Camera musing

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Thanks to the inspi­ra­tion from a_flaneur, I began car­ry­ing my cam­era with me again today. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, since both of my cam­eras are so old, I don’t have an easy way to get any pic­tures off of either of them on my Mac. I think it’s time I got a new camera.

I used to do some inter­est­ing (or at least I thought so) exper­i­ments with col­or sep­a­ra­tion, and I have some ideas for pro­gram­ming Post­script to break apart my images and turn them into huge com­plex ran­dom-look­ing line fields that look like odd­ly-col­ored ver­sions of the orig­i­nals. I real­ly enjoyed that, but I need images with more res­o­lu­tion because I’d like to make wall-sized posters out of them.

I gave a small (20″ x 30″ print or there­abouts) pro­to­type of this work to a_flaneur and she real­ly seemed to like it.

You can’t see the details, and unfor­tu­nate­ly the high-res ver­sion of this image was lost years ago, but you can see some of the effect I’m talk­ing about in the fol­low­ing images:


This is the one I gave to a_flaneur:

…and it’s the only one that I can show some of the detail (although it’s the one where the detail is the most boring):

So we’re back to: yet anoth­er rea­son that the dig­i­tal cam­era I bought in 1997 real­ly isn’t ade­quate for my pur­pos­es any longer.

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3 Replies to “Camera musing”

  2. Fun­ny, those pix remind me
    Fun­ny, those pix remind me of pix from my Kodak MC3, except I don’t have any con­trol over mine.

    I start­ed car­ry­ing my MC3 with me, I’m walk­ing on my lunch hours and like hav­ing music with me. If I see some­thing, I can shoot it then go back to music.

    When I car­ry a bag, I always have a LOMO with me. Film still rox.

  3. I’m not going to argue with

    I’m not going to argue with you about film; I total­ly agree that it rox. One of my favorite pic­tures I’ve ever tak­en is here:

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    even in lo-res web ver­sion you can see the grain. I love that. But it took a num­ber of steps to get from one place to the next, and i don’t have the equip­ment to do all that stuff. I do have the equip­ment to do dig­i­tal manip­u­la­tion, so there you go.

    My MC3 pho­tos all had visu­al arti­facts that I did­n’t like. see the band­ing here:

    But I have to admit, it was a darn con­ve­nient device. I loved the movies it took.

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