Monthly Archive for July, 2010

venturing into film

just bought a ‘white slim angel’ ultra wide angle 35mm film camera for £29.99. it’s a replica of an (in)famous vivitar ultra wide & slim. it’s got a 22mm lens (aper­ture f/11 and shutter speed 1/125th sec) and…well nothing else really. bit more detail here. this’ll be my first venture into film pho­to­graphy for many, many years. everything is manual (except the focus which you can’t change anyway!). have to say i’m approach­ing the project with a certain amount of trepidation…and bought 10 x rolls of kodak colour iso200 film on impulse (they were a bargain though!). whether it’ll be any good remains to be seen but i can’t wait. images to follow…




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photography calculator for android

just dis­covered pho­to­graphy cal­cu­lator which is an android applic­a­tion that helps cal­cu­late hyper­focal dis­tances for photography…mostly useful for land­scapes but it could be used for macro work too i suppose. you enter your camera type, effect­ive focal length, aper­ture and dis­tance to subject. it then gives you the hyper­focal dis­tance for focus­sing. it also includes a field of view calculator…which shows the number of images required for pan­or­amic work. it has details for my sony a200 and 1476 other cameras.
haven’t tried hyper­focal dis­tance tech­nique before so this tool should make things slightly simpler. $2.99 well spent i feel. see below for a couple of screen­shots…


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anti-terror bollards glasgow airport

these bol­lards were erected after the attack on glasgow airport in 2007. there are rather a lot of them. this was taken using my htc hero with added lomo effect.

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plywood corridor

the central hotel on hope street in glasgow is bring refur­bished. this walkway runs along­side it beneath the scaf­fold. plywood cor­ridor. lomo. map

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