The beginners guide to Analogue photography. 3 --shutter speed--

 

Already the third post on the beginners guide, for the other parts, just click:

Part one

Part two

 

So we have come to the third most important part of photography. Shutter speed.

Shutter speed goes hand in hand together with the aperture to make a good exposed picture. The shutter speed is the speed of which the shutter opens and closes when you take a picture. You can put you camera on a tripod, put your shutter speed on 1 second, and take a better picture in the dark. Of course that’s only possible with objects that don’t move if you want a sharp picture.

In an SLR camera, which is the sort of camera I focus on, the shutter is part of a mirror. That mirror reflects the image into the film. You can actually see it if you take of you lens.

The camera on the picture is one I got just a few days ago, that’s why its dusty on the inside. I still need to clean it up and repair it. That’s why I can show you the mirror. If you take of your lens, note that it is not good for your camera to hold your camera the same way as on this picture. There is a possibility that dust, rain, or something else could come in there. Always hold the opening towards the ground the most of the time. (When you need to change the lens you should probably know this)

 

The shutter speed settings are on your camera. Most of the cameras have the following settings: B/1/2/4/8/15/30/60/125/250/500/1000/2000/4000. These numbers aren’t in seconds of course. The 1 is one second, the 2 is 1/2 second, the 500 is 1/500 second. So is 1/4000 a real quick shutter speed.

 

There has to be a lot of light to make a picture with such a quick shutter speed, cause there is not that much time for the light to expose the film. Though, a high shutter speed comes in very handy if you want to have a sharp picture. A picture taken with a low shutter speed has more chance that the object you’ve taken a picture of has moved and isn’t sharp.

The B setting is the setting you can use if you want your own shutter speed. You can wind your film and press the shutter button for as long as you want. the shutter will be oven as long as you hold your button down.

That is why aperture and shutter speed are so important and go hand in hand with each other to make a good exposed picture that is sharp too!

To make it more clear what shutter speed does, here is a picture of a falling object, taken with two deferent shutter speeds. I found it on the internet.

 

Now you know the 3 basics of analogue photography. But I’m not done yet! You’re now able to take a good sharp picture with your analogue camera. But what about the awesome double exposures, or redscales? I’m going to do a few more post on how to play with your settings to get some awesome (and maybe a bit weird) pictures from you camera!

Analogue #5–The Praktica TL-1000—GIVEAWAY?!

 

 

 

It’s time for a new analogue camera to show you guys! This time it’s the Praktica TL-1000. This camera is not that old. It started producing in 1980 and stopped producing in 1984. This is a beautiful camera to look at! Real eye candy. Though, I found it disappointing the black grip is made of plastic. The whole camera feels a bit like a toy camera because of that plastic.

I Do love the simplicity of the camera. It has just a few settings, but is able to make some pretty good pictures. (for what I have seen, I haven’t got the pictures back from development). I have been looking for lenses for this camera in thrift shops. A good plus for this camera. There are loads of lenses in thrift shops everywhere!

Tip: If you want to buy lenses, bring your camera with you, and fit them on your camera body. Do not buy them without fitting. Secondly, never forget to check if there are scratches on the lens. If there are scratches, just use the same method which I had told you guys in my post about how to buy the right vintage camera. FIRST ask how much it costs, THEN tell the owner it’s broken. You’ll end up paying a lot less.  Why buy a lens with scratches? well, if you got yourself one for a small price (I would give 1,50 euro’s for a broken lens)  You can take pictures with them, you’ll get some cool effects. Here is a picture taken with a scratched lens (there is some dust on there too)

One other thing.

I was having a good idea about something. I was thinking about a giveaway when I hit 50 followers (only for the followers on glipho). As soon as I hit that 50, I will write a post about a really cute camera. If you would like to win it (free for everybody, I will send it to you and I will pay the shipping costs) you have to comment on that post, and you have to be following me. Good idea for al those who love vintage thrift shop junk! (More information about this giveaway in the actual giveaway post)

So what do you think?

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.

Analogue picture time!

Today I got the pictures back from development! These pictures where the first ones from my Olympus OM-10. I;’m so happy with the outcome!

My Olympus!

I have had a school assignment for my art class. I made a series of pictures that all had to have some kind of emotion in them. THANKS Ruben, for letting me put water in your eyes and make you cry! haha!

I actually asked Ruben to shout as loud as possible in the picture above!

