“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.”
—Noam Shpancer
June 2012
40 posts
my boxes are always a little off!
mine too. boxes are tricky tricky things. but for both editions of Vargtimmen I mostly eyeballed the measurements of the trays instead of using a ruler. I tried this with another box for printmaking, but it didn’t work out so well. I guess you have to be in a sort of fugue when making boxes.
Love it.
thank you :)
That's indeed what I'm thinking of! I see. Yeah that is a little expensive. Hm, well I got a pinhole camera that fits for 4x5, but I remember I had a hard time with that camera in the first place. And I don't want to waste the money. That scanner comes with it's own sort of attachment for scanning film, and it doesn't accommodate anything bigger than 35mm or dias. It's an awful scanner anyway. I'm gonna look around for something in 6x6! Cause that could fit my Lubitel. Thanks for answering!
you have a Lubitel? is yours horribly finicky? I borrowed one just to test out a TLR [I had always had a nerdy dream of owning one] and…I had a very bad experience with it, and now I hate them [Lubitels, not TLRs], which I feel is unfair.
and yeah! get a new scanner!
[I did end up buying a Mamiya C220, which is like a child to me. a slightly ignored child, though.]
This is a little out of the blue, but I remember you had bought yourself some old-school plates (hows that for pro lingo) to use in a medium format camera or something? What were they called, and have you tried them? Just got curious all of a sudden, as I can't scan medium format film with my scanner, but it's on something solid, maybe it could work.
hm, I was looking into buying a tintype kit, which may have been what you were thinking of. however, I didn’t get around to it because 1) the price went up and I’m cheap [$33 plus shipping is a bit much for 5 plates…especially since a few will probably messed up] and 2) I won’t have access to my school’s darkroom until the Fall semester starts, because they are doing photo one classes both summer sessions. -sigh-
but…yeah, that kit is a 4x5 kit, so I don’t really think it would help you. are you having weird technical problems scanning medium format, or is your scanner not capable?
