brand new nikon

it's my birthday tomorrow, but i got my present early! so now i have this lovely lovely nikon d90! took some piccies to show you!:

xx.anna

HOLGA!

my holga came in the post this morning!! soo excited! i texted anna, immediately loaded it up with film and headed out the door. such an awesome vibe today. Went for an op shop with my sister and got some pretty artfaggy clothes and finished the roll of film in my holga also :)

yeah today was good :)

good haul!

a few days ago i went to the camberwell market. it was actually an excellent day for me. i bought all this:

1. agfa "clack": this camera was produced from 1954 until 1965. i know it's an earlier model because of its metal body. it has a built in yellow filter and additional lens for close ups. its cost me $15 and it's in perfect working order. it came with its own leather case which is all in decent condition. it takes 120 film, so i'm so excited to give it a go!

2. "victor" tripod: i dont know anything about this except it's a nice little tripod, about 20cm tall. it's very sturdy, all made of metal. it works perfectly and i'm very very happy with it. it also has a vinyl case and a little clamp. handy!

3. etalon "comet" lightmetre: it was very cute and came in a nice little leather case. i don't know if it's accurate but if it is i'll be extremely happy with this buy.

4. kodak "verichrome pan 127 film": last week at the market i bought a kodak "brownie reflex" and it takes 127 film, which is only produced by efke in croatia.

so when i found this 127 film, which is probably used or definitely expired, i thought why not? so i grabbed that along with the tripod and lightmetre and paid $20 for the lot. good buy i say!

welcome to miss julia!

so this blog was pretty lonely with just little old me, so introducing a fresh new face: my good friend julia! yeah, she took that beautiful photo above. i'm jealous. and thats just a taste of what's to come! she's going to bring some new ideas to the table, maybe juggle some eggs for us. look out for her first post coming up!

ps. my holga arrived in the mail today.

pps. the clouds looked pretty again tonight.

oh wow lomography!

obviously a craze aimed at people just like me, i am completely sucked in. lomography sells crappy plastic fantastic film cameras (just like the golden half) which cost 50c to produce for ridiculous prices. but they take such damned pretty photos that you just have to have one. i want one of these babies:

the holga 120 cfn shoots on 120 film which means that massive film where you can take those 6x6 square format photos. so yes, 120 film is expensive to buy and develop but its so damn pretty! because of the bigger negatives the prints have much more depth and vibrance. gorgeous! also it has a built in flash with built in colour filters! way cool! i also want to buy a fisheye lens and 35mm adapter for it cause that would be damn cool.

ebay here i come!

here's a little photo taken by one of my fellow "lomographers" with her holga:

^cross processed slide film - nellie mae http://nelliemaeii.blogspot.com^

notice how awesome the light leaks and impefections look? i want to play with that! it also "vignettes" the photo which is when they fade off into blackness towards the corners of the frame. i love that!

some people tell me i should just get a diana f+ which has a similar body but the pictures have less definition and a dreamier asthetic due to the lens. they cost way more though so i think i'll save some cash and just buy a holga.
lo-fi photography: everyday fun which also captures some memories, and that's bloody exciting!

analog-mania!

yes, i know i haven't posted anything in weeks! but the fact is, i'm a busy woman and hardly make it onto my computer. so november was a crazy month for me, therefore a quiet month for the blog. but now, summer is here and i am free of school! i did well in all my exams, you'll be pleased to hear, and now i'm living it up until i start with the dreaded vce. the upside is that in vce i will be making a lot more art, so i'll have a lot more to post!

so lately i have been really into the whole photography thing, and i am now totally and utterly in love with film. i don't know why, but i am simply an analog girl in a digital world! so, after discovering that my dad still has his enlarger from the 70s when he was about my age, we unearthed it and cleaned it up! ooh baby is she looking fine?! soon i will have my very own darkroom and lots of prints to share!

also, i have bought this spiffy new film camera called a "golden half". a lovely little rubber-coated plastic beauty, it takes half frame shots on 35mm film. that means i can take double the amount of photos, then it gets printed two per print from any one hour photo! it even has a hotshoe attachment which means i can stick on almost any flash. i think it's made in hong kong, which really isn't surprising. i've got a little holga flash i bought online coming in the mail (from hong kong) real soon! i can't wait!

so sorry about my little rant on my photography equipment, i'm just really really really excited! some proper pretty looking posts to come. x