Analogue #4 - Polaroid land camera 1000

YES! A new week, a new analogue camera blog post!

This one is a really popular one I guess. It’s a really beautiful  camera. In the past few years, camera’s from polaroid became absurdly popular again!  Its my polaroid land camera 1000!! I had bought this one at the flea market in Vreeland. It was only 10 euros!

 

Polaroid used to make instant cameras that you could fold in. (Got one of those too, I will write about that one next week). After producing a series of folding cameras, polaroid started producing large numbers of plastic bodies, non-folding cameras. This cameras used the SX-70 integral film. Which looked like this:

 

 

These where cassettes for 10-15 exposures. They’re still sold online. But watch out! Most of the film sold online is expired, which isn’t a problem if it’s not TO OLD. In 2009, polaroid stopped making films. So your film could be way to old to use, and you would pay way to much for it too! Expired polaroid film can give your pictured a great vintage look though! I would recommend buying film until 2007, everything before that would be to risky. In 2010 there was a company that started producing new film for your polaroid. It was called “the impossible project”. Their film is very different so be sure you want to buy their film if you found it! Here is a video telling something about using film from the impossible project:

 

 

Now, If you want to buy film for polaroid you can find it on Ebay everywhere! even some photography shops still have them!

Last, a little something about the flash. If you want to take pictures in the dark, you would need a flash. You would have to buy a flash bar which is kinda expensive… (13,50 euros)  I’ve got only one, and I can use one flash bar only 5 times, so be careful!

They look funny though:

 

 

If you want to buy this super duper cool camera, there is only one way you can check if its working, and that is using an old film cassette. You put it in the camera and see if it will turn on. There is no other way to check unfortunately.

 

 

And again, as always, the official commercial of the polaroid land 1000 camera! Haha so funny!

 

 

 

Have a nice day! Tomorrow a new post on THE CHAIR!

Lemon cookies

It has been a rainy Sunday all day here in Holland… A rainy day asks for tea and cookies. So I went brainstorming on a new recipe on cookies. This one is inspired by shortbread. But I changed it here and there.

 

Se here is how I made them:

Ingredients:

1 lemon

90 gr. powdered sugar

250 gr. flower

175 gr. butter

1 egg yolk

1 egg

 

Rasp the lemon skin in a bowl. Put in the butter and sugar. Mix it for a while. Then put in one egg yolk and the flower (be careful, put it one spoon at a time). Mix everything until you have a nice dough.

Put the though in the fridge for about 20 minutes. In the mean time, you can clean up the kitchen and put some flower on the worktop. Heat you oven at 190 degrees Celsius.

Take out the dough and flatten it until its about 0,5 cm thick.

Take out circles (about 5 cm) from your dough. place them on your oven plate.

 

Take the other egg end beat it up a little, then add a little bit of the egg on the top of the cookies.

Put them in the oven for about 8-10 minutes, then take them out and wait 5 minutes before eating them.

They where delicious!

Have fun making them yourself!

 

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The chair – part 1

As some of you know, I’m a student at the A. Roland Holst College. You can compare it to high school. Only in Holland, the high school is separated in different  levels. You have MAVO, HAVO, VWO and gymnasium. I’m currently in my last year of the HAVO, which is the average level in Holland. Since its my last year, I have to do a really important school project that takes a lot of time. I was thinking, I could blog about the progress of the whole project, and I could use some help.
So lets begin…
The whole project is about recycling and how to make recycling fun. Recycling has become popular worldwide. Though, I have been asking students at school about recycling, and I was surprised what faces the students gave me when I asked them what they think about recycling. The most of them tell me they know that recycling is good for the earth and all and you should separate your garbage… but they don’t do it because “its stupid and takes to much time”. Then I showed pictures of famous recycled design products, they’d say its awesome. Most of the people didn’t even think about design when they thought about recycling. So it CAN be cool. The problem is, the recycled designer products are really expensive AND don’t encourage you to go recycle YOURSELF. Its only makes you feel good, cause “you bought something recycled” For example, look at the amazing designs from Piet Hein Eek. He makes beautiful furniture made of scrap wood.

