F Zero Photography Blog

Yea I missed this year's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.

All right, this was fun ride.

So, time has come to make myself a printing darkroom timer.

Long time since last post, but fear not - I'm not dead yet, just kinda busy.

MO - that is Modus Operandi.

Another pieces that did't make it to it's own post.

tl;dr: if you want to try to make prints in the darkroom, absolutely go for it.

So we cleaned my grandmothers apartment.

It kinda looks like printed on fabric or something.

Your line is you Draw in whatever way comes naturally.

Sometimes I shoot digital.

Today I'm in the mood to spit out my recent pinhole pictures as they are - almost entirely unedited.

For someone, photography can be a way to transform ephemeral to eternal.

Winter rest (from the German term Winterruhe) is a state of reduced activity of plants and warm-blooded animals living in extratropical regions of the world during the more hostile environmental conditions of winter.

Fewer words, more pictures.

I bought bunch of old cameras for peanuts.

Yesterday darkroom did not went that well.

So I took a few days trip and naturally took some pictures, about three or four rolls.

Today I was testing Helios 44-2 lens on my enlarger and it seems to work fine.

Before I got nasty sick for at least a week I had some weekend fun with my new fancy enlarger and through those two days I tried fiber paper (it is great) for the first time, did some dodging and burning for the first time (it is even better) and realized,

Welcome to a totally irregular “what is boiling” report service.

This summer is hot.

Enlarger came in, so that’s a good news.

In last pinhole adventures I was pleasantly surprised, that I got (relatively) contrasty negatives and no bromide drag.

Good five hours spent on about ten prints – is it too much?

I usually semi-stand develop my pinhole pictures in Foma Fomadon R09, which is as far as I know, basically rodinal.

In the post about my pinhole camera I told you I think, that it has film advance system I consider superior to all others I so far encountered and that I think every camera should have it.

Maybe, just maybe, I have located where my interest in photo books is.

Do you know any better way to celebrate Friday afternoon?

Pentax really made and sells a brand new film camera, right?

Nothing is ever perfect, right?

So I was dialing in taking pictures with my pinhole Populist model camera and I have to tell you I like it more and more.

I have a good time watching videos about which setup is the best and testing which lens is the best.

Alright, I was looking forward this one.

Let me tell you what software I currently use to edit and organize my photos.

So I was interested in pinhole cameras and diy cameras for quite some time and when I saw Joe Van Cleave’s video about Nick Dvoracek designed and handmade cardboard camera with hilarious name Evil Cube I thought to myself “this might be it”.

Let me tell you a little story.

I saw it again and said “that’s it, I’m gonna type it down!”

It takes pictures.

… or like to work on in very near future: modify my DIY junk enlarger (more on that later) so it can take contrast filters modify the same enlarger so it can take medium format film modify my pinhole 35mm film paper camera (more on that later too!)

Bulk loading film has important advantages: it’ hands on and therefore fun you can make yourself film of any length, for experiments, for impatient folks like myself it’s cheaper Update: this article reminded me that it is also more ecological, less waste…

So the other day (my favourite hockey team have just tragically lost the game so I had to do something!)