Been hearing that word a lot, and I find it fascinating. A word created and solely intended to bypass a filter is now widely used as more things are being more aggressively unalived. I wonder why the people that wrote the filters don’t just add “unalived” to the filter? They don’t, though. That probably is […]
Category: Thrift Store Photo Gear
CotM: Fotography at Forty-Five Miles Per Hour!
And in the evening as the drizzly overcast set in, just a quick “not-so-still-life” of CARS and SPOOKY, ABANDONED(?) HOSPITAL in auto mode in not especially menacing light at all. We’ll call it a baseline for the series after that wacky black & white start last night. There are other narratives in the frame to […]
CotM: Let’s Play with Color – or Get Rid of it Altogether!
And as the evening sinks into night, I set the Powershot out on the railing and made a bunch of exposures as cars came by and the sun sank below the mountains. The old hospital at a very Dutch angle with the camera’s sensor struggling to suck light at its highest, noisiest ISO and the […]
CotM: Some Things I Can See From Here
CotM: Canon Powershot SX10 IS Audio Test
First recording, Auto Level Control left on. Second recording with sound levels set manually.
CotM: Smile! You’re on Camera! :D
Yep, this one was sort of a “happy accident” as Bob Ross might say. There are no mistakes, only unintentional inspiration. :D
CotM: A drizzly summer morning in Nutmegger territory shot on a 2007 Canon Powershot SX-10 IS
A drizzly summer morning in Nutmegger territory shot on a 2007 Canon Powershot SX-10 IS during Camera of the Month. Local semi-stray cat and color commentary in LIVING STEREO! Let’s re-live 720p like a real turn-of-the-Centurion! :D The front-facing stereo mics are not bad at all, and while they do pick up the sound of […]
Signs & Portents: Up off the Porch, You Porch Zoomer!
Thrifted Camera Of The Month: Good Sunday Morning – The $24 Canon Powershot SX10 IS Arrives!
“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Hell Is A Cell Phone Camera
“Dostoevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs.” Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK)for Canon Powershot SX10 IS God, can’t even take a good pic of a DVD box with this stupid cell camera…
The transition from thriftin’ typewriters to thriftin’ teenaged digital cameras and laptops
2005 HP Pavilion DV4307cl 1.73 GHz Pentium M 1gb DDR2 800MHz SDRAM, 60gb IDE HD, 1280×800 15.4″ WXGA screen Intel GMA 900 128mb shared My Cost: $7, Mesa Thrift Store 2007 HP/Compaq 6715b 2.2 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 4gb DDR2 SDRAM, 120gb SSD, 1680×1050 15.4″ WXGA screen ATI Radeon X1250 My Cost: Free, […]
UJTU: More Temporal Compression
Currently in the earholes:
Canon Powershot S3is – It’s full of ACID and Error E24, can I fix it?
Welp, I figured this $5 Powershot S3is from 2006 was sold as “Parts” due to the Goodwill not knowing that it took AA batteries. The notes on the listing said the store “couldn’t figure out how to charge it”, so it seemed like a good bet. Today it came in the mail, and I was […]
Why Timelapses?
