04-04-12 – Pinholes, Lomos & Holgas, Oh My!

Oh, the other end. For the Soda Can Lens (TM), I took a cheapo body cap from B&H, used a dremel and a fine-point woodcarving bit to make a notch for the snap lock (springy thing that keeps your lenses from falling off) to latch into. Then I hollowed out everything inside the bayonets with a larger carving bit. Then I epoxied that to a piece of 2″ diameter PVC pipe that had already been cut to the right length. Works like a champ.

So, in the world of farktography, scanning as a means of turning film into ones and zeroes is absolutely kosher. Dititization by means of a slide duplicating rig attached to your DSLR has been mentioned as kosher, though AFAIK, never been used. Now, before I drop the gauntlet on an incredible idea I just had, I need to clarify something that’s not exactly spelled out in the rules.

Say, I coat a three-dimentional object with emulsion, load it into a camera, and shoot/expose as normal, then develop said emulsion. The object in question is now certainly a photograph (or, errr, negative) in and of itself, but digitizing it raises questions. If I could lay it on a scanner and scan it, then I think that should be fine without question, but what about taking a digital photo of the object and cropping in to the edges of the photo? For the spirit of this theme, I’d say that’s still allowed (Unless everyone vehemently objects), but what about the greater farkdom? If I emulsify, say, a wine glass, load it into a view camera, expose myself onto it (not like that, ravnostic), and then scan or photograph said wineglass, could I use that for a self portrait theme?

I think I’d allow it just for the sheer, “you did WHAT?!” I think the rules are more there to prevent people going extreme with photoshop or digital editing; manual editing like this are so out-there that I can’t think they’d fall under the same rules.

If I emulsify, say, a wine glass, load it into a view camera, expose myself onto it (not like that, ravnostic), and then scan or photograph said wineglass, could I use that for a self portrait theme?

What? I sed no-ting… 😆

No. Perhaps not. But you thought it, didn’t you? 😀

Woohoo! After scouring Manchester for a place that does proper film development, I finally came across a camera store that, while like the others here ship out film for development with high price tags and no customisation available, had some friendlier staff. One guy pulled me aside, said that there’s a guy not too far from me that does his own in-store developing and is game for x-processing, 120, slide, whatever. He’s on vacation right now, but I’m hoping this means I *finally* can get some shots developed and scanned in time for this contest 😀

High Five! Great Success!

what is this? I don’t even….

Finally found my spiderman software… might have something for this theme after all…

I will have three new cameras for this theme. One, I’ve been working on for a few weeks, it should be ready for testing this weekend. The second is not far behind. All I can say about the third is that it’s cracking me up.

Is one of them the X-mas gift pin-hole? I’m eager to know how that turns out.

For myself, I put down the money for the Holga lens kit for Canon. I might take that to the FarkCon next month. I also went for the 580EX II flash, since I figure most of the Con will be indoors or at night. It’ll be Holga-rific!