The difference quality makes.

I noticed something interesting about these two pics. Both of these pictures were taken at roughly the same time maybe five minutes apart under the same lighting conditions, but they have wildy different outcomes. Mind you the film is the exact same in each camera, iso 200. Now the difference here is that the one of Heather was taken on a 1976 Praktica SLR, a nice glass and metal sturdy german camera, and the one of me was taken on a plastic body, plastic lens, new Diana Mini. Wow what a difference.

 

 

Diana Mini First Roll

These pics are taken with a Diana Mini. It's an all plastic toy film camera that shoots square 24mm x 24mm or 17mm x 24mm. I had these on my macbook for a while and forgot about them, they are from May 2010. I got the film developed and put to disk at Shoppers which left an 11 mm black bar on each one which I cropped out in Picasa. No edits on the shots other then the crop to square. The city shot is from One King West and is a 10 second hand held bulb exposure pressed against the window to keep it steady.

 

 

 

 

Three new cameras.

Heather and I stopped at Bud Gowan Antiques when we saw a 50% off sign in the window. I found these three cameras each of them for under ten dollars. Since every camera collector has to have a Brownie in his collection I realized this was my Brownie. I just love the Art Deco pattern on the steel front. The Brownie (box shaped camera) is a Brownie Six-16. Taking the camera apart was a challenge who knows how many years it sat on a shelf. The date on the sticker inside says 1932 also made in Canada. It has a Six-20 handle on it which must have came from another camera. There was a roll of film inside too! I am going to get it developed, would be awesome if there were some pictures from the 30s on it.

The next camera is an Instamatic X-35, this one was five bucks. I didn't realize it was not a a 35mm camera until I got it home. But I found a youtube video that shows how to put 35mm film in the 126 cartridge. I just have to get my hands on a cartridge for this camera.

The last camera may be the most interesting and possibly the rarest of the three. Its a Time Magazine camera that came with a subscription of Time back in the day. I am not sure what year it is but I am guessing mid 80s. Its a cool looking 35mm camera and its very light. Also has a hot shoe which should work well with my 25 dollar holga flash. Toy cameras are all the rage these days and this was a stellar find for under 10 bucks!






Pics taken on Samsung Galaxy S

More from my Canonet 28.

The Canonet 28 is not going to be my favourite go to film camera but its still a fun little camera too use. Its just too bad its not fully manual. Here are a few more shots I took with it.





Taken on 1970ish Canonet 28

Trudeau Purse

I am by no means wise in the ways of fashion. But I thought this custom made Trudeau purse was pretty cool.



Taken with Canon G10

Heather on Film.

 

 

 

Taken on 1976 Praktica. no edits.

Macro Messin'

Got bored tried some macro shots on my toy Ducati bike. Taken on Canon G10 no edits only cropped a bit.

One King West

 

Snapped this pic of the hotel One King West. Nice place stayed there for our 1 year ann. Taken on Canon G10, no edits.

Canonet 28

Found this on Kijiji. I paid too much but I couldn't resist. Its a circa 1970s Canonet 28.

Wrecking Yard.

Truck cropped.

Did a crop on this. Most of the time I just post full frame shots with zero crops but I wanted to move this truck over a bit and lose the van on the right hand side. This also throws the pic in line with the rule of thirds.

Truck B&W 1000px

Taken on '74 Canon, B&W and levels via Picasa.

First roll on Praktica L2

A few weeks back I bought a 1976 Praktica L2 with a 100-200mm zoom lens, a 28mm lens, a 135mm lens and a 50mm lens for 35 bucks. The first roll I shot on it was the expired Agfa 200. The camera is pretty basic and does not have a built in light meter. So using the Sunny 16 rule I shot these pics. All in all they turned out well. I told the photo guy at shoppers to do no corrections so for an exposure test project it was a success. The shots themselves are nothing to write home about but its the exposure of each shot that was more important to me.
B&W via Picasa

Dusty Robot

Taken on Canon G10, in camera B&W, 1 second hand held exposure.

Edward takes a peek

Taken on Canon G10

Buzz update.

Ok i thought buzz was scary at first but i believe it only shows your location with a gps phone when you actually send a buzz. So if you are at a great coffee shop and you buzz about it on your phone that would show on google maps if your gps location services are on on your mobile device. I am liking it now. I was just confused at first.

Art Deco

Snapped this on my iphone. I love this building.

Is film expensive?

I thought I would answer a question I have been getting a lot lately. This blog is mostly film photography on vintage/old and toy cameras, although the more I shoot the more I am finding that I enjoy using vintage cameras, cameras that are over 20 years old.

Back to the question. No shooting film is not expensive. Most people who have old cameras classify them as junk now that they use digital. So this means there are lots of vintage cameras out there for sale. Last week I bought a 1976 Praktica 35mm camera with four lenses for 35 bucks!

I usually take my film to Shoppers. I find they are just as good as any other lab and most likely the cheapest, and it keeps me out of Walmart, which is always a good thing. To develop a roll of film and get the shots put on cd-rom costs me three dollars. Yes I said three dollars. As for the film itself I can get 3 rolls of 24 exposure for 10 bucks at Shoppers so thats roughly 3 bucks a roll, but I have been buying rolls of expired Agfa iso 200 for 2 dollars a roll from my local camera shop.

So as a hobby I think its safe to say that film photography is cheap and is also 10x more fun then digital!

Family Brunch Jan 31_10

These shots turned out really well and I think I am finally getting "the hang" of film. The depth of field in a few of these shots really taught me a lot about F-stops. I was using the expired Agfa iso 200 film and it was about 1pm with an overcast day outside. This provided some soft light coming in our big window in the living room. The f-stop was fairly low and this created a very nice depth of field on these portraits. Sadly the expired Agfa film is showing a rainbow line in these shots and looks to be consistent across rolls. In the future I will most likely use this film for B&W shoots, converting the color to B&W in picasa. Also I think its safe to say that the quality of these shots would have been hard to capture in natural light with a digital point and shoot.

Shot with 1974 Canon on 06 expired Agfa iso 200 film. No edits.