Ow!

So you don’t need to see the paper develop? You can just time it like you do with film?

I’m trying to think…headcheese, probably.

My knees hurt from looking at this picture.

Love that Sandmar 35mm! Just got one for myself. Haven’t had the chance to try it yet.

I need to experiment more with these. I think the fisheye would do better with bright light and bold colors and angles. And the Splitzer, well, I just need to get some experience with that to figure out how to best utilize that.

Fisheye shot of a classroom

Múltiple exposure showing a classroom clock and a multimedia Projector

Played with the Splitzer and the fisheye lens in the Lomo’Instant Automat today in my classroom before school started. #Polaroidweek #Instax #Lomography

I love these kinds of happy endings! The miracle that is lighter fluid.

Well, the popular one that everyone wants is the Yashica Mat 124 G, which is a great camera, but because influencers have gotten ahold of it, prices have skyrocketed. The Yashica D is a great camera, somewhat more basic, less popular, and a whole lot cheaper.

So allllll you folks podcasters and Bluesky people talking about #Pinhole Week make me wish I could try my hand at pinhole photography, but the issue is the lack of a darkroom. Can you develop the paper in a dark bag or one of those little pop-up tabletop dark tents if it is roomy enough?

Yashica made rangefinders, point-and-shoots, SLRs, TLRs, half frames, you name it. What format appeals?

Chessies are such unique dogs.

*cheers and stomps feet*
We take the wins where we get them.

I gave up on Electros for that reason. My new favorite rangefinder is an Argus C3 Matchmatic.

I enjoy using it, and I get some great images out of it. How wonderful that yours comes with such significant provenance.

I’ve worked through a 100’ roll of 100 ISO and a 100’ roll of 400 ISO, and I have to say I was a lot happier with the results out from the 100 ISO film. It’s just got a finer grain. Cleaner. I like the look of it better.

Yay Yashica!!!

Yashica D TLR camera hanging from a strap around a woman wearing overalls and a red shirt

I was listing off my #Yashica cameras today and remembered the Yashica FX-7 and the Yashica Samurai x4.0, but completely blanked on the Yashica D. How could I forget that one? I LOVE that camera! Who am I kidding? I love all my Yashicas. They are my favorites. Cheap, good, and hard to kill.

I’ve got 100’ of fresh Arista EDU 400 waiting in the fridge to be bulk-rolled, but I am trying to shoot up some other film first — expired and fresh. I really am a fan of Arista, though I prefer the 100 ISO to the 400.

I was just thinking about getting one of these light meters. Seems so much more straightforward than the Reflx Labs meter that I have which has a complicated system of button presses.

A black and white photo of an iris

Two benches overlooking a pond

A tree in the foreground, a street curving away, and a lamppost with a street sign in the background in front of a stand of trees with some buildings in the distance

Asphalt with “NO PAARKING” and stripes painted on it

Didn’t love this roll that I shot today, but I’m determined to share the good, the bad, and the ugly. There is some reticulation on this film.
📷 Yashica FX-7 w/28mm f2.8 lens
🎞️ Arista Professional 400 (Expired 2014 and shot at ISO 200)
🧪 Caffenol
📷📲 Epson V600
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead

A cellphone snap of my cat in front of the TV watching the Artemis splashdown got more likes than any proper photo I have ever posted by far.

Did not realize that.

Thanks! I will do that.

Sculpture of two children, a boy and a girl, sitting on a shaded bench, reading.

Sculpture of a child in a squatting pose, as if to play leapfrog.

Sculpture of a young boy with a basket on his back

Sculpture of a young girl in overalls with pigtails with a walking stick and a basket on her back, looking like she is going out on an adventure.

I hear it’s #Polaroidweek. I don’t have any Polaroid cameras, but I have several that shoot #Instax film. Here are a few shots taken at the local public library and the park next door to it on a Lomo’Instant Automat camera.

Oh, and you are in the UK…ugh. Tariffs…

Oh no! I’m sorry! I’m about to end up with an extra that I could send you, but it wouldn’t make it to you in time for Polaroid week, I’m afraid.

That’s beautiful!

Sadly, I don’t find a lot of expired medium format film

My husband does when he opens the fridge door and film falls out ;)