Shutter lubricants get hard or gummy if they sit for too long, so it’s a good idea to give your shutters regular workouts to keep them working smoothly. It sucks, but it helps avoid sticky shutters, which cause ruined photos and expensive servicing. I try to fire each of my shutters about 20 times on every speed (30 on the slower speeds I don’t use that much) once a month or so.
Today is my shutter workout day, lucky me!
Make some pinhole photos, pick your best one, and upload it to the WPPD gallery (free)!
Don’t have a pinhole camera? No problem! There are workshops and exhibits of pinhole photography all over the world today where you can build or use one, check the events listings for your area.
If there’s nothing near you, grab the free plans for one of these paper cut-out do-it-yourself 35mm pinhole cameras:
Nick Dvoracek‘s Populist (PDF link).
You can also make your own pinhole and mount it into a drilled-out body cap and use it on your film or digital SLR or rangefinder.
Happy shooting!
Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city’s sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as "modern sculpture".
But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.
Continue reading at the Guardian
This is worth a read, it’s short and makes a number of good points [that you’d think are painfully obvious, but apparently still need to be made… over and over and over again].
Via GRINZ
This monster, that looks like it’s at least a foot across, can be yours for the low price of $35,370 USD! Check out the photos on the eBay Germany listing.
Thanks to Seth O for the heads up!
If you ever wondered what film looks like when abused with aftershave, hot sauce, lemon juice, gin, swimming pool water, or a wide variety of household cleaners, check out Thomas Anderson‘s amazing Experiments and Mistakes gallery on Flickr.
You can see more of Anderson’s work and experiments here on Flickr and at his blog, photodu.de.
View gallery on Flickr.
This 16-clip clothes hanger from Ikea is great for hanging film up to dry. It has built-in clips that don’t slide, is heavy enough to stay balanced, and is flippin’ cheap.
Jabba clothes hanger, $4.99 USD.
And it kind of looks like the Nanerpus:
The company that makes Holgas, Universal Electronics, finally launched an official web site, holgainspire.com.
holgablog "managed to grab an interview with Christine So, Public Relations Co-ordinator at Holga Inspire to find out the background to the new venture, and finally lift the mask on a company that has kept out of the limelight for so long…"
Read the interview at holgablog