The Neptune Project » toy TLR http://www.theneptuneproject.com the rural Norfolk darkroom experiment Mon, 26 May 2014 16:32:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Gaol Hill http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1202 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1202#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:52:03 +0000 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1202 Posted in 35mmTLR

“Gaol Hill” With the spire of St Mary’s overlooking Norwich Market. Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5+]]> “Gaol Hill”

With the spire of St Mary’s overlooking Norwich Market.
Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5+

]]> http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?feed=rss2&p=1202 0 St. Giles Street, Norwich http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1008 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1008#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 11:03:50 +0000 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=1008 Posted in Uncategorized

St. Giles Street, Norwich Taken last week. Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5 Plus]]> St. Giles Street, Norwich

Taken last week.
Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5 Plus

]]> http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?feed=rss2&p=1008 0 Cathedral View http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=920 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=920#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 18:25:24 +0000 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=920 Posted in Articles

Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5 Plus Taken yesterday.]]>

Gakkenflex / Ilford HP5 Plus

Taken yesterday.

]]> http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?feed=rss2&p=920 0 Lo-Fi http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=881 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=881#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:58:36 +0000 http://www.theneptuneproject.com/?p=881 Posted in Articles

The more cameras I use, the greater my respect for lo-fi photography as a truly viable pursuit. Composition remains true regardless of the lens, and I love the Neptune end of the photographic polarity. That is of course photography’s natural … #LINK#]]> The more cameras I use, the greater my respect for lo-fi photography as a truly viable pursuit. Composition remains true regardless of the lens, and I love the Neptune end of the photographic polarity. That is of course photography’s natural state: chemical uncertainty. The rush to the wrong end of the polarity, toward Virgo and ever greater control, more megapixels, less chromatic aberration, instant verifiable results with the inconveniences cloned out after the fact in Photoshop is getting photography backward.

Recently I bought a Gakkenflex (pictured) which came originally from Japan. When first made this 35mm ‘Toy-TLR’ retailed for about 6 or 7 dollars, and was made entirely of plastic from a kit in a magazine. There are clones out there which give the same result for not much more. I also bought a Japanese Superheadz Black Devil and I took them both out today along with a 1956 Kodak Cresta II. There is simply no hope of controlling outcomes with any of these cameras, except in the most rudimentary terms. All you have is composition, and an understanding of which light will work, and which won’t.

And that is exactly what makes lo-fi photography so much fun, it has all the magical promise of uncertainty.

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