Flipping the lens in an Agfa Clack for the #FrugalFilmProject, 02 September 2023

For the #FrugalFilmProject this month I took an Agfa Clack and flipped the lens. This is how I did it.

Recently I picked up an Agfa Clack for 10€. This is now my third Clack, beginning with original Clack for the #FrugalFilmProject and the slightly damaged one that I bought to cannibalise but found I couldn’t. I bought this one specifically because it had fungus in the lens, hence the cheap price, although otherwise it is in lovely condition. I wanted it for two reasons: to practise removing…

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The #ShittyCameraChallenge: Out with the Sony PlayStation Portable and a 'Deakinizer', 10 June 2023

This afternoon the weather cleared up nicely after a dull start. So I grasped the opportunity to go out with the PlayStation Portable and the Panavision wide-angle converter that I took delivery of yesterday.  The idea for the wide-angle converter was to use it as a ‘Deakinizer’, a lens invented by cinematographer Roger Deakins that creates an image with a clear centre and blurred edges. I had…

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The #ShittyCameraChallenge: Using the 'Deakinizer' with a real* camera, 17 June 2023

A few more images from the 'Deakinizer' with the #ShittyDigital Vivitar.

Today I took the Panavision wide-angle converter, the Deakinizer, to Águas Boas with a ‘real’ camera. Well actually it was the glitchy 2MP Vivitar camera I picked up from CEX for 1€.

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Some Pole-arity with the Shitty Camera Challenge, 07 June 2023

We’re catching the tail-end of Storm Oscar here in Portugal at the moment and my attempts to get out for the #ShittyCameraChallenge have been thwarted by bad weather. Today, however, the skies cleared a little and I took the opportunity to make some time for appreciation of the noble electricity pole. I had also taken delivery of some really shitty lenses, specifically wide angle and telephoto…

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