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after recently get­ting the white angel slim camera i think i’ve rather been bitten by the 35mm bug. learnt a couple of les­sons along the way though…like don’t buy ilford hp5 iso400 film unless you’re going to develop it yourself…£10 a time and it’ll take 2 — 4 weeks using jessops. so i got some neopan 400cn from fujilab that can be pro­cessed by most shops as it’s c41 (even tesco do it!). so then i needed some­thing to com­pli­ment the film…hmmm…i present the diana f mini 35mm from lomo­graphy…

my favour­ite pur­chase for quite some time. it’s pack­aged in a lovely present­a­tion box with a manual, lens cap, strap, hard­back book and the camera itself. it’s com­pact but sturdy (mine’s the white ver­sion but it comes in other col­ours), has adjustable focus, 2 choices of aper­ture (f/8 & f/11), a bulb mode and the coolest shut­ter release i’ve ever come across. another fea­ture is that as well as taking the stand­ard square expos­ure it has a fea­ture that allows 2 por­trait pho­to­graphs to be squeezed onto each frame allow­ing 72 shots from a 36 expos­ure film. mul­tiple expos­ures are also easy to achieve. temp­ted? lomo­graphy have an online shop but you may get them slightly cheaper on ebay. they ooze style i think.

a little bay that sits at the south end of loch lomond. it’s at loch lomond shores. the sea life aquar­ium is right next to it. ben lomond looms in the back­ground. no, we didn’t go out on a pedalo…

bloke abseil­ing down the side of the uni­ver­sity of glasgow’s lib­rary. hard day at the office eh? they’re doing some­thing to the exter­ior cov­er­ing of the build­ing. taken with the white slim angel using 35mm kodak color.

caught a splen­did sunset when we vis­ited troon the other day…made our way down to the beach next to north shore road. it got more orange as it sank behind the hills…quite stunning.

i don’t own a flash or any fancy lights so when we got some nice nat­ural sun­shine i took a few shots of this little guy. this one’s been given the black & white treat­ment (obvi­ously) but another image, in colour, can be seen here. 50mm @ f/1.8

the ssh attacks on my serv­ers have been increas­ing recently…probably caused by a botnet of com­prom­ised serv­ers. see this art­icle on el reg.

still run­ning deny hosts and keep­ing an eye on the logs. there are other sug­ges­tions in the com­ments of the art­icle linked to above.

i’ve got many cam­eras but keep coming back to the wee 5 mega-pixel on my htc hero…the faux lomo thing really works well i think. wee pub on great west­ern road, glas­gow given the treatment.

i recently posted about get­ting a white slim angel 22mm film camera with thoughts of repro­du­cing the ‘lomo’ look. the res­ults obtained with my first roll of film were mixed…mostly all my fault. i shot indoors a lot and in bad light…not recom­men­ded. so this is one of the images that didn’t turn out toooo badly…a couple more can be found in my flickr set. quite like the vign­ette and grain but that’s about it.

got some ilford hp5 plus iso400 film that i’ll be trying next. it should cope better with the light…i hope.