Wallace Koopmans Artlog

The circle in a square of the laundromat dryer came to mind when I saw this hub on an old loader.  It’s obviously been painted several different colours as well as the dark staining of dirt encrusted grease.  Up close there is actually a lot of interesting textures and I took a few digital images for a possible  future painting.  The filmwas a fresh pack from the fridge and you can see that it didn’t develop evenly on the bottom, I’ll have to wait until next week to find out if that is how all of them will now be.

The Konica I from the late 1940’s has an interesting feature or lack of one depending on your perspective.  Because the shutter is on the lens and has no linkage to the body there is no film advance lock out.  What this means is that the advancing of the film is entirely independent of the taking of the picture.  I’ve experimented on this roll of film by partially advancing the film and panning so that the two or more exposures overlap.  I’m pleased with the first effort but now I want to do it again with my new knowledge and see if I can’t get some more interesting results. 

Well that worked out.  I performed the little trick with the Spectra camera where you take a picture and don’t release the shutter.  Then you open the camera up release the shutter and close it again.  At this point you can take a second exposure on the film.  I imagine you could continue to do this as long as you don’t over expose it into whiteness.  Now I need to come up with another idea to use this technique on.

Early morning walk before my meeting.  Malls devoid of people and cars are somehow eerie, like something less benign than consumerism lurks inside.

Some shots from outside the hotel I had meetings at all last week.

Some more images from the Kodak Retina IIIC.  It is a great camera which makes it all the more of a shame that the 50mm lens has damage.  And look I managed to sneak in another blossom image.

When you shoot film you tend to try to make every exposure count, at least more than with digital.  These images are from the same 36 exposure roll of Ektar 100 that I used for testing the camera.

Ok I’m no wine expert but I don’t think this was a very good year. 

This was shot with the Kodak Retina IIIc in case you got past the wine barrel garbage can connection.

So I received my negatives back today from Lens and Shutter who also supplied me with this camera.  If you read my first post about this camera I wrote how the 50mm lens had been damaged,  well that had little effect on the actual images.  So here are some samples and also views of the camera itself with the 35mm lens and viewfinder attached.  The 50mm lens does have considerable barrel distortion which I have corrected in Lightroom where it mattered.

I’m not sure how this happened, with the double exposure, but it prompted a search and it turns out that it should be possible to duplicate.  With the Spectra camera I use apparently you can fool the camera into not ejecting the exposed Polaroid by opening the camera while continuing to hold the shutter button.  Once fooled then you can take the second exposure.  If the right images present themselves I’m going to give it a try, on purpose this time.