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Holga Medium Format

26 Oct 2010 by



Where to develop 120 in zurich or lugano?

im addicted to lomography, and have a holga . where should i print my pictures?

Check the major professional photography laboratories in Zürich...they will usually develop medium format film. Try: http://www.photostudio13.de/ - http://www.gwerder.ch/ - http://www.stutzfoto.ch/. If those don't work out for you, try to find a shop selling chemicals for darkroom development...you can try processing the film yourself!

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Lomo Film Camera

04 Sep 2010 by


Few more apps are standing out in Android Application platform!

editing was so far a matter of Photoshop and a few related software. But Android came up with feature that can heat up the photo and movie editing skill of any user.
Earlier Android had camera features. But this time new version of Android's camera is just better than previous one along with some must-have applications. Most importantly, mega pixels of the camera are larger than ever before with each new android device. And it really hits the market.

Some time user may need a little bit touch on your snap which you might have taken in a party, or you want to crop a stranger part of the snap. There are few must have Android apps for taking and editing perfect photos.

PicSay is an interesting photo editing app that let users correct color, crop images and add texting in word balloons. And feature like applying special effects on the images are added to this app. Adding sticker-like graphics to the photos is another interesting feature for the users. This app helps users apply more sophisticated effects such as cross-processing and color splashes etc.

FxCamera is for a bunch of fun, cool effects to photographs. It offers few effects including ToyCam, Polandroid, Fisheye, SymmetriCam and Warhol etc. One can compare this app with several popular iPhone camera apps like CameraBag, Picoli or PhotoBox etc. Photoshop.com Mobile lets users crop and rotate images, adjust color and apply effects, although this app is little slow. It lacks some important features photo filters and a wide range of visual effects.

Vignette app adds and flash effects to the Android camera's arsenal. It has 15 frames, crop features and a self-timer and zoom. It also offers 46 Effects including Lomo and ToyCam filters, -style effects, cross-processing and tilt-shift. Camera ZOOM FX packs a slew of useful features. It offers 40 photo effects, zoom functions, photo bursts, timers, stable shot, white balance, grids and sound activation.

Finger Paint is basically a version of MS Paint for Android. It's a touchscreen interface that allows the user to color and draw over photos. Snap Photo Pro offers multi-shot bursts, a timer, brightness and contrast adjustment, stability mode, zoom features and photo filters etc. Camera Illusion lets users add effects, masks and filters to their photos in real-time. User can apply ASCII filter if he or she wants to get truly nerdy.

Apart from these applications and features, there are ample ranges of third party applications available in app market. In this regard, third party Android Application Developers are also playing the lively role in the thriving epoch of Google's Android.

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Tips on how to use your Camera from giftlab and photographer Elliot Muir

HOLGA PUNK

words and pictures by Elliot Muir

Whenever art or culture gets too sophisticated and tidy, you’ll usually find some creative insurgent unpicking it all, urgently trying to find something random and rootsy underneath. The Holga camera is the latest incarnationof lo-fi chic, and is currently ripping up the red carpet of mainstream digital photography. Holga is unashamedly the worst camera ever made. All the flaws that grown-up camera manufacturers have spent decades trying to eradicate are joyriding around her insides. Technically she is classed as a toy camera, but don’t be fooled – in the right hands she’s a serious creative tool with the potential to make your brain glow rainbows.

Part of Holga’s great charm is that her users require hardly any photographic experience to start making quirky images. By far the best approach is to shoot first and ask questions later, but here are a few tips to help start you off.

WHERE TO BUY:

Buy your Holga online at giftlab or lomography Be very careful on ebay, most of them come from Hong Kong and include a Free Gift!! but you may have to wait2 Months!! for delivery. If you can’t wait, then try the photographers Gallery in Covent Garden, but be preparedto pay more. You shouldn’t ever pay more than around £40 or £50 for a brand new Holga.

FILM:

Generally, most pros will agree that pound for pound, film yields more vibe than digital. Holga has been built to work with high grade 120mm film, which is fairly near the top of tree in terms of image quality and resolution. You usually get what you pay for – cheap grade consumer film is a false economy. To find out more, have a good look at the lomography website – then check out ebay or 7dayshop for the bestprices.

SHOOTING:

• Always make sure that the little switch on the bottom is set to N – this is the Normal setting. B stands for Bulb and you only use this at night for long exposures. Return it to N after making long exposures or you’ll blur and overexpose all your shots.
• Holga needs a lot of light. You’ll probably find that you have to use flash for most shots that aren’t in bright
sunlight.
• Be careful with the back of the camera, it has a tendency to fall off and wipe your film. Opening the back of the camera very slightly with film inside will give you ‘light leaks’ – magical peachy stains of retro analogue authenticity. They’re great.
• Pimp up your Holga. Go to squarefrog and holgamods for detailed advice on modificationsand experimental techniques.

PROCESSING:

Most Holga people get their films processed by mail order. One popular place is spectrumimaging but also try spectrumphotolabs– they’re a bit more expensive but the quality of their work is faultlessand they still do proper processing. On the high street, Snappy Snaps and Jessops are good, but pricey.

SHARING:

Show your pics on Flickr and you’ll soon get an idea of what works and what doesn’t. Flickr group forums are thebest place to find answers to any technical difficulties you may have.

