Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing
With what seems like everyone and their mother using an iPhone to make “fauxlaroids” it almost seems silly for me to actually carry around my recently purchased SX-70 camera and spend money on the last remaining stock of Polaroid film (which is getting damn expensive at about $6 a shot when you factor in the shipping from Hungary). Did I say “almost” silly… no “almosts” about it. I don’t think I’ve seen a Facebook photo update recently without the fake Polaroid treatment being applied.
Vote Early And Vote Often: Digital Camera Giveaway
One of my pictures of The Golden Gate Bridge is a “finalist” for inclusion into Pingg’s San Francisco Designer Series. If my image wins the vote, I would get a Fujifilm FinePix F70EXR digital camera. Well, as we all know the best way to win any election is to buy your votes… so, if you head over to the Pingg voting page and vote for me and then retweet the following, I will give away the camera to one lucky person (if I win it that is):
RT @jeffsinger Digital Camera Giveaway: http://bit.ly/6OCg7q
The Polaroid SX-70 Will Not Do 1080P!
1080P HD video, 12,000 ISO, 65 megapixles and on and on and on. Cameras are getting more and more sophisticated and advanced. So with all this technology available, what do I do? I go out and buy a Polaroid SX-70 from the 70’s that I can barely get film for.
Still Here
Yes, I am still here. It’s been a while since my last blog post. I’ve been working on a non-photography project quite a bit lately and now that project is underway I’m ready to get back to the photography blog. I’ve got a few photography projects I’ve been working on and some I’m about to begin as well that I’m hoping to write about here soon.
Mom Polaroid
Here’s another Polaroid I took, this time of my mom at her condo in Aptos.
As I’m working on these Polaroid scans, I realize, to get these shots I’m carrying around this fairly cumbersome camera (Mamiya RZ67-II) and ending up with a scanned photo not much better resolution than that of a camera phone… in fact, I think my iPhone takes sharper pictures when comparing the scans. But still, there’s something about the look of the Polaroid that I like. I’ve always thought sharpness was overrated anyway. One thing I don’t like about digital is that most images come out clinically sharp. I like a little softness in images.
