Oops, left this post hanging in draft status.
The blog:
https://www.35mmc.com/
I have no financial interest in pixl-latr or any of Hamish Gill’s endeavors. I just like the blog and bought a pixl-latr.
https://www.678vintagecameras.ca/blog/those-twicky-twansitional-twin-lens-point-shoots
Not a great image but fun – paw prints where a young black bear climbed over the neighbor’s wall to get apples.
My sweetie at Latir Lake #4 (of 9).
Goober, that handsome devil.
Bus detail.
This film was in the Chinon SLR I reviewed. It’s Kodak Max 400 I think, I can’t find my notes and the film is so dark I can’t read frame numbers or edge markings.
There was a lot of overlap, sometimes triple exposure, so the parts of the film that have images are kind of a jumble. Except for a couple (see below), it wasn’t worth extracting individual frames so I scanned strips – 5K-ish wide by 700-ish tall. WordPress image upload barfed on trying to do post-processing on the wide images so I’m putting links to unprocessed files. Click the link and your browser will open the JPEG in a new tab or window. In Firefox or Safari, click it and it will zoom to 100%. Then you can horizontal scroll.
1st image (~1.4MB)– The exterior shots look like the landscape around Los Alamos.
2nd image (~2MB)– This half is in better shape (multiple exposures aside). I think it may have been earlier on the roll so better protected when curious folks opened the camera back.
This is probably the best image I could salvage.
Old image or just old school. Dad may be military.
After WordPress couldn’t process, I punted and put the files on Google Photos. [time goes by…] After wasting an hour or so of my life, I found that Google Photos, like many things Google does, is a useless waste of time. They want complete control of how and with whom you share your own photos. I can share an album or a photo that’s not in an album but it either is controlled within Google’s viewer, which blows, or it can be downloaded. As a download transfer station to get images to friends, it does work, so it does have very limited utility. There are a couple of convoluted hacks to get links directly to files but none of them worked for me. I should have expected as much. After giving up on Google, I looked at the media library in WordPress and the original files had uploaded, it just couldn’t process thumbnails and other intermediate sizes.
Google – Don’t be evil. Hahahaha! Sucker! Getting you to think we weren’t going to be evil was the most evil part.
Optimist vs Pessimist
The light through the wine glass looks like a disgruntled alien.
Photojournalism is exhausting work.
A bold fashion statement.
Hehe, my phone got so baked on 4/20 it got the time backwards.
On a recycling bin at the transfer station.
I buy unrelated stuff that would look odd together but “frequently”?
September 27, 1934 – August 1, 2020
I have no financial interest, I just think what they’re doing through the PTM Foundation, particularly for Indigenous Peoples, is pretty awesome.
Kodak Gold 200 film found in in a Ricoh KR-30SP.
NM plates. Could be a state building or one of the national labs.
Interesting building. That’s a big chimney.
This one spans part of two frames.
This roll of Kodak MAX 400 (C-41 color print film, not T-MAX) has been sitting in the refrigerator for a while. It was in the Canon AL-1 when I bought it in late December 2019. I’m trying to work my way through more found film before the chemicals go bad. I’m using the Cinestill “Color Simplified” 2-bath kit. It’s the 1st batch I’ve used so I have no idea of its staying power vs the Unicolor kit I usually use.
On to the images.
Gorgeous dog. Want to steal.
Wind chime.
Frozen bird feeder.
Frozen bird feeder detail. Even the perch has ice.
Icicles.
Trashcam: “any camera whose value at least doubles when loaded with film.”
From http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Trashcam
It has a taking lens, a viewfinder lens, a waist-level lens, and a mirror. Pseudo TLR? TLR? ThreeLR?
PDF manual on the Manuals & Ephemera page.
My take is this: With all the effort put into fake bits to make it look, fooling no one, like a real camera, they could have built a real camera.
There may be some images here at some point. In spite of this being a valueless piece of carp when it works, I’m going to try to fix it. After the 1st tear-down, I had to go back in because I had a wire across the frame counter dial and the waist level viewfinder mirror came off. It has two plastic posts with the ends melted to hold the mirror. The spring that resets the counter when the back is opened broke and then my repair broke. I think I’ll replace it with a rubber band. It will make sense when I post tear-down & (hopefully) repair entries. I do love a pointless challenge.
The textures and shapes are just, wow.
I have a digital backup shot of this but I kind of like it in spite of the horrendous grain.
More desert texture.
Cool rock formations.
This part of the Continental Divide Trail is harsh but beautiful.