our rolleiflex

We would love to introduce you to our newest addition to our family, our lovely Rolleiflex camera. This old gal is more than 60 years old and is our first medium format camera. Apparently the original owner was a reporter, who gave this camera to a friend who lived in Paris, until we bought it off them. It has been so fun playing with this camera, and we can't wait till we get some film developed and can see what she creates.
- morgan and kim

new cameras

It was hard to leave my collection of cameras in Australia, so I am very excited to have a base to call home for a while and start collecting again.



While in Orleans, I found this sweet little AGFA Silette I at a big second hand shop called Emmaus. It's super compact and light, and very easy to use. Because of this, it was one of two cameras we took to Spain and Portugal, the other camera we took was my new Voigtlander. I picked up the Voigtlander Vitoret LR at an antique market close to where we live in France. It cause me nothing but grief as the shutter kept jamming, but the few shots that turned out are really special.



Over the next few days I will share a few shots from these cameras.
-morgan

i made: camera strap

morgan and i have both been having lots of fun with our new camera. When it first arrived we started talking about what type of Camera Strap we should get. It came with the standard edition Cannon strap, we weren't real keen on using that one. After browsing heaps of Vinage ones on Etsy, I decided we could reuse the one we already had and make it our own.

I found a piece of scrap Gingam fabric I had left over from a previous project which was the perfect size needed. All I did is unpick the existing camera strap, and sow it back together with my fabric covering the top layer. This was super simple to make and exactly what we needed.




- kim

ps. Sorry for the awkward photography. Im still learning how to use the camera.

collections.. pt 1 [the cameras]

So for a while now we have collected many different little things. This can be a somewhat dangerous thing when separating collection and addiction. When it comes to our vinyl collection I am often stopped mid-way through an online purchase and ask the question by a voice within saying 'do you really need this'. But I think that a healthy collection of something beautiful (and useful) can be a marvelous thing.

Recently kim asked me to pull out all the cameras I owned, having been given four recently by friends, workmates, as well as purchased a couple online. We were both blown away by the amount and decide we needed to make a trip to the op-shop to give a couple away.

Here are my top 5:

1- My newest is a Pentax k-1000, this baby is heavy, but you can really play around with a lot of settings and I am excited to see a roll developed very soon. I recently bought a 80-210mm lens for this on eBay and am very excited to lug this thing around at the next music festival.

2- My Fujica Compact 35- this things is vin to the tage. Still waiting to get a roll developed.

3- Our Super Headz Digital Harinezumi 2++ is what we bought to shoot our own wedding, although we did not use it a lot, we got some great shots and it films like an old Super 8 but digitally great little investment and always fun to have in your bag.

4- My Palmat 40mm, this one has caused alot of pain with ripping film out of its spool or taking 36 shots in one frame while at an epic music festival, but the day I have a successful run with this shall be talked about for decades.

5- Kims Polaroid Joycam, we don't really use this but you gotta love polaroids.

These are but a few, and eventually I will post some shots but for now we use mainly my iPhone 4 Hipstmatic App and other digital Cameras. We also may have bought a Lomo Robot 3 shot Camera for a self Christmas present...maybe.

-morgan