Monday, January 21st, 2008
My D70 is still waiting for repairs, and they called today saying that it won’t be another 7 days until they can even take a look to find out what’s wrong. Oh well, I sort of understand, with the repair centre being closed for Christmas and all.
What does that mean to me? I have to find other ways to take photos. I’ve finished two rolls of film on the F90X and they should be ready tomorrow, although I won’t have a way to put them online as of yet. I’m too impatient and like my photos immediately as I do with a digital camera, so over Christmas, I’ve been getting myself busy with my vintage Polaroid camera.
The black and white, type 667 film is brilliant, and that’s what I’ll be showing you in today’s post. Be warned, I don’t have a proper scanner and these are just photos of the prints taken when my D70 still worked. They look heaps better in real life, nice contrasty blacks and brilliant sharpness.
My very first photo, I was pleasantly surprised.
I really liked this one, shows something you don’t usually find in Melbourne.
And this one is just cool.
Parliament House:
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I do have a habit of taking photos as many of you know, and since my D70 is dead and waiting to be fixed at the service centre, I got myself a cheap old film SLR on ebay. Mind you, it’s cheap but back in 1994 when this camera came out, it was the almost-pro amateur camera/pro’s backup body, much like what the D200 is today.
The worst thing about this camera is that there is no way to set the aperture on the body - you have to work around in Program mode if you have a G lens without the aperture ring.
The amazing thing is that my Tokina 12-24mm mounts on it and gives a full image at 18mm. Which is the equivalent of 12mm on digital. The top LCD also has a funky backlight like the ones you got on digital watches from the same era. The back LCD panel isn’t working because that’s actually a data back and not an integral part of the camera and needs its own batteries, which need replacing.
Pics or it didn’t happen:
The tiny 50mm lens in the corner is just there to stop the thing from tipping over like how it has in the last picture.
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