nothing better to do: July 2012

Thursday, 12 July 2012

The Speccy

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed over the years that the posts have gone from quite text oriented to very picture oriented.

There are a number of reasons for this, but mainly it has to do with the fact that not everything needs writing about, or is indeed even worth writing about.

There are stories which could have been told, but weren't.

And, no doubt, stories the needn't be told that were.

This isn't one of those stories, but it is a story.

The evolution of this blog does in some way reflect the evolution of my photographic thinking. There's the obvious, if you can work it out, chronology of my actual photography, but there's also the changing process where more and more I want the image to speak for itself, to stand up and say something (anything) without the need for explanation or context or anything.

In this post-postmodern art world environment that's not really an approach that is easily understood. Pop into almost any gallery, or pick up a book, and regardless of how good or original or intelligent the photos are there is invariably text which tries to explain, to contextualize, and often that text is worse, less original and less intelligent than the photos they're trying to explain.

But all this brings me around to this. A photo. From late-1999. And a list.

A photo which speaks for itself (it's not art, it's just a pretty pic for crying out loud). And a list which may, or may not answer regular queries.

Camera model

[none, i.e. cameraless photography]

Agfa Clack

Agfa Click I

Agfa Isolette I

Agfa Isolette III

Agfa Optima III S

Apple iPod Touch

Canon AF35M

Canon EOS 10D

Canon EOS 1D

Canon EOS 1D MkII

Canon EOS 450D

Canon EOS 500

Canon EOS 50E

Canon EOS 550D

Canon EOS 5D

Canon EOS 5D MkII

Canon EOS 7D

Canon Ixus III

Canonet QL 17

Diana +

Fuji APS Disposable

Fuji G617 Panorama

Fuji Marine Disposable

Fuji Panorama Disposable

Haminex 110FR

Haminex 110TF

Hasselblad 503CX

Hasselblad Xpan

Hasselblad Xpan II

Holga 120S

Horseman 45FA

Horseman 45HD

Horseman 4x5 View Camera

Kodak B+W Disposable

Kodak Brownie 2

Kodak Flash Disposable

Kodak Panorama Disposable

Kodak Pocket Instamatic 300

Konica Auto S3

Konica Eye

Konica Pop

Lomo Action Sampler

Mamiya C220

Mamiya C330

Mamiya RB67

Mamiya RZ67

Meg

Nikon D300

Nikon D90

Nikon E3100

Olympus OM-1

Olympus Superzoom 110

Olympus Trip 100R

Olympus Trip 35

Olympus XA2

Pentax Auto 110

PF Pinhole

Pinhole 110 cartridge

Polaroid 350 Land Camera

Polaroid 636 Close Up

Polaroid Square Shooter 2

Polaroid SX-70

Samsung GT-I9100

Toyo-Field 45AII

Widelux 1500

That is, I believe, the entire list of cameras that I have shot on over the years. To be more specific, when I say "shot on", I mean used for my own purposes. And photos from most, if not all, of those cameras have appeared on this blog at one time or another.

I have, also, at times used other cameras belonging to other people and taken the odd photo or two. For example, I know I have used, from one friend, a Linhof 4x5, a Leica, and a Nikon DSLR, and maybe other stuff, and a Nikon D200 from another friend, and either a Nikon F4 or F5 from another friend, and maybe a Nikon F90X from another friend.