Monday, 29 June 2009

Zeiss Ikon TLR


As part of my ongoing quest to buy as many weird and wonderful cameras off ebay as is humanly (and financially) possible, I treated myself to my first medium format twin lens reflex camera. Up to now all my cameras have been digital or 35mm so this was a bit of a leap into the unknown. After bidding on all sorts of TLRs, I finally ended up with a Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex 1C from the late 1950s.

It's an absolute stunner, a truly beautiful piece of workmanship with a bewildering number of knobs and dials. It's a million miles away from the old point-and-click cameras I've bought recently. I reckon it takes me about five minutes to take each photo, from reading the light meter, setting aperture and shutter speed and then trying to take a photo and realising that I've forgotten to wind the film on from the last shot! Theoretically this should mean you end up considering and composing each photo more fully, although it's taking me a while to get used to this way of working.


I've only shot two rolls so far, and I'm still getting to grips with what it can do. From what I've seen so far though I think I'm going to be enjoying this camera for some time to come. There's a selection of shots up on my Flickr pages as usual.

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Zider I Up!


...and another one as well. I have high hopes for this design on teepay, I think this may finally be the one that actually sells (please!?).

I lived in Bristol for ten years, first for university and then working there afterwards. I almost consider myself to be an honorary west-country fellow and can do a passable Brizzle accent (when drunk). This is my heartfelt tribute to a wonderful city and it's favourite tipple!

Old School


Fourth time lucky? I've just uploaded another new t-shirt design to teepay. It's my new school tribute to the old school formats, gone but not forgotten.