The current Corral of CHDK capable Canon Powershots, soon to be +1. Typecast typed during: Typewriter Club Live: 2023-06-11 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call from Guth, Thrifin’ Finds and a test timelapse from the Powershot A410 & CHDK
***Sadly, Youtube’s compression blows away all of the pretty stars and satellites in the video. I suspect that rendering it down to DVD resolution will do worse. Still, the full-resolution video looks GREAT! :P *** Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Well, I guess I’m making DVD Episodes now :D
Thanks Gregory! I was actually compiling timelapses today when this showed up. (: I had dug up the original source images for timelapses done between 1999 and 2009 and recompiled them into fresh videos. There’s one that spans a solid month – 48,259 frames rendered at 30 frames per second compressed down to almost 27 […]
1971 Sears T.L.S – My Favorite All-Manual, All-Metal Brick Camera
Weapon of Choice: 1971 Sears T.L.S (Ricoh Singlex TLS) (M42 mount) #265613 The Sears T.L.S was a camera I had read about before finding one at the local Deseret thrift store for the standard $10 that they were charging for SLRs back a few years ago. Very well spoken of for the rock-solid metal Copal […]
The Travelling Typewriter
Leoben Sez “Hey, stop typing and pet me!” Weapon of Choice: 1972 Royal Mercury. New traveling typewriter case on the shelf, ready to go! Cleaning out the “e” slug with a Spyderco Endura. Franklin-Covey typewriter satchel $2, Canon A-710 IS camera and holster $6. Not a bad thrifting day at all. Add in the $10 […]
Weird Picture-Taker: Vtech Phusion toy PDA from the year 2000
Me, like in 2006 maybe? No datestamping on the Phusion, but that’s about the right year, I think. Upsampled from the Phusion’s original 120×160 bitmap about 12 years after I took the selfie. One of the benefits of not having a car is that I now finally get to go through boxes in the garage […]
The RedCam
Ahh, memories.. This process of pulling out old band videotapes to put up on my YouTube account is hella risky in this chaos-soaked environment, and I shoulda known it. It kicks up the ghosts that call on you to remember so many things that were safely buried in time. Hell, they even coalesce into reality […]
A Totally Oly Week – a 1962 Olympus PEN-EE.S to go with my 1957 Olympia SM3
Yep, put this on my Thrift Gods Wishlist on Feb 15, 2014.
My try at lumen prints
Heh, it’s tough for me to follow Joe’s blog without being inspired to do stuff, and of course, the idea of Lumen Prints, basically using normal photo print paper as film and sensitizing it with tapwater, certainly appealed to me as a quick evening lark. I happen to have all the basic materials handy: One […]
Photography Upon Wood: 1887 Scientific American Method
Surly Chicken Farms at longer than 720 nanometers: Sony DSC-F707
Polaroids: 10 Years Expired
I found a pack of Polaroid 600 film the other day at Deseret, and having had no luck getting a vintage 1981 pack I found some time ago to work, I was only mildly hopeful that this pack, which expired in 2005 might actually work. I dug up my One Step Flash and tried it […]
Camera of the Week: Fujica AX-3
When Key Snap texted me asking if I wanted a couple grab bags of random camera stuff that someone had just gifted to him, I of course jumped at it. A free camera to play with? Yes, please! (: When the contents of the bags were sorted, I found I had a nice 80-200mm zoom […]
Timing is Everything in Thrifting: $3 Canon Canonet QL17
Grandad’s Little Pony (135)
1971 Royal Sprite, built by Silver Seiko in Japan. Joe in his later civilian years, selling Skampers to Yankees. Grandad’s Kodak Pony 135 and a Gossen Pilot light meter (The Pony has *no* light metering) The Pony 135 is a simple, all-mechanical “zone focus” camera (the viewfinder has no focusing/rangefinding aids), made mostly of Bakelite […]
The Typewriter Database: 2000+ Galleries reached, Remington Portables and a Nikon FE for $15
Wordless Wednesday: A trip to Bill’s
The Week In Thriftin’ – North Goodwill Learns Thier Lesson!
Pinhole Camera Day: Better Late Than Never!
The Process
I needed to run a test film roll through the Canonet 28 on Saturday to test for light leaks and make sure the exposure was working right, and while I was at it, might as well shoot some 3D squigglies with the Nishika N8000 so I’d have 2 rolls to develop. That meant rolling up […]
1970’s Canon Canonet 28 Rangefinder in the $2 Camera Bin…
I did all the testing I could without a battery in the store, and knew it needed new light seals. Everything else worked fine in it’s manual modes. When I got it home, though, a fresh battery wouldn’t kick on the light meter or make the camera work in it’s primary “auto” modes. I did […]
Passing Up The SM-3 for a Nishika N8000 Makes the Gnome Dance!
Well, ok, do you guys remember this post a couple of months ago, where I passed up an overpriced Nishika 3D camera in the glass case and was rewarded with a cheap Royal Model O typewriter in the electronics aisle? Well, the exact reverse happened to me at that same Goodwill today: I passed up […]