puppet-mode
turned out to have a nice indentation function I could borrow and modify. How about that?
1600-speed (and such) film season is marching toward us. I've been having a great time with my Olympus XA2 since the middle of last year, especially when I went to Nanjing. It's everything I need in a pocketable camera (half-frames like the various Olympus Pens are lovely too, but geez it takes an age to finish a roll!), but I had this nagging itch about ISO 800 not quite being enough. What to do?
You go and find an XA3 going cheap, of course. Mine cost me all of $40 (before postage, sadly). It adds ISO 1600, and DX (auto film detection - I could do without it, really). Fuji Neopan 1600's coming out a winner in it, so much so that it may well be the only type of film I'll use in this camera. I can always use the XA2 for, y'know, colour film - I'm expecting grand things from a single roll I have of Fuji Provia 400X, in fact.
There's more to see from my Olympus XA3 over on flickr.
]]>I'm still alive, just trying to work out what to say.
Mostly I've been taking lots of photos, lately. I even made a book of black and white photos from Nanjing (I'll do another one of some of the colour shots soon).
I hope you're well.
]]>I started a new group on flickr in case anybody else has photos of Housing Commission Flats around Melbourne or, indeed, other parts of the world.
Feel free to join in. Please.
]]>(yes, this means I can't go and see The Bats at the NSC.)
]]>I'm in an exhibition next month. Please come along!
]]>In any case, we'll find out tomorrow!
]]>International Commie Camera Day 2009 seems to have been extended into the weekend, though I didn't manage to capitalize on the extra time - I did manage to shoot a whole roll on the main day (Friday), though.
]]>Instead, here's two photos I took last Wednesday with the Zeiss folder on Ilford XP2 Super, which is chromogenic film - black and white that's developed using the C41 process, normally used for colour film - hence I didn't (try to) develop it myself.
Coming next? I just picked up a bunch of expired B&W 35mm film to home-develop, so I suspect I oughta go and shoot some.
]]>So, I've finally developed a roll of film at home.
I need, um, a lot more more practice with spooling it onto the metal reel, as you might notice - there are plenty of blotches of undeveloped areas on the roll, so it must've been touching in places. But there were a few salvageable (for some values of "salvageable") photos amongst the messed up and/or "let's just finish the damn roll" test shots.
]]>Before long, I found myself down by the river, heading toward and through the (closed) Collingwood Children's Farm:
...and towards Victoria Street, where I figured I'd be able to find somewhere open for breakfast (even on Good Friday).
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