kids getting trolleyed #1
Trying out another new medium format camera. Introducing the Great Wall DF-3, also known as a Chang Cheng.
It's a 6x6 SLR with a removable lens, although only one lens was ever made for it. It's about 3/4 of the size of a small TLR like a Seagull or Yashica, with a similar WLF and film loading mechanism. It's pretty solid and optically sound, as well as having a decent range of shutter speeds and aperture settings, so it doesn't really fit into the toy camera category. The bokker looks pretty smooth.
Stoopid me didn't realise there was a 645 mask in place, so I ended up with 12 photos with big spaces in between. Also means I had to crop a bit as the composition was a bit mangled.
Modeling by the Vermin family inc.
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the great street cliché
Yeah, pedestrian walking past writing on a wall is the most trite, overdone street photography cliché ever. Just testing out a camera, OK?
So this one's a Vredeborch Vrede Box. It's an old German box camera with a cool retractable built-in yellow filter and crappy viewfinders. Shoots in 6x9 and probably should be used on a tripod because of the slow shutter.
Also trying out an old roll of Maco PO100c from the back of the fridge. Liking the way it catches a bit of shadow detail in contrasty light. It's the curliest film I've used though - worse than Cube 400C. I've had it squashed under phone books for a fortnight and it's showing no signs of flattening.
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state of the union
Normally I wouldn't fire a shutter in Union Lane - it's full of the most yawn-inducing commissioned pretend-edgy street art you'll ever see.
A big yellow rusty dumpster is worth burning a frame on though.


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letterbox skyline
So the pano crappycam leaks in colour...


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dead end
Enough of the natural landscapes for the moment.


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