It works!

Well the camera works!! 24 exposures I took yesterday came out alright. Took £4.25 to develop at the local supermarket with a one hour wait. The cheapest film I can get my hands on is iso 400. It has to be because at this stage I don't know if this camara is going to work and give me blank images! So running that at iso 200 in the camera which is the slowest film speed it can use. You can alter the speed of a film (iso) by using a technique called push processing and pull processing to increase (pushing) or decrease (pulling) the speed of film and therefore the exposure you capture in the camera. Though you have to compensate for this in the developing of a film by saying how much you've changed this by. Other wise they will just develop for the setting of the film so it could be under or over exposed if you don't mention it.
So I had to pull this film...
The slowest film speed setting in this camera is 200 and that would mean it would be underexposed as they develop the film as if it's used at iso 400. So to make it make this work within the Sunny 16 rule I exposed it by a larger aperture to correct this. So instead of using it at f/5.6 on a heavily overcast day with no shadows I used it at f/4 so I could hand it in and make sure it was correctly developed without any fuss.

In the frame

Points of view

Differing points of view for camera shots. My favourite was the Dutch Angle.

A pointer

Film making at BBC Voices. Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots participants making a film. They're investigating HLF funded projects in the Norwich area in these films. Which will be used on the HLF website and shown on the screen in. We've been helping the young people make they're films.

HALINA 35X

"The Halina 35x is a masterpiece of design, in that it looks like an expensive camera....In 1959, the Halina 35x cost £7 13s. 3d." http://www.marriottworld.com/pieces/pieces34.htm#35x

Found this 35mm viewfinder camera in a charity shop for a fiver. Yes for five UK pounds in all it's luxurious metal shininess. I'll be using the Sunny 16 rule as there's obviously no built in light meter. Not that I can afford to use film extensively as I do with digital. Just another outlet in my creative philosphy. So it's all buffed up and looking nice but will road test with a roll of film this week to really know if it's still useable.

The specs for the technical minded people are

* Type: viewfinder camera
* Year of launch: 1959
* Films: 35mm
* Lens: 1:3.5 / 45mm Halina Anastigmat
* Shutter: speeds 1/25-1/200 sec and Bulb mode.
* Aperture: 1:3.5-1:16

Peter Hughes

Videoed the poet Peter Hughes today at the Pleasurance exhibition. He was reading from his book The Sardine Tree. Some of which you can see we projected onto him. A very visually orientated wordsmith.
Check out his webpage http://oystercatcherpress.com/phbio.html

King Leary

King Leary
Originally uploaded by -{The Broken Camera}-

Don Rout 1929-1992 painter, beach performer, exponent of mail art and poet.
The first layer is of the room at the Pleasurance exhibition of Don Routs work. The location of his 1988 Lowestoft beach performance is the second layer.

The title comes from Will Goodmans ( www.phantasmagraph.co.uk/ ) video of the beach performance.

pleasurance poetry reading

pleasurance poetry reading
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Filmed a poetry reading yesterday at the pleasurance exhibition. Reading were Rupert Mallin, Lisa D'Onofrio, Jim Jepps and Gerald Nason.

Bridget Heriz sculptures

Bridget Heriz sculptures
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Bridget Heriz sculptures at the Pleasurance exhibition.

Erosion of the eye

Erosion of the eye
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Nightmares

Breathe

Breathe
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

...Long you live and high you fly...

parent and child

parent and child
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

The autumn equinox yesterday and I found this sign. A sign for pedestrians in a local underpass.

samaritans

samaritans
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

A lone figure walks through the subway towards me.

Infinite charge

Infinite charge
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Order-disorder

Mare Germanicum

Mare Germanicum
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

What used to be the triple junction between three continental tectonic plates in the early Paleozoic Era.

A statistic is both meaning less but means something

There were 5,694 uploaded images in the last minute on Flickr and these were the most poplar tags used for images. The larger the type face the more popular they are used.

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How the dead have fallen

How the dead have fallen
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

A place called Gariannonum

Originally a Roman fort but has been used by everybody since they left these shores. Certainly a favourite with painters and in recent times photographers.

Taxus baccata

Taxus baccata
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Taxus baccata

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Yew
My late father must have planted these in the 1950's hence they're so mature. They take such a long time to grow. My grandfather planted a hedge in the 1920's and that is very mature and acts as a good wind break. Indeed relatively younger single specimens can be very special when left to their own devices to grow to maturity. As indeed conifers can be.

ghosts

ghosts
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

A particle or a wave?

Experiments with a home filter. In this case cloth.

The tower

The tower
Originally uploaded by Mark Sargeant

Seen from a far and now much closer through the grass.