July 25th, 2010
Ideal camping terrain at Melt!
We are having a great time all over Germany, at festivals, at farms and in the capital. Yesterday at the bar at our camp site we watched a show of two musicians playing the most wonderful vintage 70´s film music, with old super 8 movies playing at a screen behind them. It was awesome. After that we went to a club, and then it was night, going on morning.
When I first used my lightmeter again after I got it back from repairs I thought it was still broken, but now it seems I was using it wrong, so there are lots of Yashica D shots to be developed when I get back. Yeah.
Tags: germany
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July 8th, 2010
bloemenjansje.com/works
I’m building a new place for all my creative works to go, you can check it out while it’s under construction here. It’s not done, so this is not an official announcement for my new incredibly professional portfolio site, the URL might even still change, it’s just a hint to have a look behind the scenes. Stuff will get updated and completed in the next weeks (?) so keep coming back and you will actually see a work in progress!
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June 28th, 2010
Tis the rain season, it’s raining cameras. And even though I only shoot about two rolls a month, I can’t keep up with myself. Two more 6×6’s from the Yashica D, and then some 35mm pictures from my new, only slightly moldy Canon A-1 with 50mm/f1.4 lens (thanks mom!).
Canon A-1:
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May 29th, 2010
appelhandjes
An old camera has recently arrived at my doorstep, asking me if he could, despite his flaws and malfunctions, live with me and maybe come with me on a trip sometimes. Of course what he really wanted was to be used again, but he was too proud to say it. I saw through him easily, and I have to be honest: he was too good-looking to resist. I took him in.
At first everything was great, we joked around and had a good time. But then came the point where he had to perform. I gently cocked his shutter, and fired it. Almost without a sound and trembling with anticipation, he opened up his shutter blades and closed them again rapidly. So far so good. I turned the dial down to 1/4 of a second, cocked his shutter again, and fired. He opened up his blades quickly, made the softest whirring sound, and then did nothing.
After my inventory of the camera’s flaws (a sticky shutter that was unreliable at high speeds and not functional at all at speeds below 1/8 of a second and a view finder with festive mouldy patterns encrusted in it), I must say I felt ambivalent towards him. I wasn’t sure what to do: get him fixed and pay the bills or throw him out and avoid the costs and the risk of wasting film. And like a cat that doesn’t know whether to attack the bird or just eat from the bowl starts washing itself out of pure confusion, instead of choosing either option, I just loaded him up with a roll of 120 film.
Handed down
Camera: Yashica D TLR with f/2.8 viewing lens and f/3.5 taking lens
Tags: 120 film, analog, fujiprovia400X, medium format, photography, TLR, yashica D
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