Showing posts with label Kodak Retina IIa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kodak Retina IIa. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

GET EXCITED

Why should you get excited? Well Couture week of course!! Whii, can't wait to see the shows, especially Christian Lacroix's, after all the reports of his label going bankrupt... Hope his show will be as optimistic & colourfull as always!

These pictures are long overdue, they're from my trip to Paris in April. I shot them with my vintage Camera (Kodak Retina IIa for those who would ask).








As you can see, these are far from perfect, the quality is kind of poor (I'm not claiming to be a great photographer). I'm currently looking for a light meter (so that I don't overexpose my pictures), for the moment I'm just sort of guessing which settings I should use! As always, tips are appreciated!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

PHOTO FUN

A while ago I told you about an old camera I got. Well, I'm glad to tell you the camera is still in perfect working condition! I did some test shots as you can see below (maybe boring subjects, but I just wanted to test it ASAP so I shot the things close to me, eg. my garden & my pets).

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Meet Dolores, one of my chickens! (She preferred to stay anonymous so she shook her head a bit to make sure no other chicken would recognise her on this photo...)

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Hahaa, this one's really weird, that's because it's a double exposure (unintentionally, but I like the outcome so now I just say I did that on purpose, right? ^-^). The first picture is a picture I took in my room, you can see 2 mugs and my drapes in the background. The second picture is a picture of my sister I took on our terrace, you can barely see her face, but it's there! (look between the cups!)

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A very interesting door...

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I took this picture of the sky because I wanted to see how the camera changes the colours. As you can see on the picture, the sky looks very very pale, almost light grey. But when I took the picture, the sky was actually really really blue! So the camera tones the colours down quite a bit! (I like the hint of pink too!)

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Neighbourhood watch... I saw there's a little mark on the picture, above one of the windows. I'll have to check if that's because of the scanning or a default on the picture itself...

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The garden is getting greener & greener everyday! Hooray SPRINGTIME! (I know, there's a lot of brick walls too, but once the big trees have their leafs, the garden does look better ^-^!)

I hope I will be able to get more pictures out of this little camera (well little, it's pretty heavy actually!), if I do, I'll be sure to share them with you!
Have a great weekend!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

VINTAGE CAMERA

I've recently discovered an old camera my dad had hidden in his closet. It is an old Kodak Retina IIa. He says 'It was the camera my dad (my grandfather) brought with us whenever we went on holiday.' It's a pretty old camera, I don't know the exact date but it was produced from 1951-1954 so it's over 50 years old! Mine does look a little more ,hum, 'vintage' as the one pictured below. I haven't tested it out with a film yet, but I'm going to get some tomorrow and try this thing out! I really hope it still works. Anyone of you familiar with vintage cameras?

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Picture from flickr.com
 

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