#lensflip

For the #FrugalFilmProject this month I took an Agfa Clack and flipped the lens. This is how I did it.

Recently I picked up an Agfa Clack for 10€. This is now my third Clack, beginning with original Clack for the #FrugalFilmProject and the slightly damaged one that I bought to cannibalise but found I couldn’t. I bought this one specifically because it had fungus in the lens, hence the cheap price, although otherwise it is in lovely condition. I wanted it for two reasons: to practise removing…

This afternoon the weather cleared up nicely after a dull start. So I grasped the opportunity to go out with the PlayStation Portable and the Panavision wide-angle converter that I took delivery of yesterday.  The idea for the wide-angle converter was to use it as a ‘Deakinizer’, a lens invented by cinematographer Roger Deakins that creates an image with a clear centre and blurred edges. I had…

We’re catching the tail-end of Storm Oscar here in Portugal at the moment and my attempts to get out for the #ShittyCameraChallenge have been thwarted by bad weather. Today, however, the skies cleared a little and I took the opportunity to make some time for appreciation of the noble electricity pole. I had also taken delivery of some really shitty lenses, specifically wide angle and telephoto…