The other pictures are just some random pictures I took to get the 25 pictures I needed before I could take out the roll. For the analogue people out there: I used a Lomography ladygrey 35mm 100ISO roll, and had my diaphragm on 5.6!

I took one of those random pictures for you guys to see!

Have a nice week! I’ll be learning the whole time :(

Oh ok, I will sleep and eat too, don’t worry….

 

 

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Exams coming up!

Today I officially, seriously started learning for my exams. My first exam’s are in two weeks! I just finished learning about 29 pages of social sciences, which is a lot of work! But I hope It’s all in my head now! Still got about 120 pages to go in two weeks.. And art history, which I like a lot more since it’s about pop art! But still, a lot. Between those two subjects I just had to go outside and get some fresh air. The weather is really good right now. I picked up the dog at my grandmas house, took the camera and my music with me, and went for a little walk. It’s so pretty outside!

Different subject:

About yesterday, my family was here for my birthday! Had a lot of fun! Got a few pretty awesome presents too!

I got this old camera from my grandparents! LOVE THEM!

 

And these I got from my aunt and uncle.

Even my niece had made me a little arty present! (she is nine)

My other aunt an uncle had gave me this awesome old book. It is a register of the art that was in the museum of Amsterdam in 1892 (the book is from 1892!!!!) It has 120 heliogravures.

And my boyfriend gave me something too! SO SWEET!

My summer in analogue pictures

I was thinking about making my blog post about my vacation and show some pictures of my trip to Turkey.  But since I got all my analogue pictures at once on my mail I decided to make one big story covering my whole summer. All the pictures on this blog post (except for the first two) where made with my analogue camera’s. Two Olympus trip 35’s and one Kodak ektralite 600.

The Kodak:

The Olympus:
So what did I actually do this summer? Lets start at the beginning of it. The last few weeks of school. The weather as getting warmer and nicer. the vacation was so close nobody could concentrate on learning and going to school. For me, the first real summer day was when we made a trip to “De Strook”. The teachers had all decided we could get free from school and all hang out together and have some fun. We had a nice barbecue and went swimming together.


So for me this was my first summer day. It was also the first day of warm weather (about 25 degrees centigrade). 
Then the actual vacation begun and it started good. We – my mother brother and boyfriend and I- had a few trips to the beach in “Zandvoort”. I had a really good time there. We normally don’t make any trips to the beach, and I hadn’t seen de beach for over a few years then. This summer we made quite some more beach trips to Zandvoort.   We had a lot of fun!

The last highlight of my summer was my vacation to Turkey. I had never been to Turkey before. I went together with my boyfriend. Who came with the fantastic idea to go somewhere for a week. We had found this amazing hotel in the old center of Antalya. If you ever plan on going to Antalya. The Alp Pasa Botique Hotel is really beautiful and affordable too!














So that was, in a short story, what my summer was like.

I hope You have had A great summer too! Lets hope the winter is going to be as much fun as the summer!

Moving to NYC in 1951

Today, I thought it would be nice to do some DIY-ing! Which I did! I had brought an old film from the thrift shop with me. I get them for free because you can’t know if the film has been out of its casing. Nobody wants to buy film that could be damaged. I wanted to make a cover for my photo album out of the damaged film by cutting them in strips and glue them on the cover of the album.

I had to go to my grandma to get some things I needed to make the cover. I came to her home, finding her almost hidden in her closet. She was looking at her old postcards from the 1950’s. She had actually kept a lot of them in a box in her closet. We sat there for a while, going true all those cards. Reading some of them. Then she gave me a few of them! Which is AWESOME! I got a bunch of cards from – I think – her aunt.

For what I could get out of the cards was that a friend of my grandmas’ aunt had moved from Holland to NYC in 1951. She writes how she loves it there. How all her bags where opened at the airport, and how she would love to hear from her (the aunt) soon. Gosh, sometimes I think by myself: “ wouldn’t it be nice to have lived as a young person growing up in the 50’s?” In the 1950’s the Dutch economy grew very fast. The Dutch people where getting richer and richer. Which made them able to move to NYC(!!!).

The imprint says APR. 25 1951

I’ve got a few postcards from in the war. From around the 40’s. I wasn’t able to figure out what the cards say because of the handwriting. But they look pretty awesome don’t they?

OK. Back to my cover. This is what I did with my album!

Enjoy the rest of the week!