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redscale film with the black slim devil

an ‘inter­est­ing’ com­bin­a­tion. lomography’s red­scale 35mm (iso 100) and super­headz’ wee vivitar clone. some rather shock­ing pic­tures came back from the lab. the error’s mostly the pho­to­graph­ers fault although some strange, purple, arte­facts were present on some of the shots (see below)…not sure if they appeared on the negs as i haven’t bothered scan­ning them myself yet. UPDATE: got in touch with the lab about it and they said that they’d seen this before with red­scale. might be some­thing to do with the film being loaded back in to the can­is­ter after it’s been reversed.
the film’s rated at a speed of 100 but can be used between 50 and 200 to produce dif­fer­ent colours and effects. i usually use 400 (which the red­scale starts of as before they treat it) in the black slim devil due to it’s rather restrict­ive f/11 and fixed shutter speed. rather a lot of grain…quite a lot of flare…please see below…
regular readers (ha!) will know that i have a bit of a soft spot for cameras of a ‘lo-fi’ nature…wasn’t dis­ap­poin­ted with the results from my first foray into redscale…think the next roll might go into the lc-a (and it might not shred it when i attempt to rewind it this time).

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building a recesky tlr

bought a recesky tlr camera on ebay. build it your­self twin reflex lens camera that uses stand­ard 35mm film. instruc­tions? well on the box it says ‘instruc­tions to build camera included’ but, alas, there were no sign of said instruc­tions in the package i received. thank­fully a kind person has posted this guide which fea­tures pic­tures from the ori­ginal manual. there’s also this page which has pho­to­graphs of the process but isn’t ter­ribly helpful…or at least it wasn’t for me when i had no instruc­tions at all.

the box advises that the build will take an hour. took me just under 3 hours but i had to take it apart just when i was fin­ish­ing the first time as the shutter was getting stuck (keep firing the shutter as you go along to make sure it’s ok…frustrating to have to backtrack).

it’s solid, attract­ive, and i feel like i know a little bit more about the inner work­ings of a camera and it’s shutter. see some of the images below…with the com­pleted beast at the end. despite the lack of instruc­tions all the pieces were present with no parts left over at the end of the build.

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lomo lubitel 166b

let me intro­duce the new arrival. a lomo lubitel 166b. classic medium-format twin-lens reflex camera from the ussr. hailing from the early 80s it’s a solid beast with a view­finder which the oper­ator looks into from above. this isn’t a review…i’m just posting some pic­tures. if you’d like more info on the camera you can find some here and the manual’s here.

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the last diana mini images

my lomo­graphy diana mini has been passed to a new owner. i’ll miss the wee girl but i have too many cameras and she’ll hope­fully brighten the life of another pho­to­grapher. so here are some sample shots from the last roll to pass through her…some fujicolor superia x-tra 400…low light = big grain…

so long toatie yin…we had some good times.

 

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