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·So I mostly like to shoot 3d photographs. As I have a Stereo Realist.
These I had transferred to photo CD in the 1990s. Back in 2020 I found the remains of a PhotoCD film scanner. Then set about reverse engineering the driver software to work on modern hardware. This is a project unto itself. In theory I use my old vanity website delectra.com to blog about that sort of thing.
Somehow I found my way to the local e-Waste recycler. They had a Cannon FD lens in the bins with the old cameras. I wanted to shoot some calibration tests for the PCD scanner. Of course in doing this one of my blog readers found some calibration strips. 2USD is not bad for an old vintage lens.
The bins also contained a bunch of old film cameras. Some of them I could not get the film out. I took one to a photofinisher who told me about APS film cameras. That film has not been sold since 2011. I had the film processed anyway. It was someones trip to a fancy church or cathedral.
This inspired me to take one of the APS cameras to Switzerland. (Another subject unto itself.) APS is something worse than Photo CD. Together these caused Kodak to crash and burn, then go bankrupt. The camera I wanted to take was a weird digital film hybrid that would preview the shot after the film was exposed. This camera was less than 10USD on goodwill auctions. The results were mixed as two of the expired rolls were bad. Will have to wait for the photoCD restoration to see what I really got.
I think the auction house do slow shipping so one will buy more stuff while waiting. There were interchangeable lens film cameras that used APS film. The frame size is the same 16x9 cine format, but exposed horizontally on a 24mm strip with magnetic coatings. Probably a failed attempt to replicate VistaVision but with the same area as 35mm Again this is academic for the subject at hand.
Such cameras are cheap. Less than 20USD. There is no film for them (exept expired.) On the other hand APS became a popular digital sensor size. (Probably for the cine cameras) I snagged a digital Rebel XTi off goodwill for around 54USD. Older 10mp or so. But my 90 year old dad claimed it for his own. He had a nice cannon POS, which he paid over 600USD for. Ironic as the POS cameras now are scrapped at 2USD.
I also got a Nikon film APS, but those lenses have short focal lengths. On the other hand I started looking for lenses online. We have decent views in our back yard. A county office building built in the brutalist architecture, is being taken down.
Since my dad claimed the XTi I started looking for another on eBay and goodwill. Surprisingly I found an 18mp EOSm with the description. "does not power on." I got this one also for around 52USD (plus all the ebay overhead.) Got a new battery, charged it. Then did the deep sleep reset from the manual. Camera has been working great, And I have more time for re learning how to service watches.
Always read the manual, before dumping a perfectly good camera on eBay.
It was actually you tube lens restoration videos which lead me to OF. This in turn has lead to my re interest in my watches. I have not been getting decent closeups of watches with the lenses I have, But they seem to be working great as telephoto lenses photographing the river at two miles distant. I wanted to get a shot of a ship passing behind the skeleton of the county building. I notice though that the coms antennae which point to our hill. are taking their time to come down.
I also learned OF has a 20mb upload limit, Still the results are pretty decent. This was with a 75-300mm zoom that has no macro whatsoever. Note the in gravestones in the cemetery at the center top. The name of that town is Benicia, and was once the capitol of the State of California. The old capitol building still exists.
-j
These I had transferred to photo CD in the 1990s. Back in 2020 I found the remains of a PhotoCD film scanner. Then set about reverse engineering the driver software to work on modern hardware. This is a project unto itself. In theory I use my old vanity website delectra.com to blog about that sort of thing.
Somehow I found my way to the local e-Waste recycler. They had a Cannon FD lens in the bins with the old cameras. I wanted to shoot some calibration tests for the PCD scanner. Of course in doing this one of my blog readers found some calibration strips. 2USD is not bad for an old vintage lens.
The bins also contained a bunch of old film cameras. Some of them I could not get the film out. I took one to a photofinisher who told me about APS film cameras. That film has not been sold since 2011. I had the film processed anyway. It was someones trip to a fancy church or cathedral.
This inspired me to take one of the APS cameras to Switzerland. (Another subject unto itself.) APS is something worse than Photo CD. Together these caused Kodak to crash and burn, then go bankrupt. The camera I wanted to take was a weird digital film hybrid that would preview the shot after the film was exposed. This camera was less than 10USD on goodwill auctions. The results were mixed as two of the expired rolls were bad. Will have to wait for the photoCD restoration to see what I really got.
I think the auction house do slow shipping so one will buy more stuff while waiting. There were interchangeable lens film cameras that used APS film. The frame size is the same 16x9 cine format, but exposed horizontally on a 24mm strip with magnetic coatings. Probably a failed attempt to replicate VistaVision but with the same area as 35mm Again this is academic for the subject at hand.
Such cameras are cheap. Less than 20USD. There is no film for them (exept expired.) On the other hand APS became a popular digital sensor size. (Probably for the cine cameras) I snagged a digital Rebel XTi off goodwill for around 54USD. Older 10mp or so. But my 90 year old dad claimed it for his own. He had a nice cannon POS, which he paid over 600USD for. Ironic as the POS cameras now are scrapped at 2USD.
I also got a Nikon film APS, but those lenses have short focal lengths. On the other hand I started looking for lenses online. We have decent views in our back yard. A county office building built in the brutalist architecture, is being taken down.
Since my dad claimed the XTi I started looking for another on eBay and goodwill. Surprisingly I found an 18mp EOSm with the description. "does not power on." I got this one also for around 52USD (plus all the ebay overhead.) Got a new battery, charged it. Then did the deep sleep reset from the manual. Camera has been working great, And I have more time for re learning how to service watches.
Always read the manual, before dumping a perfectly good camera on eBay.
It was actually you tube lens restoration videos which lead me to OF. This in turn has lead to my re interest in my watches. I have not been getting decent closeups of watches with the lenses I have, But they seem to be working great as telephoto lenses photographing the river at two miles distant. I wanted to get a shot of a ship passing behind the skeleton of the county building. I notice though that the coms antennae which point to our hill. are taking their time to come down.
I also learned OF has a 20mb upload limit, Still the results are pretty decent. This was with a 75-300mm zoom that has no macro whatsoever. Note the in gravestones in the cemetery at the center top. The name of that town is Benicia, and was once the capitol of the State of California. The old capitol building still exists.
-j
