The Anscoflex II seems to be a pretty popular “toy” TLR, due to the huge viewfinder and spiffy design. Lots of reviews and posts in photo blogs: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ansco_Anscoflex https://sites.google.com/site/contraptionsinphoto/ansco-anscoflex-ii http://danielleruth.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/anscoflex-ii/ http://westfordcomp.com/foundfilm/anscoflex/ http://junkstorecameras.com/anscoflex.htm http://connealy.blogspot.com/2012/08/anscoflex-ii.html http://mwpfilm.blogspot.com/2011/03/anscoflex-ii.html http://phil-are-go.blogspot.com/2010/02/anscoflex-camera-hideously-beautiful.html http://shootfilmridesteel.com/?p=133 http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/cameras/tlrs/23601_Anscoflex2.html http://malcolmchalmersphotography.weebly.com/2/post/2014/01/anscoflex-built-to-last.html http://tazmpictures.com/site/?p=2468 These pages review the Anscoflex II and mentions an interesting technique where you shoot pictures with […]
Oh yeah, and I Updated the Look of the Blog too..
Adventures of the Typospigeon: Part 1
A-well-a, everybody’s heard about the bird. Bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word.
The Typospigeon’s first stop
The Ballad of the Second $2 Garmin GPS
Fun links for infos: The Garmin Nuvi 1450 LMT at Garmin.com Nuvi 1450 Manual GPS Insight, a fleet tracking service Nick Beland’s post showing off his typewriter artwork rubber stamps
Fun with Atomic-Age Electro 35
The TWDB so far, Visualized in Tableau
Ok, well this trend of making nifty circle charts out of your collection data seems to have caught fire, and you guys know how I am about jumping on the latest Typospherian trend, so here you go: Learn About Tableau This is a chart showing the best-represented manufacturers in all the gallery entries of the […]
A Steampunk DJ Desk, Adventures in GPS Hacking and a Pen & Ink report
Sears Medalist and Electric Power 12 – Owner’s Manual – 1968
Click to enbiggify.
Sears Power Return Electric 10 and Celebrity Power 12 Typewriters – Owner’s Manual – 1968
New Print-Friendliness at the Typewriter Database, plus recent finds.
Good Bones – 1948 Underwood Champion
Collexion – What is it, and should we become early adopters?
Some of you may have heard about Collexion, a new collectors website that appears to have a fairly well-financed venture into being the “Facebook” for collectors. The CEO of the company is a typewriter collector and they’re making a pretty big push to interest the typewriter collecting community in becoming early adopters of their platform […]
TW-DB.com alive or dead?
I caught a conversation on the Yahoo Portable Typewriter forum where a few members noted that the old Typewriter Database site appears to have gone down a couple of days ago. It prompted me to do a little digging to find out what I could about the status of the site, and I’m copying my […]
UJTU: Parker Pen, Marantz PMD and Johnny Depp Be Damned, I should be the next Kolchak!
From the $3.99 Bag-O-Fountain Pens: 1960’s Platignum “Silverline”
Other stuff I photographed today, which is why my good camera is at the Press Room right now. :P
Thrift store Gods provide inky goodness, and the Ghosts of The Past.
Here’s the links: http://www.pnas.org/content/95/26/15861.full http://www.google.com/patents/US3951134
No tear gas cannister or throwing knives, but…
I’ve been on the lookout for a nice attache case with a blotter/writing desk section built in for awhile, they’re somewhat rarer in the thrifts than I expected them to be – but persistence pays: The bottom part has an expandable accordion section, so while a Hermes Rocket/Empire Aristocrat will fit when it’s set at […]
Found Film: Murder, through the Eye of The Owl
I’ve been picking up cheap $2 35mm point-n-shoot cameras at the thrifts lately, but only ones that already have film loaded in them. Most only have a few frames shot – those I will generally re-roll and re-shoot, double-exposing those few frames in a dice roll to see if I can get something interesting to […]
Jackalopes, Yashica Electro 35 G and Ink Sacs & Shellac
I’ve been on the lookout for a couple of specific Rangefinder cameras lately: specifically an Olympus PEN half-frame 35mm (NotAgain has one, it’s a fantastically tiny and handy), and a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder. Today I found one for lunch money in practically factory-new condition at Goodwill. I about fell over when I saw it […]
Pencast 2: New feature at the Typewriter Database
Pencast: 1950’s Esterbrook J “Double Jewel” Fountain Pen
http://www.esterbrook.net/j3.shtml http://www.richardspens.com/ref/repair/sac_replacement.htm http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/84932-how-to-clean-a-fountain-pen-fully/
ITAM is shaping up to be Royally Awesome!
Buddy-L Easy-Writer 300
note the forward-leaning exclamation mark not only prints that way, but is painted on the keytop that way. weird. Includes a “1” since there is no lower-case “l”. See this thing @ the Typewriter Database.
A frenzy…
The News from the North
This typecast was written Tuesday, and since then I’ve been inundated with raw scans and a spreadsheet put together by TypesHalfSpaces. A vertitable treasure trove of information on the RaRo type foundry, which I have not had time yet to process. However, look for a big reveal on Georg Sommeregger’s blog soonish regarding the RaRo […]
Oh, good Jebus, what have I gotten myself into?
Airstrikes, Photography and Babies. an UJTU
Links to fun stuff: CHDK – The Canon Hacks Development Kit.
Guest Post: Restoring an IBM Selectric Composer – By ProfessorC
This is a story that you may have come across either in the Yahoo GolfBallTypewriter forum or if you happened to check out the Typewriter Database entry on this particular machine, but the Professor and I felt the story needed fleshing out – the sort of report that works well in the TypeCast format. I […]
Sweat, Gold and the Olivetti Ribbon Cover Exchange Chain…
The birth of the Olivetti Ribbon Cover Exchange Chain… Mr. Messenger’s blaze of heatstricken posting continues unabated… Mr. Petersen’s soon-to-not-be-lidless Olivetti Lettera 32…
Six Dollah Smith-Corona Corsair cleans up real nice!
Caffenol-C/C-41: Rolls 11 & 12 – Pushed development
On the advice of Notagain yesterday, I looked up what “push processing” was and simply enough it means “develop it longer”, which is a developing technique that allows you to fix underexposed negatives in development. Well, OK then. I shot a couple test rolls on the Nikon at 100ISO (using 400ISO C-41 film expired 9-2001) […]
Caffenol-C/C-41 project: 10 rolls in…
Caffenol-C/C-41 test #1 (success!)
Finally got my Paterson Universal developing tank in the mail today, and so I embarked upon developing my very first roll of film since about 1988. Just to make things interesting and cheap, I had prepared by obtaining 70 some-odd rolls of various C-41 process color print film that were well past their expiration date. […]