Film Photography Podcast – Episode 117 – January 15, 2015
The internet radio show for people who love to shoot film! Tips Shooting in the Cold! Suspersense 66/6 Instant Pinhole Camera! Miranda Sensomat RE SLR! Book of the Month! Lots More!
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Show Notes
Film Photography Podcast – Episode 117 – January 15th, 2015
Show Notes By: Alex Luyckx
It’s a winter wonderland out there and we’re back on the air! Joining Michael Raso in studio today is Leslie Lazenby, Mat Marrash, and Mark Dalzell. Topics on the show include: 2014 Inspirations, Beating the Winter Blues, Shooting in the Cold, the Supersense 66/6, Miranda Sensomat RE, Book of the Month, Polaroid Big Swinger, and so much more!
Walking Workshop 2015 – Register Today!
Breaking News! This year’s Walking Workshop will be March 14th and 15th, 2015 in Sunny San Clemente hosted by none other than The Darkroom! Yes, you finally get to see behind the magic on the FPP’s favorite film lab, The Darkroom! We already have over forty people signed up so head over to the page and sign up today (it’s free)! Visit: www.filmphotographyproject.com/fpp-walking-workshop-2015-march-14-be-there
Walking Workshop 2015 – Register Today!
Breaking News! This year’s Walking Workshop will be March 14th and 15th, 2015 in Sunny San Clemente hosted by none other than The Darkroom! Yes, you finally get to see behind the magic on the FPP’s favorite film lab, The Darkroom! We already have over forty people signed up so head over to the page and sign up today (it’s free)! Visit: www.filmphotographyproject.com/fpp-walking-workshop-2015-march-14-be-there
What Inspired you through 2014
There’s no kidding…2014 was a great year and there’s a thread on our flickr group that invites you to share what inspired you over the year! From new film stocks, processes, camera repairs and new love affairs! You can read through the whole thread here, and why not add some of your own!
Beating those Winter Blues
It’s a topic that comes up every year, what to do with those darned winter blues when you don’t feel inspired to shoot? While we’ve had two blogs on the subject (Get Outta the Funk and Beat the Winter Blues), the group offers some new suggestions. Mat suggests to get into that darkroom and print some work! Mark has no troubles because he’s constantly out there shooting. Leslie suggests going back to an old favourite camera.
Keeping Warm out there.
While it’s easy for us to bundle up, it’s a bit harder to keep the cameras warm out there – so what do you do? Well, the first and weak point of any camera that requires electricity to work is the battery. Mat says to keep some spares on you and keep them close to your body to keep them warm. Even the mechanical cameras can start to suffer from shutter lag, or in the case of Mark’s Ricoh, seize up completely in these sub-zero temperatures.
Pinhole and Impossible
Leslie has brought in a curious camera, is it a pinhole or is it a Polaroid? Well it’s both, the Supersense 66/6 is the brainchild of Austrian company Supersense and Doctor Florian Kaps (one of the men behind the Impossible Project). This well-crafted camera uses rubber bellows to adjust the focal length and has two different sized pinholes and at the heart the Impossible Project Film Processing Unit (FPU) which they developed for their Instant Lab product. As the presence of the FPU implies, this is designed to work with the 600 series of Impossible Films, both colour and black & white. Power? The camera has a rechargeable battery that charges off a USB connection. As for the camera use, Leslie is at first a little wary of being tied to her smartphone. The company suggests downloading the Pocket Light meter App, then doing a bunch of math, timers, which brings into play Reciprocity. What is reciprocity Michael asks, at its base, this is the fact that film loses sensitivity to light the longer it’s been exposed to light (you can read a full description here). With all that Leslie was not having an easy time, but then one day she just felt lucky, and ditched the tech and went with her head, and everything fell into place. It’s just another reminder that every camera has its own little quirks and you need to sometimes just trust the force, and take time to learn it.
The Tempest
Mark has a new camera to show off as well, the Miranda Sensomat RE, this 1971 single lens reflex is actually pretty neat. Despite being aimed at the hobbyist market the camera featured full TTL metering that requires you to stop down the lens first, set everything, and then open it back up to shoot. This is achieved by using a button on the lens that sounds like an old Bic Click pen! The camera itself, fantastic to shoot with according to Mark who picked it up by a twist after going to buy some records. The well designed camera features both a front and top mounted shutter release, the mount you can either us Miranda bayonet lenses or certain threaded M42 mount lenses. Fully interchangeable prisms, and an external accessory shoe to cold mount a flash. And while originally designed to take a mercury battery it works great with an L44.
If you having visit the FPP YouTube channel recently, we just put up a great short film on Australian Photographer Marcus Anderson. Mat loves it (so much that he watched it twice!) It really does a good job showing what a modern film photographer should be about, not gear snobbery, but just image capture! You can watch it below, or here!
Book of the Month! The January book of the month is bought by Mat, who got an amazing book from Lauren for Christmas. From the great folks over at the George Eastman house, the title is A History of Photography from 1839 to Present. This is a great read for anyone looking to read up on the nitty gritty. While it does focus mostly on western photography and what was being done in the 1800s and early 1900s it’s still a fantastic read that features some images from the Eastman’s house archives. And if you find yourself in Rochester, give them a visit, or try one of their many workshops!
Polaroid Big Swinger! To wrap it up Michael has the Polaroid Minute! This time talking on the Polaroid Big Swinger. This camera was designed to just take the 3000 speed Type-100 pack film (crack ‘n peel). Now the only film that was available was Fuji’s FP-3000b which they canceled last year. The good news is that there’s still plenty of stock floating around and now is the time to get it. The cameras are fairly cheap these days, you can go through the FPP store or on Ebay, just make sure the seller checks to ensure there’s no corrosion in the battery compartment.
And that’s it for us, but we’ll be back in a short two weeks on February 1st! Until then, we’d love to hear from you, you can write by email: podcast@filmphotographyproject.com or send us treat and hand written letters (or darkroom prints) to: Film Photography Podcast PO Box 152 Butler, NJ, 07405 USA.
Closing off the show is the one, the only…Darren “Ballard” Riley!