Monthly Archive for August, 2010

diana f mini 35mm

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.

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loch lomond shores

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…

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library abseil

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.

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orange sunset from troon

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.

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