Monday, July 23, 2007

film... at last

i lucked out this evening at the Migros and actually found b&w Ilford film. i was in shock, because the last time here all i could find was color Kodak film. everything here has gone digital; film is rare, and usually very expensive. i couldnt believe a double pack of ilford 125 [36 exposures] was only 11.40 CHF. that's pretty cheap. i might need to go buy it all!

i also got some rechargeable batteries and charger for the mini keychain Vision Quest digi cam, which gobbles batteries to the tune of one battery for about 15 little snapshots; if the battery goes, the fotos go. very stupid. i made some shots w/it from the inside car, rain pouring down, when coming home from the Migros this evening. they came out blurry w/reflections, but cool.

a hill, the train tracks, and in the distance some of the town, a weird ball thing, electric wires, mountains, reflections
the bridge over the train track, viaduct above

i brought my small casio exlim digital to blog with... but for some weird reason it's battery is also going down at an abnormally rapid pace. possible the change in power? below: a shot taken of me using the casio [shot by jacqueline] of me with my new 2nd hand shop Kowa slr [testing it out], old polaroid land 210 [a polaroid 'print' drying in hand-and the film back in the other] and [unseen] 2 plastic toy cams in my pants pockets... by the Aare, in Buren- a few days ago.

[c]2007 doug duffey

Saturday, July 21, 2007

billboard collages, new old cameras etc

i brought my little casio digital camera with me to Switzerland this trip; mainly so i could foto blog. normally i use it only for snapshots etc. still do. i hit the thrift shop my 2nd day here and bought MORE cameras. it's a mania. i got another polaroid for 5chf, and cool KOWA slr for 30chf, another agfa 120 film camera, and two small agfa/zeiss rangefinders... however, as they are all film cameras, and i haven't tested them. i also have my plastic vivitars with me, but haven't finished any rolls or had any film prcoessed yet. i also have the polaroid land 210 but havent scanned the shots i did, which came out great!

i keep shooting with the casio, since i have a 1GB card i can and do make a gazillion fotos. i prefer film to digital... but... the casio is fine for quick street shots and such. i also shot some billboard collages with it--- these were done yesterday. [i also shot the same thing with the KOWA, on a test roll of 200asa]

pieterlen, switzerland 2007

close ups of sections of a wall [in pieterlen, switzerland] where billboards/posters have been stapled, torn down, stapled over, ad infinitum. in . i love this kind of thing. shot w/ casio exilim digital.

pieterlen-2 2007

[c]2007 doug duffey

Friday, July 06, 2007

vista quest-live and learn

well, the tiny digital camera ruined my 128MB memory card, it eats AAA batteries, and when i tried to download the fotos i thought i'd gotten [which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't] last night the battery got hot as hell [which probably fried the card!]

oh well... live and learn. 20$ blown on an experiment. ---- they say a picture is worth a thousand words... some worth many thousands of dollars... did i even get my 20 bucks worth [plus that 128 MB wasn't cheap back when i bought it] with anything i shot w/this key-chain digital camera? it seemed to quit working after i put the card in [which maybe i shouldn't have done?- but it said it would handle it]

well, just as i wrote that and was totally discouraged, i gave the cam one last shot [no pun intended] -i shot @ the tv and got this pilot with a reflection of the lamp on/in his head... so... now, the game is back on...
and with that... this arty self portrait. "say goodnight, Gracie"

[c]2007 doug duffey

Monday, July 02, 2007

vista quest

bosworth street, winnsboro louisiana
[c]2007 doug duffey

i bought a tiny vista quest digital camera at wal-mart. it's as small as a cigarette lighter- like a spy cam or something. anyway... while in winnsboro this week i made some shots, of which almost none came out. i shot these today while driving in the rain... in the lower one everything looks warped and there's a reflection of something [i think the back of a polaroid] on the dashboard... but i like it. they were in color... but i photoshopped them to b&w, which i like better.

bosworth street, winnsboro louisiana
[c]2007 doug duffey