Scene from a pawn shop:

INDI: ".... a fully manual option for the shutter and aperture or else I really can't do anything with it."
BLEU: "You do realize you're talking Chinese to me right now, right?"
INDI: "Ni hao, meimei. That's Chinese ( Read more... )

Indi: "Know that big eight millimeter video camera I have? The manual one?"
Colby: "Yeah?"
Indi: "Other than shooting movies, what else d'you think I could do with it?"
Colby: "Use it as a weapon?"
Indi: " Yeah. What else?"
Colby: "A doorstop!"

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Got my 120 rollfilm back today, from the test run with the Agfa Synchro-Box. It came out gooooood. They put this neat little plastic sleeve on the negs, and then rolled it up and put it ass-end into a film canister. Looks like there's space for nine exposures on the roll, not seven. There are no light leaks whatsoever. The camera does need ( Read more... )

The junkshop was calling, so I went. Sniffed around in the back shelf that houses a million lost lenses and flash attachments and found....

This beautyIt has two shutter speeds, B and something like 1/30, mounts for tripod and cable release, a pull-out tab featuring two differently sized 'apertures' and a yellow filter, the lens is deep within ( Read more... )