SUCCESS

Holga is rapidly gaining acceptance as a legitimate tool for both editorial and fine art photographic work, so there are some pretty exciting new opportunities opening up. Just remember not to take it too seriously; Holga works best when you leave space for chaos.

To check out another Holga camera, the Diana+ go to giftlab.

Elliot Muir is a graphic designer, writer and photographer – you can see more of his work at flickr

To check out another Lomo camera, the Diana+ go here

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Polaroid Film Back

29 Apr 2010 by

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What Do Tweetups & Polaroid Have In Common?

The rise in digital media and technology has definitely given us many advantages over the last decade. Entrepreneurs can run an entire business using only a smartphone and a laptop. But is all of this change for the better? Do we lose something when things go digital? It can be easy to lose sight of our actions and relationships in the digital world if they’re not reinforced by physical actions. Often, we’re too focused on the digital side of something, and fail to see the effects and impact something has in the real world. To balance this out, we need to find the intersection between the two, and making things tangible, real again and making virtual reality back to reality.

Examples

Tweetups – Out of all of the people you follow on Twitter, and those that follow you, how many of them have you actually met in person? Chances are, there are very few. While Twitter has done a great job of helping us establish new connections with people from all over the world, these connections can be made even more powerful and effective when you’re able to converse in more than 140 characters, instead of talking face-to-face with someone else. Tweetups are a way people are making this happen. In any given city, someone can start a Tweetup, spreading the word about it and organizing all of the happenings using only Twitter. Tweetups provide a way to reinforce the relationships we make online by establishing a real, human connection.

Polaroid – Not everyone is transitioning to digital photography. In 2009, a massive campaign by Urban Outfitters, as well as an independent group The Impossible Project, successfully brought back the production of the classic . This group has proved that just because photos are going digital doesn’t mean everyone wants them to be that way, while at the same time proving the power of the crowd.

Stats

  • While stocks have been unpredictable, the price of gold reached an all-time high of $1,200 per ounce in Dec. 2009.
  • In a survey done by Rasmussen Reports, 81 percent of respondents said they prefer reading a book in a traditional printed as opposed to a digital reading device.
  • People who pay with cash spend about 20% less on average than those who use credit cards.

Take Aways

We cannot forecast that we’ll go completely digital anytime soon. There will always be resistance, and many times, it may be for the better. While there are has no doubt been improvements made in our lives because of new technologies, we may be losing those things that we hold closely, without even realizing it. Though a friendship can be maintained via the Internet, it will never be the same as seeing someone in person.

We often lose sense of what is real if we don’t encounter it very often. With nearly every retailer accepting credit and debit cards, the use of cash has declined significantly. We receive salaries through electronic transactions, never actually seeing the money or even a check – just...

To read more about Tweetups and Polaroid, go to Sparxoo, a digital marketing, branding and business development blog.

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Types and Models of Polaroid Digital Cameras

The type of with self-developing film is known as instant . Polaroid Corporation makes the famous Polaroid cameras.
Based on the type of film used, Polaroid cameras can be classified. The older Polaroids used instant film roll. Roll films were of two types: Positive or developing agent and negative. These rolls were available in three sizes. Pack film was later used in cameras, in which the photographer has to pull the film from the camera for developing and subsequently the positive and the negative have to be peeled separately while developing. This Pack film was available initially in a rectangular format and later in square format. Subsequent Polaroids such as the once famous SX-70 model utilized a square format integral film, which had the developer, negative, fixer etc in the same film. Development of each exposure was automatic once the shot is taken.
That’s the history of Polaroid camera. Polaroid digital cameras are now available in various types. You should be happy to know that there are certain models designed specially for a good cause. The m635P model from Polaroid Corporation was designed solely for promotion of breast cancer research. Polaroid Corporation along with actress Elizabeth Hurley initiated to offer a combined donation of $60,000 for the above Research foundation in the year 2006. Pink, light pink and magenta models of Polaroid digital cameras were launched especially for the above good cause and awareness.
One more noted achievement from Polaroid is the launch of the ION digital camera which combines high-end features and is easy to use. This ION digital camera has an on-board memory of 8MB and is light and compact, suitable for traveling people. Other features of this ION digital camera include automatic white balance with auto exposure, a 10-second electronic timer, the capacity to capture AVI video clips along with audio like a web cam, 640 x 460 pixel resolution, Arc Soft software on DVD, two AAA batteries and a USB cable.
Another great model from Polaroid is PDC 4355, which has glass lenses of high quality for Zoom and normal, 4.2 MP resolutions, 3x Optical Zoom and a fast CCD sensor. This is a good camera for photographers for point and shoot simplicity coupled with great optical performance. In the 3x optical and 4x digital zoom modes, the glass lens system permits for exposures for distances of 15 centimeters to infinity and has three modes for image quality and video clip functions.
This Polaroid digital camera has other features such as macro mode, auto focus, Inbuilt flash having the on, off and red eye and auto modes. The PDC 4355 model has an Inbuilt flash memory of 16 MB to store your video clips and pictures, later expandable up to 256MB with any available Secure Digital card. This camera also supports Print Image Matching feature that has the ability to have the camera and mode settings along with the images recorded. 
You can easily upload the images to your computer through an USB cable by using the software ‘ Impression 5.0’. This software can launch your desktop automatically, detect any new photos in the camera and permit you to transfer them to your computer at the click of the OK button. This handy camera allows you to take pictures within a few minutes of receiving and is powered by two AA batteries.

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