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

a friend gave me a bell and howell key chain camera http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/L952850.jpg a few Christmases ago. 320×288 images. with enough sunlight it was ok but man …. i have at least three workable images so may not dig out the camera and load the software for this contest.

btw this is NOT a good car camera. any pictures of the space aliens you might get will be way too small. even for world net daily or the national enquirer.

Okay, had to adjust the focal length to get a better focused image. The thing looks and works better now:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliogt/7032432483/in/photostream/

I’ll be into the archives as well; I’d forgotten I robbed pieces of my faux tilt-shift to fix a table, and my cat chewed up the seal I’d used for the DP lens while I had it apart for cleaning.

Hey guys I just wanted to check that my submissions will be ok. They were all taken with disposable cameras and I just had the dude at the Walgreens put them on CD for me.

I got a little intimidated hearing all the crazy mods you were up to!

That’s perfectly fine. Can’t wait to see them!

Oh, and don’t be intimidated by crazy mods. Well, except maybe Staplermofo, but he’s a whole different kind of crazy mod.

…man…I guess I should start the archive dive right about now. Though against the mofo, I won’t have anything abstractly bizarre enough. ;o0

So, I know this is supposed to be my party and all, but, uhhh….. Can I get an OBO tonight?

Work blocks access to my FTP server (yes, even the hard way through telnet and multi-layer binary shells).

Code below, copy-paste ready and Y2K compliant:

Single and Blue



Shot through a homemade lens consisting of a magnifying glass, PVC pipe, and a soda can.





^Clickr pops Bigr at Flickr





Posted OBO Orionid, who is currently stuck in a 72-hour-a-week shiftwork black hole

Floor Over Sky



Shot through a homemade  three-port pinhole blender consisting of a Mr. Peanut can, a film canister, cut-up pieces of soda can, and lots of nuclear-grade duct tape.





^Clickr pops Bigr at Flickr





Posted OBO Orionid, who is currently stuck in a 72-hour-a-week shiftwork black hole

Twisted Rail



Shot through a homemade anamorphic pinhole camera using a 280-degree cylindrical film plane and perpendicular offset pinhole that was constructed from the carcass of a 1930's-vintage Kodak Brownie Target Six-20 and PVC pipe.





^Clickr pops Bigr at Flickr





Posted OBO Orionid, who is currently stuck in a 72-hour-a-week shiftwork black hole

Fluffy-B (and orionid) – I’m 99.9% sure I’ll be sitting here at post time. I’ll let Fluffy do the honors but if that falls through just give me a heads up.

What I came here to ask is this…just what is this artifact called? The bloom, smeared look of the daisies.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farktography/Holga_9892b.jpg

I’ll also need an OBO please:

Hopscotch
Shot with a Kodak Instamatic converted to use 35mm film: the “Necromatic”

Winter Night
Shot with a 1915 Kodak Rainbow Hawkeye Box camera: the “Brick”

Quote:

Sewer
Shot with a Holga, the “Farkholga”. Subject matter befits the medium used to capture it.
(or as my husband would say, holgas are shiat so I used one to take a picture of the shiattube)