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invalidentity · 9 months

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Intrepid 4x5 | Instax Wide B&W with the Lomograflok

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Still testing instax film in my Goodman Zone, this time with the 65mm Mamiya Press lens. The sharpness and clarity instax can have with a good lens is amazing. Now to just work out the exposure.

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Testing a pin hole lens and instax film. This was a 30 second exposure with a pin hole lens at f168. Taken with a 3d printed lens on my Goodman Zone. Framing was awkward because I turned the camera vertically and I probably could have exposed it for longer. Next time I'll try to be more precise with my metering.

#analog film #analog camera #filmisnotdead #filmisalive #analog photography #color film #instax #instant film #instant photography

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Getting Ready For the Party

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invalidentity · 9 months

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I love the intersection of 3D printing & film photography because it helps keep film alive and innovates on existing equipment. If you strip analog photography down to the necessities, all you need for a functioning camera is a lens and a box/body to hold the film. The rise of 3D printing in the past couple of years has led to many wonderfully designed camera bodies, such as the Goodman Zone. The Zone is an open-sourced, medium format, modular, zone focus camera designed by Dora Goodman. It takes Mamiya Press or large format lens' and can use Graflex style film backs or the accompanying 3D printed 6x6 back. Besides the lens and Graflex back, everything can be built for under $50 between the 3D printing material and hardware. Because of its modular nature, the final configuration depends on whatever you need, but once assembled, with a lens and back, you should have something around 950g/2 lbs. Significantly easier to lug around than my back-breaking 2700g/6lb RB67. My favorite aspect of it and other open-sourced cameras is that if something breaks, I can just print another. I recently took my Zone out of storage after moving and realized the lens ring mount had a crack from an over-tightened screw. An hour later, I not only had a second part printed but had repaired the original with a soldering iron and super glue. The Zone is one of several cameras I've printed and one of my favorites. (Also, the first one I've finished.)

#analog film #analog camera #filmisnotdead #analog photography #medium format #3d printing #open source #Goodman Zone

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