{"id":1440,"date":"2010-08-03T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2010-08-03T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:31:09","slug":"get-canned-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Get Canned Flex!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOn the 16th of June 2010, I got myself a Gakkenflex DIY twin-lens reflex camera! (Hand model is Lydia Kwan.)<\/p>\n

It comes with a Japanese magazine, Otona no Kagaku<\/b>, which includes a DIY kit in each issue. Very cool idea, and this particular issue number #25 is a hit, with many reprints!<\/p>\n


\nIronically, this is the back of the magazine.<\/p>\n


\nThis is what it looks like, unassembled.<\/p>\n


\nThe shutter mechanism. Fixed at F11, 1\/150th of a second, unfortunately, limiting it to bright light even with ASA400 film. In theory, I could remove the aperture plastic, but it also holds the lens in place – so even if I did take it out, I’d have to find something else to hold it in alignment, or else my pictures would be out of focus.<\/p>\n


\nHere it is with some other buddies who didn’t last the SLR revolution. Top left is the Blackbird Fly, a TLR where the top viewfinder does not show focus, but shows everything in focus – so it does not give you that amazing TLR experience, focusing on a viewfinder from above and having a most 3D viewfinder.<\/p>\n

Technically, the Hasselblad 501CM here is a Single Lens Reflex since it does have a medium format-sized mirror…<\/p>\n

There is also the Polaroid Land Camera to the left, with a very cool rangefinder mechanism, and a Leica M6 and M3 somewhere in the picture. At the bottom is the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport, which I will blog about sometime later.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Azrul of 807studio<\/a> for your hospitality and having a few cameras to pose with!<\/p>\n


\nThis is what it looks like from above. You can’t really see much focusing going on unless it’s at close range. The viewing lens is brighter than the image-taking lens, though, and it thus does not represent depth of field exactly.<\/p>\n

There is a sports finder, which I have not managed to teach anyone how to use.<\/p>\n

And now, on to my first roll, with Kodak Gold ASA 400!<\/p>\n


\nMy first shot. Metered with my A900, I had to do a little trick where I flip the shutter down, pull it slowly up, and it goes into Bulb<\/b> mode. The exposure here was 20 seconds, I think.<\/p>\n


\nAzrul and I then went to the demolition of the Pudu Jail wall. With streetlights, I could get 5 second exposures.<\/p>\n


\nThe machines eat into the wall.<\/p>\n


\nHere’s a hotlamp going as close as it can go through a softbox. F11 1\/150s at ASA 400 is hard to satisfy! That would be almost three stops below Sunny F16.<\/p>\n


\nThe lens has decent central clarity, and rapidly diffuses into softness, and some sort of shakiness I can’t put my finger on.<\/p>\n


\nThe last shot I took with it, 14 frames into the roll of 36. The remaining 22 were black blanks! I had no idea why this was so, unless the shutter had malfunctioned.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I would only know when I finish the roll of Fujifilm Superia ASA 400 currently in the camera – then I could open it up to inspect it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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