autumn sunset
Look what I just found :)
Category Archives: Photography
new toy
I got a new toy for my birthday :)
It is a really old camera, a Rolleicord Art Deco. I’ve been longingly staring at them in the shop windows of Vienna’s countless camera stores for over a year. And now it showed up as a surprise guest for my birthday party.
I’m still learning how to use it, but I think we will be friends sooner rather than later. I shot 2 rolls of film now and they look quite okay as far as I can tell. But they’re not scanned yet as they still hang to dry … Can’t wait to see them :)
And a quick look at the house next door. The focusing screen is so dirty it’s even visible in the picture. It was a bit hard to focus with all this dust in between, which is why we took the camera apart in the first place.
We opened the camera up to replace a few parts (to make it nicer to use, it worked from the beginning) and found what I think must be the production date. It says 12 September 1934. I love taking apart old stuff to find a date or name engraved somewhere …
And I think it has not been used in quite some time, we found a metal rod from what was likely the last roll of film shot in it. And that film still came on a metal rod instead of plastic.
close up
Maybe there will be another post on taking it apart and fixing stuff ;)
finally
Because of my accident last february, I haven’t seen real snow in quite some time. I’m still waiting for a chance to get my snowboard out again, but after 2 years of mild winters in the city I was missing the snow sooo bad.
So last weekend we went to Salzburg to explore and play in the snow. As you can see, the weather was glorious and the cameras even went for a swim.
new old camera
A few years ago my grandfather gave me his old Canon AE-1, but I didn’t really use it as I found the whole film-thing to be quite annoying.
But now that I have access to a dark room (which also means being able to get the pictures right after shooting if I want to) it got to come out and play.
the next generation
Turns out that having to put in a new strip of film for every single shot gets old really fast … So we are building a new pinhole camera.
It’s base is, again, a can (from paint this time), but it will use medium format film. Roll film. No changing bag required \o/
Also, it has two holes instead of one. And it is time for the camera to get a name, I can’t keep numbering my pinholes forever. But I digress.
I think I started working on it in April, and today the camera produced a first picture:
exposure time 2 minutes, probably f/512
I’m so curious if it actually ends up working with the roll film.
toy camera #3
More toy-camera-pictures.
This time from a holiday afternoon a few weeks ago that we spent strolling through the city.
