Well, my sick fascination with toy "Hit"
cameras continues. This represents my first venture into color
photography with the Hit camera. This is Fuji Super G 100 that was
slit to 16mm film for use in my Minoltas. But I wound up with a few
"ends" that were to short to fill a Minolta cassettes to 20
exposures, but just about right for the Hit camera roll. I really
really tried to NOT do any digital manipulation to the images, so as
to not dilute the "art" of the Hit camera. But I couldn't resist
playing around a bit with some images. Captions as necessary. And
experiments will continue as now I'm really fascinated with the idea
of getting better images from these cameras. Obviously there are
some light leak problems, and some film registration troubles. Darn
hard to see the film frame numbers in the little window on old,
reused backing paper!
Obviously there is some light leaking
trouble. It was very bright and sunny, but I had taped the edges
around the camera back with black tape, and kept black tape over the
frame counter window except when advancing film. Ah, all the more
reason to press onward. There were a couple time exposures taken of
the Christmas lights on the house, and the tree in the house that
looked promising but the frames overlapped so much I didn't mess with
them.
The daylight photos were taken in bright
outside sunshine. Full frame above, cropped and a tab or sharpening
and contrast added below.
Cars interior (duh). Cropped out the bad
light struck parts of the frame, sharpened and got this.
This is about one third of a frame.,
Cropped, sharpened and added contrast. Downtown Bovey, MN
My sons school. Full frame, no
manipulation. Below, same shot, cropped, sharpened and punched up
just a little. You can actually READ the schools name!
Our house. Full frame, no
manipulation.
My son at the shortwave radio in the
kitchen. Available light, camera sitting on a stool. About 1 sec
"guess" exposure. Full frame, no manipulation.
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