Low Tech Wonders - A Little Fun with the FPP Debonair

Sometimes I just want to have a little photographic fun. I want to drop all pretense and concern about the technical aspects of photography, and shoot. I suppose I still (kind of) think about composition, but that's about all I control when I shoot my "Debonair" 6x4.5 medium format toy camera from the Film Photography Project (FPP).

 

(Click Here) to check out the awesome Debonair, a <$20 real film real toy camera on the FPP website.

 

Here are some shots I took on an outing to a local farm to pick strawberries with my family last year (it took a while to finish the roll and send it off to The Darkroom).

 

All of these were shot on expired Konica Centurian film, which judging by the name should be good for 100 years, right? I love the vignetting you get with the cheap plastic lens. It's actually kind of sharp in the center, but that falls away very quickly. Theses are pretty much out-of-camera scans, with only cropping in Lightroom.

 

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Another Parallel Image Moment - On the Farm

Image Source: http://www.mu-43.com/f43/gx1-20mm-farm-41374/

 

 

juangrande posted some images "on the farm," shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 and Lumix 20mm f1.7 lens. I like what he posted.

 

(Click Here) to see all three of juangrande's images on mu-43.com

 

So what's the parallel? Well, if you saw my recent post of what I'm calling parallel images of circus horses (Click Here), you may or may not appreciate this.

 

Here's a shot I took last summer as part of a film challenge, while I was visiting family in Oklahoma:

 

On the Farm, by Reed A. George

Leica CL

 

Do you see a resemblance? Of course, these irrigation systems are interesting to look at. But, it's not like cats or kids - you don't see pictures of them every day.

 

Maybe I need to get some original conceptual ideas...

 

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Lumix and Manual Focus Nikkor Lens - Scottish Highlands Cattle

 

Scottish Highlands Cattle, by Reed A. George

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Nikkor 28mm f2.8 AIS Lens

iso 200, f2.8, 1/500 sec

 
The hotel I stayed in for my conference in New Hampshire has a farm attached to it. Mostly for the enjoyment of the guests, they have horses, sheep, and chickens. The most interesting animals on the farm are these Scottish Highlands Cattle, also known as "kyloe" in Scotland. These cattle are adapted to survive extreme cold, with little to forage on.
 
I'm sure the New Hampshire winters allow them to keep up their strength in this area.
 
I enjoyed walking the farm on a lunchtime break from the meeting, and getting to know these guys. The Nikkor 28mm was a good choice for the experience. It reminded just how well manual focus works on the G3, especially with the magnification in the finder, which is achieved by pressing the rear control dial inward.
 
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With the body currently priced at less than $350 on Amazon, I can't think of a more capable modern camera for the money.
 
 
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