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One evening I opened my bag to pull out my Lumix GH1 and much to my horror, I found the camera strap lying at the bottom of the case! Inspecting the body more closely, I discovered that the camera strap lug had somehow fallen off the camera body. I picked up the camera, gave it a quick shake and lo and behold, there was a rattle inside. Alarmed, I did some emergency surgery.
So I tried a little bit of self-publishing today with the creation of a photo calendar called “Reflection.” I had originally thought about making it a one-off, but then decided “what the heck” and made it generally available.
For many people this little DIY lens experiment looks nothing more than a different take on a bellows lens. In a sense, they are correct. The basic concept behind this contraption is firmly rooted in the tradition of a large-format bellows camera — a lens connected by a bellows to an imaging unit that allows one to tilt, shift, and swing the optic to properly align the image plane with the “film” plane. Dry, technical, perfect and to me, boring (as you might have guessed, I’m not big on Ansel Adams, either).
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011