Aromas coffee shop, Elizabeth St

Our civilisation has everything it needs it seems in terms of function and convenience (hate that word). Style is the new coal-face. The thrust of development.

Watching cars come and go from the Hilton. Low predatory crawl of fat tyres and heraldic hubs - even a taxi has them.

the way a car moves, corners, enters the traffic - it has as much to do with style as has clothing, or choice of coffee for that matter (long strong black for me).

Thank God I saw an ordinary yellow cab with cross-ply tyres and no hubcaps.

The common man.

I wonder of he has a set-top box?

City Farm

City Farm, originally uploaded by jayavant.

Since I dropped my digital camera a few months ago I have been using a borrowed camera and saving for a digital SLR. Then I thought - I have two old 6x6 film cameras in a box somewhere - I ought to use them.

Well I've been shooting some test films through these cameras lately and having mixxed results. One of the cameras, a Seagull 4B, seems to have a shutter problem and overexposes every photo. I know it is the shutter beacuse the 15th of a second sound like nearly a full second... click..bzzzzzzzzzzzz...click

This photo was taken with the other - the Lubitel 166. It tends to vignette pictures a bit, but I trimmed that out of this photo. It is also very difficult to focus and has a shockingly narrow depth of field.

Also I don't have a functioning light meter - so I guess exposures.

It's fun developing negatives again though - I always enjoyed that aspect of photography. No enlarger though - this photo is from scanning the negative.

I bought a Yashica 6x6 on ebay just now... so my committment to film is overtaking my desire for a digital SLR. The Yashica has a light meter built in.

This photo by the way, was taken at the City Farm in Herston. Theire harvest festival on the weekend was rained out. I took a few hopelessly underexposed photos - this is the only one that half worked.

Over-exposure on the Seagul, under-exposure on the Lubitel.... O for a light meter!