Syd Arthur at SoL 7 – 26th July 2013
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Hand of Stabs
It struck me that the year is almost over and I haven’t actually posted many music pictures this year and I’ve seen some great performances in 2013. So in order to remedy that I’m starting with Hand of Stabs. I saw them 3 times this year – firstly at Rochester Library and then as part of their Month of Sundays tour at Grain Fort and finally at the launch of the film they made on that tour on board LV21 in Gillingham.
VDubs and Scooters!
We’re going to this next year!
It’s £20 each for the weekend including camping and under 16s go free! There’s VWs, Scooters, live music, flushing toilets and showers! Sounds like a bargain too good to miss! We wanted to go last year but it clashed with my festival but SoL is earlier next year so we’re buying ourselves tickets as Christmas Prezzies! They’re available here!
In the meantime here’s a couple of pictures from our holidays on the Isle of Wight last year!!
Folk Police Showcase at Leigh Folk Festival
Folk Police Showcase at Leigh Folk Festival, a set on Flickr.
VDub
Some of the camper vans seen after the VDub festival on the Isle of Wight
Analogue Adventures Part 3: Yashica Minister D
I picked up this camera along with 3 others from a Freecycle group a few weeks ago. In the box there was an old Kodak Disc Camera, a plastic 35mm point and shoot and a yet to be tried Polaroid Colorpack 3 (with a film!!!). The Yashica is a 35mm fixed lens rangefinder camera dating from 1963 and considering it’s age it is in remarkably good condition! The camera has a built in CDS metering system which takes a 625 battery which, as luck would have it, I had lying around as I’d bought 2 for a Super 8 camera which then turned out not to work!
I found the camera a little difficult to get used to – you read off the exposure meter in Light Values LV and then set the value on the lens which sets the correct aperture and shutter speed for that Light Value. You can then move the rings round together if you want a greater depth of field or a different shutter speed. On the first time out with it I found the needle on the light meeter wobbled about a bit and checking against the light meter on my phone found it may have been reading a little high but this didn’t seem to effect the final images so maybe it was ok.
I took the camera down to Brighton on 1st April on what was a bright sunny day (although quite chilly on the seafront and used about two thirds of the Kodak Gold 200 asa film that I’d put into it up. The film had expired about 10 years ago but this seems to have had little effect on the outcome. The rest of the film was used up on a visit to New Romney on the 18th May. It was while I was finishing the film off I started to notice a delay between pressing the button and the shutter firing which I thought was a little odd. A few weeks after the film was removed I went back to have a look at it and to my horror discovered that the shutter wasn’t firing at all. I did a quick google and the info I found suggested that the shutter may need lubricating which turned out to be quite a simple job. The lens element simply unscrews and you can then get at the shutter blades. A cotton bud and some lubricant and it was fine again. I’ll have to try another film in it now but in the meantime here are some of the results from that first film….
The Green Man
Explored – again!
I’m feeling rather chuffed today because a picture I uploaded yesterday to Flickr made it into their explore section which chooses 500 pictures from the thousands uploaded every day to highlight.
This is the second time I’ve had a picture in explore and on both occasions the picture was taken with my mobile phone which just goes to show you don’t need an expensive camera to take a good picture and that what I’ve always said hold true – the best camera for the picture is the one you have in your hand at the time.
The picture has had around 700 views in the first 24 hours and has been favourited 44 times so far!
The Shed on the Web 