I really love this work, and I would love to have furniture like this in my future home. Now lets look at the amount of money you see on this picture. One chair will cost you:

Without lacquer: € 1.917,00

with lacquer: € 2.105,00

That is a freekin’ lot of money for just ONE chair! A normal household is not able to pay that for their furniture!
So that made me think. Is it possible to make something that:

1. Makes you want to recycle yourself (makes it fun).
2. you want to place in your home.
3. Won’t cost you an absurd amount of money.

So that point of view is the base of my school project. I’m going to do a research on recycling. About what recycling is, how to make it popular, for how long have people been recycling and much more! The final product is a great research on recycling AND … I’m actually going to make a chair, which has to measure up to the points above.
And the most awesome thing of all, the chair is going to be exhibited in Hilversum February 8th. After the exhibition, to actually make point three come true …. I’M GOING TO SELL THE CHAIR FOR A GOOD PRICE! So keep following my posts on this and PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK! What so you think of the whole idea? I’d really appreciate feedback, ideas, websites, everything! If you read this and think about an article that you have read about – for example – the history of recycling, PLEASE comment it, or mail it to me! I would love to make a chair together with you guys!
Mail: dutch-story@hotmail.com    Subject: The chair.
Have a nice day and thanks for reading!
Ps.
I’m doing this project together with Josephine, she is amazing with clothing. She makes her own clothes sometimes… WOAH so awesome! I love her winter coat! you should look at it! I’m going to ask her if I can show a few pictures of it on my blog.. so maybe next blog you will see it!

DIY- Nothing to do on a Sunday morning table

It’s time for some DIY again! haven’t blogged about that in a while, and I have been working on some DIY projects the last few weeks. For example, a lamp made entirely out of plastic cups. It’s not finished yet, but here is a preview of the lamp:

 

I’m going to blog about it when it’s finished and give you a step by step plan on how to make it yourself!

But I wasn’t going to blog about unfinished DIY projects. I was going to blog about finished DIY projects. I was working in the garden when I found this piece of wood. I think its from a pallet or something. I was planning on throwing it away when I thought I could definitely use it! I could make myself a little table!

So here is why my blog post is called “Nothing to do on a Sunday morning table”:

I’ve got a lot of Sundays when I just do absolutely nothing. I’m sure a lot of people can relate to that. Those mornings when you wake up at 10 or 11, eat something, and then watch a complete season of you favorite series.  I do that sometimes, and to make this season marathon as confortable as possible, I tend to actually stay in bed for the first few episodes and watch them on my laptop. And THAT is where my table comes in handy! Still don’t get it? see it for yourself. I’m so happy with this DIY product!

So I found it like this:

Then I painted it with the same paint I used to paint my rasp. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, You should definitely look at my DIY-RASP <—click!

I painted it outside, then brought it inside to dry. Haha look at my lovely cat watching over it! So cute!

I let it dry for a few hours… then I could start using it! So handy! LOVE it!

Hope you like it and try it out for yourself!

Have a nice day!

 

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Analogue #3 The Olympus OM-10

As promised, the next blog post on my analogue camera’s. Already the 3rd one, but no worries, I still got a lot of cameras to go! This time it’s the beautiful SLR-camera Olympus OM-10.

I had bought it at a giant thrift shop in Hilversum. I absolutely love this one, I had brought it with me to Turkey (vacation) and used it for a school project. It is Ideal for a lot of reasons. For example the lenses. Olympus has a whole OM-system which includes lenses! you can buy them on eBay for a low price.  Here are some pictures I made with my Olympus OM-10:





The Olympus OM-10 is a 35mm film camera. This camera is part of the OM system which Olympus launched in 1972. The Olympus OM bodies were divided in a high range and a middle range. The Olympus OM 1,2,3 and 4 where the high range category, the two middle where the middle range cameras, and the cameras above that where the lowest range. This way, Olympus was able to built a lot of camera parts that where the same and later put in the expensive equipment for the Olympus 1,2,3 and 4. So you where able to have a good quality camera for a lower price.
The Olympus OM-10 was launched in 1979. The early productions of the OM-10 have had malfunction issues with electronics, metering, and shutter magnets. So If you want to buy one at the thrift shop, make sure to check if the metering and shutter works. If you don’t know how to check your metering and shutter, you can read my other blog on how to buy the right vintage camera.  
If you’re looking for a good quality camera, you should take a look at this one. Its beautiful and it has this lovely “click’’ sound when you take a picture.
For the fun, here is the commercial of the Olympus OM-10 back in 1979:

If you have any questions, or think there is something missing in the information that MUST be included, please comment! If you’re looking for 35mm film, just click here.

