So I went to the Emerald Fete on Saturday, and I bought me 2 instamatics, a 25 and a 33. Both in good condition, with the original cases…
So I went to the Emerald Fete on Saturday, and I bought me 2 instamatics, a 25 and a 33. Both in good condition, with the original cases, for $1 each. However, the one cartridge of 126 film that came with them is full, with photos that aren’t mine. I want to get it developed, and I want more film, so if anyone in the Melbourne area can tell me who develops 126 film still, and if you want to sell me some more, let me know. Also, I shot my first TTV shot with the 25. It came out alright, except for the bad lighting and all, but it could be a lot better. I’m not really sure how to get a good focus, or if I can, or how it all works.
Thanks SO MUCH to Juilee Pryor, who sent me 6 rolls of Kodak 126 film, which I recieved this afternoon. Look out for some photos from my…
Thanks SO MUCH to Juilee Pryor, who sent me 6 rolls of Kodak 126 film, which I recieved this afternoon. Look out for some photos from my instamatics when I get them developed. Juilee, you are awesome. Everyone go and look at her page and buy her stuff, now. Right now. Go. GO!
I’ve been posting some images taken with a really wide variety of cameras…. some digital…. some old SLR stuff and even something from a home made camera and today I’ve been scanning some really eccentric images taken with a tiny instatmatic camera. This funny old 126 film camera is like something you would give a child to play with but hey I’m up for anything that will return me an image…. and to really make it more interesting I’ve used some reallly old film I got at a garage sale about 15 years ago and hung on to ‘just in case’ ..... so the film is way out of date and degraded and basically total crap…... in other words this is a combination of film and camera that is right up my street…..:) The negatives are a square format and have proved somewhat tricky to scan but I’ve been fiddling about with it…..it was that or finish a thesis….... and put together three shots of the palm tree just outside my window….. I think its pretty cool and would love to know what you lot out there think of it…. as you can see I have done pretty much nothing to the image except to put them together in a row… no colour adjustment of cloning out defects or whatever…. this is how they really look …..enjoy
Well its raining here and I never did get around the real work I was meant to be doing today….. so just because I’m having such a good time with my little instamatic 126 film camera…. I’m going to post another one…. its a double this time and its of some lovely pretty pink roses….. yah for film and double yah for toy cameras and out of date film…....
I’ve been fooling around with some scans from a 126 film camera…. a little instamatic to be precise and have made a whole series of new works….. well it keeps me of the streets…..
another fun little combo from my days doodling with some 126 instamatic scans …. hey its better than the telly…..
a combo of images shot with a decidedly low tech instamatic camera which uses 126 film…. all these shots are taken in my big back yard which is a pretty special place….. wild and overgrown and filled with exotic flowering plants and trees that desperately need haircuts…
another 126 film composite from the scans of a little instamatic camera I have and this one is of a lavender carpet of jackaranda blossoms on the lawn of my big back yard with the host trees to the side of it. When I was little ….OK thats some time ago…. my siblings and I always called these trees ….plippitty plop trees… ...for no reason that I can logically explain… ..anyway there are times in Sydney when all these trees blossom at once and its like there is a shimmering purple haze every were you look….. lovely…
yes yes its another 126 film tryptich from my little instamatic camera of some flowers in my wild and impossibly overgrown garden. the low tech possiblities of this funny little camera are really delighting me…..
My film camera collection on a tee.
Christmas 2007 / Instamatic 25
Instamatic 25
Instamatic 25 + Photoshop
Instamatic 25
A few days ago the lovely and hugely talented Mel Brackstone posted an image which she had described as a hand coloured infrared. / It’s a beautiful silky delicate image and it really looks good. But is digital placement of colour on to a digital image really handcolouring? Are virtual paints and toners as good as the old fashioned ways of putting transulucent oil paint or ink down onto a toned fibre paper print? Anything displayed on a screen will look smooth and flat but the real test comes when you look at a handcoloured print in the flesh so to speak….. the surface is heavy and silky and solid and the paint on the velvet texture of real ‘paper’ paper is compelling in the way it demands that you touch it. This image called Summer Roses was shot with a tiny Kodak instamatic camera using seriously out of date b/w 126 film. It was then printed at 20×24 inches onto warmtoned double weight fibre paper before being delicately toned with Marshalls very fine transulcent photo oil paints and then double matted and framed in a old bleached and distressed timber frame. It looks scrumptious and no one could ever mistake it for anything digital…. it’s so full of depth and luscious with all the layers of oil paint. It took me weeks to finish it as each layer of paint needs to dry before the next layer goes on. In fact it’s probably not a photograph anymore although the parentage of this bastard child of painting and photography is clear to those who look at it …. in the flesh anyhow…...so anyway this is a real hand coloured photograph or perhaps I should say … this is a digital photograph of a handcoloured fibre print….... :)
Instamatic.
This image was taken for the 100 Steps Challenge over in the Melbourne and Victoria Group. It was taken on a vintage Kodak Instamatic Camera on 126 film. This was the first roll of film I have put through it, but I think I am really happy with the soft effect that the camera has. Enjoy.
Memories of the Kodak Instamatic that started it all!!
This is a 38 year old picture of my husband and I having a great day while up in Cedar Point,Ohio on our honeymoon in 1971. We were on TOP of the World! It was A truly GREAT Day! This image was obviously done in a photo booth in real film—instamatic of some type at t hat time. Not bad,eh?? LOL! Camera Type: Instamatic Photolab Prints of some type. Black and White.
Feedback would be so good. / I have two minds about this
In this work I have drawn and painted my own hands holding an Instamatic camera which has just photographed one of my artworks. The mediums used are acrylics, inks and paper collage.
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