an excellent sunday

60 second exposure. hard to get a lot of light through lens, viewfinder, another lens to ccd. having fun playing around with this. the novelty will wear off eventually, but right now everything looks cool to me through this.

What is this? Here you can see various angles of my duaflex ttv contraption. I followed these instructions, but made modifications for my needs. Didn't have black posterboard or gaffer's tape so used discarded cardboard, packing tape and some heavy paper from some spare hanging file folders to reinforce edges and block out light (since my tape is transparent) all in all it turned out great. the b&w images accentuate the messy tape, but it really looks quite clean and nice. I've already got one "hey, what's that? A periscope?" comment in the few minutes I had it outside to catch Evan waxing his new board. 3 times surfing in 4 days. fun.

tummy back to 90% today.

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EDIT: having trouble uploading contraption images to my host. check back in a bit as I'll keep trying to get them up.

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MORE in response to Shy's question: there's no overlay--no photoshop trickery, it's all analog, all real. it's an old camera with lots of dusty junk. I like it, but maybe its a bit much. should I clean some of it out? What I love about these ttv shots are how real they are, and unforgiving. You have to compose well--can't crop. It's tough to get the exposure right. the duaflex has a fixed focus lens and to that you add the limited resolution once cropping the square viewfinder image out of the larger digital frame (I just realized I'm really only utilizing 1/9 of the frame due to my camera's poor macro abilities). So that's less than 1 megapixel of data. Only would work for a web format like blip unless I get a real camera with a real macro lens.

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UPDATE: damn web server is crapping out on me still. sorry for broken links. will get those contraption images up as soon as I can!

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FINALLY GOT IMAGES UP!