have any questions!
I love how the product is revered in this film.
I love how they speak so highly of the camera and the consumer in the process. From how reverently they refer to Edward Land, (the inventor of the Polaroid process) to the pride they so obviously take in the manufacturing of this "Invention".
It's a pity that we don't revere products any more like this, that we don't appreciate the hard work and research that's gone in to them.
We just expect a product to be about 1/4 the cost of what it should be, to work straight out of the box without reading the manual, and yet we're ready to chuck it and buy a new one the moment it might look like malfunctioning.
Enjoy eleven minutes of wonderful worship of design and function..
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Trawling through some old negatives today I came upon this shot from I don't know where.
I do know that I shot it, but where - I don't remember.
I think I was at a party somewhere here in LA, in someone's kitchen (You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties)..
Seemed a perfectly good thing to take a photo of.
Not my photos, but I liked them.
I hope you do too.
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Fort Irwin Military Base, middle of nowhere, Mojave Desert, California.
Each military company that gets sent to this enormous base to train for warfare (the US army has a desert warfare training facility here complete with a replica Iraqi town - populated with real Iraqis employed to play the roles of inhabitants) brings a rock out to this rock pile and paints their insignia on it.
They go back decades.
Some of the logos are pretty intense, but then again, these guys aren't in the business of making friends.
Horizon S3 Panoramic Camera.