Brownie Vecta

I recently bought a 1960's Brownie Vecta camera from a carboot and found that I was able to get hold of some old 127 format film for it, so decided to give it a go and see if it still worked. I messed up a bit loading the film, so I think it's my fault that the first few photos didn't turn out, but some of them came out better than I had expected!

The camera has no settings what so ever. No focus or shutter speeds to play around with so it was literally a case of pointing and shooting and hoping for the best. It's crazy how much cameras have come on, with the super digital SLR cameras of today, but I don't think you can beat the simplicity and uncertainty of playing around with an uncomplicated film camera. Here are my results:

Spooky picture of a den in the woods.

Picturesque Church

My sister, Bette on Toast

Flowers in the garden

I have absolutely no idea what this is.

I bought my film, and got it developed at Plastic Magpie Camera Club.

Sung Yeon Ju

Amazing clothing by Sung Yeon Ju, made out of food!
So much better than Lady Gaga's meat dress.

White Raddish

Aubergine

Tomato

Bubblegum (this one is my favourite)

Bread

IKEA Cookbook

I really like IKEA, and I quite like cookbooks, so it pleases me that IKEA sells cookbooks, but it pleases me even more when they have really brilliant photographs inside them like these:

 

Sleepy Saturday

I'm super tired tonight, here are some nice pictures from weheartit.com

Film Photography

This post is dedicated to Nicola Semple who recently bought a beautiful Diana F+ camera and who also has been telling me that i need to update this blog more often...




Anyway, this is Nicola's camera. It is delightful and i was lucky enough to be at her house when she unwrapped it, and began to learn what it could do. We went to the park and I am jolly excited to see the results. The best thing about this camera (i think) is how experimental you can be with it. Adjusting things such as the shutter speed and colour splash and celebrating the quirky imperfections that show through in your photographs.

I was very tempted to bite the bullet and buy myself one, but alas, i have a draw of 7 film cameras that barely get used, so i trawled the internet looking for new things to do, and i came across a flickr group called film destroyers.

I currently have an old (possibly expired) film soaking in a glass of lemon juice, which i hope will produce strange colour effects such as this: