negatives, Cosmic Consciousness by Tom Hamill

 I had some negatives developed today, 4 roll, 2 were black and white and one was a old roll that was out of date it was a roll i got with the camera-30 years out of date.

the other roll was just plain old fuji superia film 400iso, 

all rolls developed except the fuji one were taken when i first got the camera i hadn't gotten them developed till now.

brings back some old memories, i had longer hair then.

Dunning–Kruger effect

I've been listening to Tom Hamill lately, he is pretty interestering although his songs sound alot similar and-after a while they do your head in

have a listen: http://tomhamill.bandcamp.com/track/the-alone

Home Made Fish Eye Lens,

i bought a little peep hole viewer from a hardware store to attach to the front of a lens, i'm wondering if i can find a way to modify a 35mm film camera to veiw through it, i'm guessing i'd have to take the whole thing apart to install it, 

why?

glad you asked, i have a  old broken 35mm fillm i obtained for nothing and i was able to jam open the shutter, i then blutacked the peephole in front of the lens and placed a white peice of paper where the film would run the light was cast through the open lens onto the white paper so i could see how much of the negative would be exposed, only a tinny circle in the middle would be exposed, so it can't be done like that. 

i built a little housing out of a film canister for the peephole so i could attach it to my old digital camera, 

i didn't follow one but you can find tutorials on youtube,

you have to zoom a little to cut out the large area of black, i think the angle is about 160 degree field of view

here are a few photos taken

Featuring Hassan at his computer yet again.

Website, url Change

if you're a avid visitor to my blog or website you'll notice the name change, 

I've also updated the url of my wbsite to: http://mungral.site88.net/

and if you visit my old url it should redirect to the updated one,

New Computer, DTB Printing

Messed with the HDR rendering to change this photo above, if she sees this she'll kill me.

it was during the break my computers hard drive died, nothing to worry about i got a new computer and saved all of my data, only thing i lost that I'm kind of disappointed about is all those actions i made.

oh-and I've now updated to Photoshop CS5.

yahoo.

Negative Scanner

this is the first neg image i used in this thing, it was in some old draws at home

I Recently got one of those cheap little negative scanners as a gift, i scanned a film i had developed and projected but could never upload because i had no digital copy,

so,

lets have a look at this scanner,

some bad things to be said about this:

-low DPI

-chunky especially bad on gradients

-really gross desaturated or wrong colors

-may be affected by ambient light or the scanners light it casts on film does not fill the whole frame equally causing glowing around the edges of dark images

-sharpness detail horrible

so it has a few major bad points to it-doesn't mean it doesn't have any good point though. like,

-its Cheap

-easy to use and light/small

-it scans negatives

-WWWAAAAYYY less time consuming then flatbed scanning, it took me like 5 mins to do a roll on this thing, on a flat bed it took 4 hours

seems I'm a pretty big tight ass the inexpensive part is a big bonus

inexpensive > many other things.... period.

i'll post some good photos from this roll that i havent uploaded yet,

Christmas Break, photos of the family

i went hope for the Christmas break and did a bit on the farm,

had a good home cooked meal and did a lot of hours in the tractor, took a lot of photos,

discovered my X100  has sticky aperture blades, i don't know when it started, i read about it on a forum and thought i better check mine-apparently it is an issue with the fine pix X100, could have happened in the recent heat or could have happened a month ago-if i had of known this earlier i would have paid more attention, its not really something you check-i did find i was having some trouble recently taking a picture of a cow in the shade on a bright sunny day-i thought it may have been the patches of light through the branches or ambient light fooling the shutter speed, so i changed that- i also would have discovered this earlier if i didn't have the ND filter setting on, i would have found a lot of photos were over exposed but this was acting as a aperture replacement. 

the blades were getting stuck when moving inward so the larger settings were no use, the aperture still remained wide open.

this was a very disappointing thing to find especially in such an expensive and well put together thing like the X100, so anyway, i discovered it now before it was too late and its been sent for repairs.

i took all my photos this time in HD aspect ratio

tell me what you think of these photos of my family,

none of these have been cropped or fix etc..

guy in the photo at the top is hassan

Hassan - panorama photo

couldn't line it up seamless by hand.