Graflex RB Super D
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 15 Comments »[caption id="attachment_220" align="alignleft" width="143" caption="Graflex RB Super D SLR 3x4 camera"][/caption] What's 7 inches tall by 7 inches deep by 6 inches wide, has a big 152mm lens, and a giant mirror inside? A World War II era giant SLR camera, that's ...
Fixed the Bellows. Now what?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | No Comments »A couple of months ago, I wrote about my first tries using the Kodak Vigilant Six-20 to take pictures. I experienced some unexpected light leaks from extremely tiny holes in the bellows, and figured out how to plug them up ...
Slide Film is tricky, after all!
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 6 Comments »Or is it? (That's a nice, vague introduction!) Well, I've been reading a lot about different kinds of film, including slide film. The color rendition is supposed to be totally different than from negative film, not to mention more of a ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »Earlier, I talked about how I got my Kodak Vigilant Six-20 and what it takes to get a roll of 120 film to fit inside of it. I also linked to the first (and so far only) set of photos ...
Fitting 120 in a space made for 620
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 4 Comments »The other week, before filming an episode of Fork You, Marisa gave me a neat old medium format "folder" camera from her family's collection, a Kodak Vigilant Six-20. I was, and continue to be, thrilled with this fun little ...
Ahh, the Internet is an interesting place.
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in double bass, geeky, hobbies, The Internet and The Web | No Comments »I was looking through my stats on Flickr to see what's going on with my photos. I was surprised to see some references to Double Bass message boards linking to my Flickr pictures. Hmmm...
All kinds of fun
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in architecture, geeky, photography, pipe organs, trains | No Comments »Today was a cool day. I managed to hit an incredible combination of my favorite subjects. Craftyangie needed to buy some clothes at the Macys in the former Wanamaker building in Center City, so we grabbed our cameras and ...
Easy Mousse
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in food, Fork You, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »Craftyangie and I have been helping out Scotty and Marisa create Fork You!, an online video cooking show, for well over a year now. And now, the latest show is up! Mmmm, quick and easy mousse... Just in time for ...
Wild Exaggerations
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »I hope that Scotty can one day forgive me for taking that photo... heh heh...
At the Train Show
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in geeky, hobbies, Model trains | No Comments »Saturday, we met Owen, Jess and Josh at the Allentown Train Meet Associates First Frost Train Meet. We to an ATMA event with Scottycakes (see his photos), but he couldn't go this time. Something about walking a friend's dog at ...