Camera confession #2 (see yesterdays post for #1)… I also purchased a Polaroid SX70 this week!
I know, I know.
I made my own filter so it can take the more easily obtainable 600 film and rushed out (again) to try a couple of shots. It’s amazing! I love the focussing and the depth of field – it’s going to be so much fun using this camera, it has so much soul!
green apples + black cherries…
I think it’s time to admit that I have an addiction… to cameras! Not just shiny new digital SLRs, in fact quite the opposite (although I like them too). My tastes are now positively retrospective and (some would say) archaic. Film and negatives are once more part of my life (although the contact dermatitis I got from years of swishing around ungloved in fixer and stop-bath never went away).
Imagine then my reaction when I spy in the window of a local charity shop a big felt-tipped sign declaring “Camera Sale”. I wasn’t driving so I grabbed the steering wheel and directed the car and a startled husband to the nearest parking spot so I could investigate further. After lots of rummaging and remarkable self-control I decided to buy justone andafter hamding over a couple of pounds I was the proud owner of a colossal beast.
It’s a FujiFilm Instax 200. As you may have guessed it’s an instant camera from Fuji (who, unlike Polaroid, are still producing film). The internet finally delivered my film today – a refreshingly cheap buy compared to the ever-incresing price of Polaroid film. I couldn’t wait, I had to run out to the garden and take a shot – this is hot off the press…
The colours look great (considering the failing light and looming storm clouds) and I love the wide-screen shape compared to a regular Polaroid. There’s some great examples of what can be created with it on Flickr, including these…
1 NoseHill 2 Untitled 3 Day 282: Relaxation 4 Temps de chien
One of my local haunts (excuse the pun) is the Old Cemetery in Southampton.
It’s Victorian, very gothic and just down the road from my house so I often go there to wander quielty amonst the gravestone with whichever camera is flavour of the month with me (usually more than one – Polaroid this time).
I’m never 100% comfortable doing this but it is a truly interesting place and I don’t remember anything specifically from Sunday School that precluded me from doing this.
Look! How cute. Über cute is how cute.
One of the loveliest things about living where I do is that there is a National Park, The New Forest, just 10 minutes away and you get to bump into ponies, donkeys, pigs and…
…cows. They wander freely, wondering what all the silly humans are gawping at. Goodness knows what they thought about me and my Polaroid!
I love to shop, I can normally snuffle out where the shops are with a blindfold on but signs are always appreciated…
Today marks the beginning of ‘Roid week ’09.
Thankfull it’s nothing to do with hemroids (I think I’ve watched too many Carry On films), rather it’s all to do with fabulous Polaroid photography!
I have a mini stash of film that got a bit of an airing today, plus I have a few snaps that I haven’t shared yet to fill in any gaps.
The camelias are fading, fading, but remembered in an instant…
…don’t worry, there’s wind and rain on the way so all the blossom will be gone soon enough and I promise when it is I will turn my lens to things neither pink nor petally. But, for now, more polaroid pinkness.
