From the Ridiculous

This post has the rest of the images and associated gifs made with the Nishika lenticular camera which is reviewed on my blog earlier today at this link: http://wp.me/p1R4lY-73a. Check it out, there are lots of pictures, some of them are kind of interesting.

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Today I am posting some shots from a ridiculous camera, the Nishika N8000 which was designed for making lenticular prints, a kind of layered 3D print that gave a bit of depth to a photograph. The camera has four lenses that simultaneously create four half-frame images on 35mm film. The images are nearly identical but not quite as they are beside each other and thus have a very slightly different point of view. Printing is now hard to come by, and extremely expensive, so I have made some animated gifs instead, as well as present the groups of four images, as single images because that is how I think of them.

I liked the idea of four nearly identical images treated as a single one and is a main reason I bought the camera. These tests show that a more graphic subject works quite well. Also, the vignetting helps the effect, at least in black…

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An Atrocity, AKA The Nishika N8000 3-D

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I came across this fraudulent and otherwise hideous duckling in a thrift store and was unable to resist. It was overpriced, which is consistent with historical precedent for this model. The Nishika N8000 was designed to take photos that could be made into lenticular prints – expensive layered 3D images that were available through their plant in Nevada and a few other places as the camera become somewhat popular. Since they have, unsurprisingly, gone out of business getting such prints made is next to impossible now, although there do seem to be options to get prints made from scans (here). These cameras are still available as new old stock, but there is a web page dedicated to pulling apart the marketing hype that accompanies these cameras, and this one gives some fascinating history of the original marketing fraud (here, page 86-87) used to sell them. Then there is the camera itself, a study in fakery, which I will get to in a minute.
This is the sister post to one at 52 Rolls which has more of the testing results (some are below as well) and not much about the camera. Check that post, From the Ridiculous, for most of the results from this test roll of film, including several animated gifs.

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Haida Gwaii Townscape

Here is the other half of the roll of film I posted earlier today (link: http://wp.me/p1R4lY-7ba). This half is scenes around the town of Masset, while the other was out at the job site in Juskatla Inlet.

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This roll of film concentrates on the Village of Masset and follows from my Haida Gwaii Seascapes and Haida Gwaii Landscapes posts taken on recent work trips to Haida Gwaii. I don’t usually stay in Masset but a couple of weeks ago I spent a week there. These are shots from around town, many of places where I had a meal.

The mjuii was always in my pocket. The expired film was a bit off so for the more landscape type shots I converted them to black and white. They were mostly taken around the Juskatla Inlet narrows and those photos can be found on my blog at Juskatla Inlet, Haida Gwaii published at the same time as this post.

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Juskatla Inlet, Haida Gwaii

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Juskatla Inlet is at the south end of Masset Inlet, a very large water body in the middle of Graham Island, Haida Gwaii. These shots were taken on a work trip at the end of October. It is a beautiful place, even in the rain, and sometimes even in the cut blocks.

The rest of this roll of film is at 52Rolls at my post called Haida Gwaii Townscape which features photos of Masset. Most of those shots have kept their colour, but I did not like the way it shifted for the landscapes so have converted most of these to black and white.

 

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Oxidizing Up and Down

Haida Gwaii Landscapes

The rest of today’s (http://wp.me/p1R4lY-7av) roll of film at 52Rolls – check it out, there are a dozen photos, not just the one that gets reblogged.

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I recently posted a series of Haida Gwaii Seascapes taken during my boat based work in the south end of Haida Gwaii. These shots are from the north end taken during truck based work in the clear cuts around Masset Inlet, and a day off during that recent trip that I had to hang out with friends and visit North Beach which is east of Masset and Old Massett. All of these pictures are from North Beach in the areas of the Keyhole surfing location, and at Yakun, a small Haida settlement where a friend is about to renovate an incomplete structure on land he recently purchased. More from this roll, and this area, can be seen on my blog at North Beach, Haida Gwaii published simultaneously to this post.

I have been so lucky to have four trips to Haida Gwaii this year. For years I was on trip…

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North Beach, Haida Gwaii

 

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These photographs are part of a roll taken on North Beach east of Masset on Haida Gwaii. The rest of this roll is part of my 52Rolls project and published simultaneously to this one as Haida Gwaii Landscapes (at this link). It was badly colour shifted expired film which I have mostly converted to black and white to get the most out of the images.

 

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