Author Archives: stoatly

52 Cameras: # 159 — Exa

Trinity

Sheepshead from North Truchas

Deer carcass – Truchas Amphitheater

Deer skull – sharpened a little

52 Cameras: # 158 — Fujica Compact S

When I have some time, I’ll scan the negatives. I got them scanned with processing and the originals are hi-res but super noisy.

The uncropped version. Damn I miss her.

Hanging out at the train station by Tomasita’s.

Old locomotive.

My sweetie. I tried the PS “despeckle” filter but it didn’t help.

Trinity’s out of focus but it’s weird and I like weird.

52 Cameras: # 157 — Sony DSC-V3

The memory stick came with it so I checked for found photos. The only thing on it was a movie of a movie being played on a laptop or portable DVD player-type thing.

MMA fight from 2012 – Henderson v Diaz

Zoe

The colors are really saturated even without turning it up.

Noisy in low light. J-Man took this one.

Katydid

Flowers in the yard

Goober doing his Dr. Evil imitation

52 Cameras: # 156 — Minolta Freedom Zoom Explorer EX

Saint Francis.

Sleepy Zoe.

Cattails at the irrigation pond.

Neighbor’s cat comes and eats the food we put out for the feral cats. We call him/her “Chaka”.

More images from the roll found in the camera at http://exit272.com/?p=4221

Random post for 11 July 2018

You ever look at some of the spam that gets caught by email filters? Sometimes there are lengthy paragraphs of text that looks like they were scraped from random emails, texts, and web sites. Some of it is tiny, like this one, and some is white text on a white background that goes on and on.

Red Lobster spam

Every now and then there’s something funny in it, like this bit of slam poetry.

Jamaican dance hall music
Hussydom
Peasanthood
Jamaican dance hall music
Immortalizer
Three-penny piglet
LOL, Jamaican dance hall music

This popped up at an online Sudoku site. I probably don’t want to know.

Ice cream? Potato? Diseased organ?

Forgot which spam we were writing.

The app installation progress looks like cartoon Hitler.

Dang Etsy, do you know something I don’t?

OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, Wait, what?!

52 Cameras: # 155 — Konica Autoreflex TC

I like the angle — it fits the chaos and urgency.

On our way to Trejo’s Tacos.

Alexander McQueen design at The Getty.

Waiting for our food at All’ Angolo Pizza & Pasta. Yum!

52 Cameras: # 154 — Pentax IQZoom 145M Super

Not too many images — the old Photoworks film strikes again.

My sweetie at Il Vicino.

The flower that refuses to die.

High-speed tire swing.

52 Cameras: # 153 — Vivitar A35 Splash Proof

Photoworks ISO 400 film. Expired in 2006. Scanned on a Canon 9000f at 2400DPI and reduced to 1024 on the long side for upload.

The sensor apparently adjusts the flash. The film is 400 but it’s lost speed with age so probably more like 200. Indoor shots are underexposed so the scanner pumps up the gain so I get film grain plus scanner noise. Still, not bad for a cheap camera and cheap, old film.

The munchkin took this one.

Stairwell coming out of the city parking garage.

My timing was off and I split the car with the pole.

Some research info…

The auction ad showing the manual copyright date and the box showing that the camera was sold by itself.

This next ad might be able to claim accuracy on technicalities. The shutter could be accurate at all of its one speeds. It auto-focuses at the one, fixed, focus setting. Maybe there were variations and some cameras came with an f/4.5 lens.