How to buy the right vintage camera

The past few weeks I got a lot of questions about buying a vintage analogue camera. A lot of people want to buy a vintage camera, but don’t know where to look and how to be sure you won’t buy a camera that doesn’t work. I’ve decided to write a little bit about what to look for when you buy a vintage camera.
first of all, where do you find vintage camera’s? … I visit the local thrift shop almost every week. Thrift shops are by far the best places to look. Fridays and Saturdays are the best days to go there. These are the days people clean up there homes and bring their whole attic content  to the thrift shops. If you don’t have any thrift shops in your town, you would have to try flea markets or garage sales. You can simply find on the internet where and when there is a flea market in your town.  I never recommend buying vintage cameras online, you never know if it works.



If you want to buy an analogue vintage camera you have to think about a few things. For example. Do you actually want to use it, DIY-ing with it, or maybe just put it on your desk in your room as decoration? If you want to DIY with it or use it as decoration it doesn’t matter if it works or not, and it would probably be better to buy a camera that doesn’t work anymore. Those are cheaper of course. (If you have found a broken one, ask the shop owner how much the camera costs. Wait for the prize, THAN tell the owner it is broken. That way the price will go down way more than when you say its broken BEFORE asking the price…) How to DIY with your broken camera?



If you want to make awesome crazy looking vintage pictures with an analogue camera, you have to think about what film size you would want, cause buying a camera for 126 mm film wouldn’t be a good idea since 126mm film is not produced anymore. If you are a beginner, I recommend a 35mm film camera. It uses 35mm film, which is still produced and relatively cheaper than 120 an 110mm film. If you’re not sure what film the camera you found uses, just flip open the back. (Probably by pulling, pushing or spinning a button at the right side of the camera or pulling up the film spool) Inside the camera there will be a sticker or carving telling you what film it uses.
35mm film:



After you found out your camera has a usable film size, you are going to check if the light meter works. This is something you can only check if you have a camera with light cells. just find the light cell, look through the lens, put your hand over the sell. If the light meter works, a little pinn will show that there is not enough light. Or, with – for example – the olympus trip 35, the shutter will block.


The next thing you have to do is kinda weird. Smell you camera…. YES, smell it… If your camera uses batteries, this is the way to find out if the batteries have leaked. If they have leaked, your camera is probably completely useless. If you only smell the old leather and dust from the attic, everything is okay. If you smell a real salty smell (almost dog pee smell-ish… yukk …) your batteries have leaked.
The last thing I check is the shutter. Wind up you camera and pretend to take a picture of yourself. Look at your lens, If you see the shutter opening and closing while taking the picture, the camera is ready to buy! If you’re not sure, open the back again. (if there is still an old film in it from the previous owner, take that out, you cant use that anyway) When you opened the back, look inside the camera, wind it and take a picture again. If you see a real quick flits light through the camera lens, you can buy your camera.
Have fun buying your analogue camera! If information is missing, please comment. This is what I do when I buy a camera, IT’S POSSIBLE that your camera still wont work after these steps.
Have a nice thrift shop/ flea market analogue hunt!


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Thrift shop Saturday Typewriter

YES! finally went to the thrift shop today! The last few weeks I wasn’t able to go because I was so busy with school. I went to the local one in Breukelen…. BAM, BINGO! I bought a beautiful typewriter. At first I was scared it wouldn’t work, but it does! The ink could be empty, but even after all those years, that still works!

I bought this one for a friend of mine, he wanted to have a typewriter and I promised to buy it for him. Next time I’ll buy one for myself, I LOVE THE THING!

Its so pretty:

But, I can’t leave the thrift shop with something for myself… so I went for an old film camera! It is a vintage Bell & Howell Optronic Eye 8mm Movie Camera and it uses 8mm Auto Load Cartridges.  I can’t find a lot information on this one, but I’ll have to de some better research and I will tell some more about it in one of my analogue camera posts. The only thing I could find is that its from the early 60’s

so here is what this awesome camera looks like:

 

Have a good day!!

 

 

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