outerlimit wrote:
Every very now and then I load up my old Koni-Omega Rapid. The challenge of only having 10 exposures per roll makes me plan my shots. With digital and even 35mm I always took a lot of shots keeping only a few good ones. When you have so much invested in each frame you try to make every one of them count. I no longer have a darkroom and only professional labs even process 120 any more. Of course using a press or view camera takes it to another level if inconvenience.
When I was a lad a local gas station gave away Diana cameras with every fill-up. They also sold cheap flashes and dirt cheap foreign B&W 120 film for it. We shot thousands of pictures with those awful cameras and some of them now are prized images from my childhood. I discovered the fun of using a hot knife to cut up the plastic cameras and modified them to use dime store magnifier lenses for an even dreamier look than the cheap plastic lens that it came with. Then I discovered that a 35mm film box fit perfectly into a 127 film cartridge so I started making crude cameras with that. I even made a wide angle pin hole cameras with 4x5 film inside an oatmeal box.
When you have to work within limitations your creativity can lead you to unique and special images. I found Lomography that now sells Diana cameras for art use. I was an artist ahead of my time!
Try explaining these processes to the average kid these days. "You mean I can't shoot more than 10 shots?" "How come I can't post this immediately?" might be a few questions.
I always loved these type of deviations, but I just don't have the time to pursue other formats or mediums. I'm 2 weeks behind with some image editing.
