Magic Tree
Posted by parahanga on Feb 03 2010
This is another digital to polaroid conversion. Shot on the South in 2005, I converted to Polaroid last month on 669 film.
Integral Film vs Pack Film: Which one is for you?
Posted by parahanga on Feb 03 2010
If you are new to Polaroid Film, here is a quick chart of pros and cons of integral and pack films. Read more about polaroid film here. Remember this list is highly subjective to the opinions of the author (me!). Feel free to offer your thoughts as well.
| Integral Camera | Pack Film | Best Choice? | |
| Ease of use | Easy – just pops out of the camera and watch it develop! Very Simple controls. | More Challenging – you have to time the development plus there. Also you have guess the distance of the subject and set the camera accordingly. | Integral |
| Sharpness | Mostly unsharp, with higher quality going to sx-70 films | Mixed, but generally sharper than integral. FP-100c has highest quality that i’ve used. | Pack Film |
| Experimentation | SX-70 can produce very creative results. | Image Tranfers and Emulsion Lifts can be done with Pack Film. | Draw |
| Available of Film | SX-70 films, 600 films will be produced, Fuji Instax are widely available. | Sadly, only FP-100c is available in future but may change. | Integral |
| Cameras | Polaroid is issuing a new line of sx-70 cameras, plus tons of older models for 600 film and sx-70 are available. | Purpose Built Packfilm cameras are no longer produced, however Pack film can be used in Medium Format Cameras such as Mamiya that can produce wonderful results. | Draw |
| Cost | Film Cost is can be high for these polaroid films, and generally lower for Fuji Instax. Bargains can always be found, but good sx-70 cameras are a bit more expensive. | I’ve found numerous bargains on Pack Film cameras, I’ve bought beautiful pack film cameras for less than $10NZd that have produced beautiful results. Of course you can go high end and Medium Format camera and blow your budget, but Polaroid pack film cameras do a great job. Film costs are comparable to integral. | Pack Film |
| Durability | These are relative durable cameras, but once they a broke, you need to buy a new one. | Very simple cameras, easy to hack into and fix. These cameras good introduction into the mechanics of cameras. I’ve tortured these cameras, some are more than 40 years old and they still work. | Pack Film. |
chairity
Posted by parahanga on Jan 31 2010
Here’s one my favourite shots – of which I have 3 versions, digital, 35mm slide, 669 print. I was asked this on flickr:
What does “Digital to analogue conversion” mean?!
My response:
Glad you asked, the shot was originally taken on a digital camera (Canon 10D). About I month ago I had my favourite digital shots converted to 35mm Slides via GammaTech.com. They have special machines to convert digital images to slides, I did this because:
1. I had problems with digital storage (I lost some of my best digi shots due to bad hard drives and unrecoverable dvds/cds *
2. I just thought they were cool.
Once you have them in 35mm format, you can use a DayLab Slide printer, or my case – a polaprinter. What this does is print your 35mm shot on Polaroid film.
I choose extremely expired film because I was curious to see the effects. The Polaroid film I used for this series was about 7+ years expired.
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* I know people people go on about the integrity of digital forms eg dvds and hard drives. Unfortunately I personally have not found this to be case. I have had 2 hard drive crashes and lost a couple of DVDs that caused the loss of some of my most cherished digital shots. Note: I am not railing against digital photography, l as i still shoot digital from time to time.
Beautiful Treehouse Book – Traumhafte Baumhäuser
Posted by vonnagy on Jan 31 2010
When I was in Vienna, I splurged on this book. It contain beautiful treehouse by the architects from La Cabane Perchee (www.la-cabane-perchee.com). The book is German, but the architects are based in France. Expensive book, and couple of the houses are not proper treehouses (don’t know how they got in) but well worth it if you have some extra dosh laying around. The book has really beautiful photos and towards the end it has beautiful draft drawings with rough dimensions of each treehouse. One of the remarkable things that this company designs are the spiral stair cases that wrap around the tree.
A Treehugging Treehouse
Posted by vonnagy on Jan 31 2010
Here’s a another interesting treehouse, one that hugs a tree! This was found via http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/flatpack-treehouse-is-dutch-treat.php. Here’s a brief blurb:
What I really love is the simplicity, the way it fastens together with the ratchet straps; just crank them tight and they hold the thing together and onto the tree. The dutch bracket on the front is the only thing that doesn’t fit this pattern, but of course they had to have it.
For more information please visit treehugger. For more great treehouses, click here.
