Sekonic L-VI Manual
Inspired by the post The History of Camera Manuals – Part One on the Film Wasters forum, I decided to post some of the old manuals I have in my very small collection. There is something really cool about the design and style of old packaging and manuals and leafing through them from time to time can be quite entertaining.
First up is the user manual for a Sekonic L-VI Exposure Meter.
If you want to download the manual as a zip file check out my manuals page.
Posted on October 7th, 2010 tagged with light meter, manual, sekonic l-vi exposure meter
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World Toy Camera Day Is This Weekend
If you follow the world of Toy Camera or Low Fidelity photography, you probably know that this weekend is World Toy Camera Day. In fact, this year WTCD is actually two days and spans October 9th and 10th. In anticipation of that, I dug out my old Diana-F 162B camera and got it ready for use.
It’s been a long time since I used this camera. One of the reasons for this camera’s temporary retirement is that there was a large triangular light leak on all the photos. This was interesting at first but after a while I got bored with it since the leak was on every photo. You can see the leak in this old photograph taken in 2005.
I never did get around to troubleshooting the leak but my theory is that it is coming from one of the two holes at the top of the camera where the flash would normally go.
Well, that is the theory so today I taped up the holes and I guess we’ll see if my theory is correct when I get my film back in a few weeks.
This year I have decided to load the camera with color film and have a few rolls of Kodak Portra 160NC available that got thrown in with my Mamiya 645 eBay purchase a while back. The film expired in 2004 but I don’t think that will cause any problems.
Here is the camera with the film wound on ready to go.
I also plan to bring my trusty Harrow camera (which is a Diana clone) and that one is currently loaded with some Foma black and white film. And I may bring a Holga : forty year old cameras are not all that reliable so bringing a backup or two is always a good idea.
Stay tuned for some WTCD 2010 photos in a few weeks and if you have taken some, post a link a comments.
Posted on October 5th, 2010 tagged with diana-f, toy camera, world toy camera day, wtcd
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FinePix X100 Video
Via Engadget
Looks kind of like my Olympus 35 RC
Posted on September 20th, 2010 tagged with camera, digital, finepix x100, fujifilm, video
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I Love Prints
I have been looking at these photos from my street photography collection for a while now but only ever viewed them on my computer screen. Last week I decided to upload a bunch of photos to mpix.com and make some prints.
Presented here is a small sample of the 4x6s I got in the mail today (photo taken with my iPhone).
Even though these prints are small, there is definitely something special about holding a real photograph.
If you are interested in taking a closer look, you can see some of these photos on davedunneonline.com