Here’s some more photos from my “new” Agfa Clack camera taken in my testing grounds- Owen Conservation Park, a short walk from the house. I kinda like the look! Maybe a bit too weird for art festivals? But I like it.
Click and Clack
An “Agfa Clack”. I’d never heard of it till last weekend’s art show, now I’ve got one, reversed the lens and have shot my first roll. It’s a 1950’s plastic point and shoot camera made in Germany that has a very simple one element lens. Much like the Kodak Brownie. When you take the camera apart and turn the lens around backwards you get some neat effects. (Makes me wonder who in the world first tried this) Here are a few shots from my first test roll taken about an hour after I got the camera in the mail off eBay and reversed the lens.
There is also a companion camera called the “Agfa Click” The Clack is a 6×9 format and the Click is 6×6. So of course another eBay order has been placed. I need to have a Click and a Clack.
Thank you to the guy who gave me the tip about the Agfa cameras.
Pope Farm and the Pinhole
During the summer I don’t get much time to get out taking new photos, but the sunflowers at Pope Farm Conservancy weren’t going to wait for me. So here’s a shot from last week taken with the 8×10 pinhole camera. I enjoy doing shows, but I’m looking forward to some down time from shows to get out shooting again this fall.
Some More Color
Here’s a little more color pinhole experimentation from the Dane C0unty Fair. I’m getting the hang of this cross processing color film and contemplating doing a series of color photos in the square format for shows sometime in the future.
Crossing to Color
So my latest mini-project has been working with cross processing color slide film in color negative chemistry. (Intentionally using the wrong chemicals) It’s been a lot of hit and miss… mostly miss. As if pinhole photography wasn’t unpredictable enough! The colors even seem to shift depending on over and under exposure. So it’s unpredictable. The jury is still out on weather I like this technique. But here’s a few random photos that I thought were the better ones….
Spamography?
What do you call a pinhole camera made from a Spam can? A “Spamera” or a “Spam-cam”? Here’s a few shots from this week from my newest camera. I haven’t made a great image with the camera yet, but I really want at least one great shot I can point to at art shows and say I took it with the “Spam-cam”.
The “Spamera” under construction. It’s my first roll film camera I’ve made. It uses 120 roll film and is entirely made of foam core and gaffer’s tape on the inside.