Censorship

You will not see it often in my photographs, but sometimes there is censorship

;)

Panoramator - The story continues 2

But with special adjustments, additional isolation, indoors, for one film only, there were some good results

Forgot to mention that laser drilled 0.4 mm pinholes were used for the camera, but the construction was supposed to handle even self made pinholes, with special pinhole mount for easy replacement.

The page was created to promote the camera and even some pre-order requests were received from friends.
http://panoramator.net/

Some parameters of the construction:
Image size: 6x18cm
Works with: roll film 120 (4 shots per film)
Pinhole size: 400 micron
Focal lenght: 80mm
Sunny Day Exposure (iso100): 2sec.

Still things were far from good, changes and improvements had to be made...

(to be continued)

Panoramator - The story continues

The results of the tests were not bright

The light leaks were still there, the rewind mechanism was still not reliable and was breaking often, parts had to be changed on the fly.

Here are some shots from the outdoor tests

As you can see, the project was far from ready

(to be continued)

Panoramator - The story begins

I had an idea to create a pinhole camera that does not have vignetting and distortion towards the edges, this camera was supposed to use roll film and make 6x18cm pictures. The name came with the idea - Panoramator.

First one was made of wood

There were many flaws in the design and the results were not promising

Light leaks, too much tension on the film when advancing to the next slide, no idea how much the film did advance, etc.

Then I decided to make it from plastic, to change the rewind mechanism, add small window on the back of the camera to track the numbers on paper side of the roll film, added shutter on the front, tripod mount on the bottom, increase the robustness of  the construction by adding additional layer, this reduced the possibility of light leaks, and many other things.

This was the result 2

Even second version was produced and exterior improved

The tests started...

(to be continued)

Camera vs me

Here is as promised the intended shot vs idea of my low on battery camera

I think this one was flipped horizontally during scan, not that it matters.

The shot is made in the garden near Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, France

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Teasing crops 2

Here is another one of the teasing crops, will post some more of these on later stage

Teasing crops

Teasing crops are - crops of unsuccessful photographs during the years, will put just details and leave the rest for your imagination

As promised

As promised, here is the view from the kitchen window to the Eiffel tower, again on a rainy day. You can also see the Christmas lights on the boulevard. Picture is taken in 2011.

Two pictures from Vilnius, Lithuania

I made a trip to Vilnius in august 2012 and spent some time shooting the streets. Couldn't catch nothing interesting, but here you go, two shots on a small street in the old town.

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Had fun with canonet camera

A friend gave me Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII camera to have some fun some time ago. I shot 2 expired color films with it and will show you some of them here.

Made this one from a car at 50 km/h on our trip to Vidin, Bulgaria some years ago.

Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 or 2011

Central part of Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 or 2011, demolished building

Another photo from Smolyan

Forgot to add this one

Stefy with her camera in the forest near the lakes of Smolyan.

You can check her photo blog here

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Pictures from Smolyan

Long story short - made some pictures on our trip with friends to Smolyan, was to lazy to develop them myself, gave them for development in a photo shop/lab in Sofia... You'll see the results.

They are made with my camera Mamiya RZ 67 Pro II - and there are no light leaks and never were. The ones of you that know this camera brand and model, sure know what I'm talking about.

Still you can see the city of Smolyan, (Bulgaria) not only the light leaks.

Link to the facebook page

Probably you got this blog from the facebook page, but just in case here is the link.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/urbangrey-photography/460609467309031

You can find there some of my photographs, the ones I don't publish here

Best post for Christmas

What's best to post on Christmas day? Should I post at all... - these were the questions in my head

And when I saw that picture I knew I want to post it on Christmas day.

Picture of my grandmother, I took in summer of 2012, she came back from her garden with mud all over on her clothes  and fresh tomatoes in her hands, it was raining all morning.

I felt that I have to take picture at this moment, as I know how much she loves her garden.

With her we all feel at home no matter where we are.

Beeping sound of the battery

Beeping sound of the battery is something I often ignore or just don't have replacement battery with me. The camera I use is Mamiya RZ67 Pro II, the battery lasts very long time, probably around one year. So here are 2 pictures made by the camera, not by me ;)

This is in Normandie, I'll post some pictures from there later. You can tell it was cold, but what do you expect in December. (2011)

This one is shot in Paris, don't remember when, but I think it was in a small garden in front of the Louvre, people on a bench with Eiffel tower in background. Well the camera wanted something else to show. This time I had a spare battery and I replaced it. Then I made the shot, it was nothing special, the camera made more artistic and interesting photograph in my opinion. Will upload the original shot at some point here.

BTW the camera has the RB mode and you can use it without battery, but as they say in one funny advertisement with Uma Thurman - "Hey! What did you expect ?"

P.S. I think you'd like the video here

Let's start

Let's start from home

This is a unsuccessful photograph made almost one year ago from my kitchen window, on a rainy day with some skyscrapers of La Défense.

The view on the other side probably is better, will try to show it here on the blog at some point.