Ferry Mast
The Coho ferry mast, taken on a trip to Portland a year ago.
I inverted this shot and played with the white balance.
Ilford XP2 Disposable
Today I am reblogging my roll 50 which are photographs from one of Ilford’s single use black and white plasticfantastic cameras. Thhe results, while not stellar, are useful and acceptable.
The images are certainly better than some of the cameras I have tested with glass lenses, such as low end folders from the 1920s or 1930s. Go have a look at 52 Rolls at this link.
I have seen the Ilford black and white disposable (or “single-use”) cameras in a drug store for the past couple of years and wondered about them. Finally I bought one of the XP2 versions (the other contains HP5 Plus).
This is nearly as simple as cameras come. It has a plastic 30mm f-9.5 lens and 1/100th single speed shutter. Focus is also fixed but with the wide-ish angle and f-9.5 focuses from 1m to infinity. It is loaded with 27 exposures of Ilford’s XP2 ISO 400 film though the camera I bought produced 29 frames. The film is advanced manually with a thumb wheel. Actually, the thumb wheel retracts the film since the camera comes with the film unwound, and winding returns it to the cassette. There is a counter indicating the number of frames left. And the bit that is not quite so simple is a built-in flash that fires…
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Ferry Marker
Another photo from the Coho Ferry last year.
With much the same treatment as yesterday’s railing shot.
Olympus XA2 Underexposure
I forgot to reblog my roll 49 from a few days ago over at 52Rolls.net. Better late than never. Quite a lot of the roll is underexposed, but some of that is OK because of the subject matter. I am thinking the Olympus XA2 probably needs new or different kind of batteries. Most of the roll is in the gallery at 52 Rolls, so check it out at this link.
I have had a second roll of film back from the Olympus XA2 that is underexposed by a stop or two for many of the photos. My recent post Ocean’s Edge was the previous roll from this camera which at the time I thought was poorly scanned and that explained the exposure, perhaps combined with the camera not working well at 800 ISO. I also thought it might be related to the Lomography Colour 800 that I was shooting, a film I am not very familiar with yet. But, with this second mostly under-exposed roll, made with Fuji Superia X-Tra 400, I see that the fault must lie with the camera. So far I have been pretty lucky with the camera timing its choice for under-exposure as the Ocean’s Edge shots are much better for it, and many of the snow shots on this roll also benefit.
The question now is what…
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Ferry Rail
Taken on the Coho Ferry on our way to Portland a year ago.
I inverted this shot, rotated 180 and “adjusted” the white balance.
I like it like this, white on white was boring.
Trial Sunrise
Trial Island off the southern shoreline of Oak Bay, Victoria.
It has a lighthouse, now automated but formerly manned.
It also has masts for a radio station.
And, it is an ecological reserve so human activity is limited there.
This view is from the storm drain location – I can’t recall if it is beneath the tide in this shot, or just out of view to the right.
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