Plastic Panorama

[deon]

I'm new here so I thought I would show off my black and white panoramic photography using a Kodak "Fun Saver Panoramic 35" disposable camera that I reload with Kodak Tri-X film over and over again.

Any feedback is welcome!

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Deon

 

[pbromaghin]

Wow. Your cheap, piece of crap camera sure takes good pictures!

But seriously, you really capture the loneliness, emptiness and largeness of the southwest. And so many broken dreams. Thank you for sharing this and welcome to APUG. You have way more talent than I'll ever have.

 

[btaylor]

Very nice work, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ParkerSmithPhoto]

Beautiful work, well seen. I especially like the sign series.

Now, off to check out PussycatRanch.com...

 

[Bill Burk]

Deon,

You have a lot of guts to go out and capture the west like that, using the cheapest camera!

Bravo! Very well done.

 

[summicron1]

Deon,

You have a lot of guts to go out and capture the west like that, using the cheapest camera!

Bravo! Very well done.

why not? Those cameras actually have decent enough lenses and usually a curved film plane for good edge-to-edge sharpness. If you don't want to hack a kodak to reuse it, get one of many cheap plastics that were reloadable and had a panorama setting -- all it does is drop some flaps down to crop the film.

heck, shoot with your regular camera and crop in the darkroom. The genius -- as the op demonstrates -- is seeing the image to start with.

I know exactly where that "whoa" sign is because I shot it last month too.

 

[ME Super]

Very nice. It's amazing what you can do with a good negative film and a fixed-focus, single aperture and single shutter speed camera!

 

[gone]

Isn't this post just like this post from 2 days ago?

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

You're not new here anymore. Nice work, but still....

 

[Dave R.]

Outstanding work, keep it up!

 

[Regular Rod]

Magnificent work. Almost overwhelming effect of emotion on the viewer.

RR

 

[Toffle]

Isn't this post just like this post from 2 days ago?

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

You're not new here anymore. Nice work, but still....

I'm scratching my head trying to see why you have a problem with this. In the earlier thread, he posted in the "introduce yourself" threads. (I really should get around to that some day.) This thread is under a much more specific category, one in which his work might be particularly well understood and appreciated. It makes perfect sense now that he's had a couple of days to explore the forums that he shares his work here.

By the way, Deon, welcome to APUG. Your work is wonderful. I have often imagined a similar "Bump" photo, but living in one of the flattest areas of the continent, I have yet to find a suitable bump.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Truzi]

Nice photos. Years ago I'd reused a single-use pano camera as well, though my pictures were just of ski trips and campus buildings, nothing really interesting. I'd taken out the mask so I could expose the full frame. There was a little distortion at the corners of the images, but the photos were still good.

 

[deon]

Thank you!

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your kind words! You might be interested in my blog(s), you will find lots of information as well as step by step (with photos) of how I reload and modify the Kodak "Fun Saver Panoramic 35" disposable camera (couple of years back). The Kodak panoramic disposable has a 25mm f=12 two element plastic lens, with a fixed 1/125 shutter speed. I have lots of cameras loaded and ready to go at any one time, since there is no adjustments on the camera, I mark specific cameras to push or pull the film accordingly.

http://deonreynolds.wordpress.com (fine art blog)
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Dead Link Removed (Adventures in our Sprinter) non photographic, but shows off how we travel finding all of those photographs. I just started this one, much more to come...

Deon

 

[SMBooth]

Deon love the images, but am I right in thinking that their cropped 35mm

 

[deon]

Deon love the images, but am I right in thinking that their cropped 35mm

You are correct, the camera has an internal mask that crops a 35mm negative.

 

[Jim Noel]

These beautiful images prove the statement that it is not the equipment, but the mind of the photographer which creates the image.