The Minolta Rapid 24 uses 35mm film in "Rapid" cassettes, and takes square photos. For this series I loaded a cassette with colour negative film, and put it through the camera three times, the first time with a red filter, then a green filter, and finally a blue filter.

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Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user.
For my first use of the Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera I used tap water as the liquid for the lens. Although this camera came with a 35mm back, I decided to use the 120 back from my Belair X 6-12. I used the 6cm x 12cm mask, which gives six exposures on a roll, I also used the 90mm viewfinder instead of the panoramic frame finder that came with the new camera, as I though this would give a better idea of the framing, which I know from previous experience with the Belair is a bit rough and ready anyway. The lens comes with Waterhouse stops for f16, f22, f32 and f168 (pinhole). I tried all of these, and also without a stop, which is probably around f11. With a slow film and winter light, I used multiple clicks for two of my negatives to ensure enough exposure, with two of the others I used a tripod and approximately 2 seconds exposure, the one without a stop was a single hand held exposure. The pinhole photo taken indoors was grossly underexposed at 3 minutes.
Next time I use 120 film with this lens, I'll use the 6cm x 9cm film plane mask, as the coverage of the lens doesn't extend to 12cm.
This one was taken at f32 and involved around 40 clicks of the shutter.
Expired Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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Blend of three images taken on a Kiev 60 medium format SLR with a Zodiak 30mm fisheye lens. I shot 12 frames looking up as I walked around the base of the tree, and have experimented with blending them together. The film is expired Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film, cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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The Minolta Rapid 24 was my first proper camera, it belonged to my aunt, and she gave it to me when my increasing interest in photography coincided with her failing eyesight. It uses 35mm film in "Rapid" cassettes, and takes square photos. For this series I loaded a cassette with colour negative film, and put it through the camera three times, the first time with a red filter, then a green filter, and finally a blue filter. This crop is equivalent to two frames.

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Having spent a decade working my way through my camera collection at a steady and uninterrupted rate of one per week, this year I'm relaxing the pace, and revisiting all the cameras that I used for taking photographs, as opposed to collecting and displaying. I'm planning to do it in chronological order, using a different one each month.
Last month I used the Secret Sam Spy camera, this month I'm using the Diana, it was given to me by my grandmother, but I can't remember if it ever had film in it, or was just used as a toy. My original Diana has gone missing, but I found one in a charity shop for £3.50 complete with its original box.
I used expired Kodak Portra 400 film, which I developed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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