last saturday was international film photography day, so i mainly used analogue and some of the pics have come back...
My friend the swan - taken with a 1980 moscow olympic special Zenit 35mm
Bee on flower, taken with the Zenit
basking lizard, Zenit 35mm again
... as i hadn't used that camera before i only took 1 roll of film with it, just in case it was broken.
Daisies with purple film - taken with a Lomo diana F 'toy camera'
trees with purple film and diana with fisheye
Dandelion clock, purple film and diana with fisheye
Daisies with a Lubitel twin lens reflex... these are the cameras that you look down into a hood to focus and have 2 lenses on the front.
my friend taken with the Lubitel
him again, this time the Lubitel had redscale film in
reeds, Lubitel and redscale
reedbeds, lubitel and redscale (and passing gull)
cowslip taken with the Lubitel - i like this one, it doesn't look much, but the depth of field is good and shows how well this 'old piece of crap' - as it was called last weekend - works.
i have just built a 35mm twin lens reflex kit camera, so it will be interesting to see how that works. i have my eye on another Lubitel on
ebay (you can get them for less than £20) and a Lomo LC-A. The Zenit i used was part of a kit i got on ebay for £35 and included another Zenit 1980 special, some extra lenses and bits and bobs. i will try out the other camera soon, although that one has a battery powered light-meter and the battery has destroyed much of the compartment (plus, i have no idea what kind of battery it is). i used the Lubitel with a light meter (£1.99 on ebay) and the results were good, so i will use that for exposure.
i've been very surprised at how well most of the Lomo 'toy' cameras work, the Diana F+ is very good and 120 film has a charm of its own. Dslrs are great, but film does have a certain 'thing'.
ta for looking and sorry if i bored you!
so yours in the sunshine look great.
