Photo Project
In an effort to actually participate, I’m formally announcing here that I’m going to participate in Brian Auer’s latest photo project – The $50 film camera. Since the Fujica camera I got earlier this year had the shutter freeze on it and the Mayima has major issues with the focusing system, I recently set out to pick up a new film camera.
My brother is an art professor and turned me on to the Pentax K1000 (pictured), which I just picked up off of eBay for $46 (plus shipping, which put it over the $50 mark, but I’m not counting the shipping.)
The project basically has a few concepts:
- Find a film camera for under $50 (check)
- Shoot some film with the camera (in-progress)
- Write a review of the camera
- Publish a photo of the camera
- Publish an entire roll of photo (including the duds)
- Submit a link to all of the above on Brian’s blog here
- Do it by September 12, 2008
The project has a couple prizes attached, namely a Diana+ camera from Lomography and a whole punch of Ilford film. I’ve got a roll of Velvia in the camera already and have taken a few frames with it. The last time I shot some film I took forever to develop it, so hopefully this gives me some impetus to move quickly.
If you want to participate, you can check out the full details on Epic Edits.
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This actually sounds pretty cool. Though my photo ability is even worse than my gardening ability, I am definitely interested in seeing what others turn out. Looks like I will be checking out Brians blog!
There’s lot of good old cameras out there. Why not get a few more (warning, warning – it can become an addiction)?
The russians with theyr Zenits are nice. And why not the Yashicas with there wonderful ML-lenses. If you keep an eye out for Praskticas you might find some with a hidden Zeiss-lens for a couple of dollars (my wonderful Zeiss Sonnar 135mm cost me about $15). Good luck, I will also give it a try 
Yeah, I have to resist. I’m happy to have a functioning film camera again. I still would like to find a cheap 120 camera, so winning the Diana would be nice.
[...] I took a few shots of my new camera as part of a photo project. This is a Pentax K1000 – 100% manual 35mm camera. I’ll be writing up a review of it and posting an entire roll of film shot with it. For more information see <a href=”http://hirlpoo.com/photo-project_417/”>here</a>. [...]
Derek: my spelling seemed a bit of yesterday, sorry
Anyhow, I got an Agfa Isolette V (120-format). But it would be fun with a bit more modern one. The old bellow / fold-cameras are so hard to use, I’ve taken 2 rolls so far but I really don’t know at all if I got the right focus. Probably all pictures will be doubleexposed blur 
That was my issue with the Mayima Press 23. It’s a rangefinder, so I had to trust the focus mechanism, which when I got the two rolls back I found out was not working right. I’d have understood if it was one or two frames were bad, but every one was consistently out of focus. Probably the only thing I could do is pick up a ground glass back for it, which would have the benefit of being able to use the tilt and shift functionality.
[...] other good news is I finished the first roll of film in the K1000. I just need to get it processed and [...]
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