Topic: Weekend 20th - 22nd October 2023

[Kai-san]

I don't shoot much colour, but I had some expired rolls of Fuji C41 in the fridge that had to be used. These two shots are from my farm up north. Late September is the rose hip season, and there is plenty of them if you can bother to dry them or make a jam.

Contax 645 / Zeiss Planar 2.0/80 / Fuji Pro 160NS

[Francois]

You have a farm up north?
Lucky...
I couldn't dream of the day I could afford one!
Since the pandemic, the prices have skyrocketed on pretty much any kind of property in the country.
Even the most remote place now sells for close to 400 000$

[Kai-san]

A farm that has been taken over by inheritance cannot be freely sold on the market in Norway. I have taken over this farm on inheritance, but I had to bail out my siblings according to a value set by a state approved appraiser. The laws here are very strict on this issue, and that is to ensure that the farm land will continue to be used for food production. I am leasing out the farming and grazing rights to a neighbour, if I hadn't done that I would have been forced to run the farm myself. This rule applies even if you had purchased a farm on the free market. This is not a large farm so 90% of the value is on the buildings, farm land in itself is quite cheap. If the farm has a forest that can be used for timber it will be added to the value, which is the case here. Ten years ago the value for this farm was set at $120.000 which includes a barn built in 1954 and a house built in 1985, all in good order. I'm lucky because this farm borders on a fjord, so I have a shoreline of about one kilometer. But the conditions for mooring a boat is quite poor, so the boathouse is used for storing garden furniture. The boat landing is filled with large stones washed up by the winter storms.

[Phil Snaps]

I grabbed a second-hand Lomo LC-A 120 a few weeks ago, and it came with an expired roll of Lomo Turquoise. I had never shot it and eh… it is ok. Except the guide marks that somehow transfered through the paper. I think I prefer the look of some redscale.

[Francois]

A farm that has been taken over by inheritance cannot be freely sold on the market in Norway.

Quite different from here.
In Canada, everything is open to the free market. And in Quebec, farmland is a bit protected, but the law is really not up to the task of protecting it. And out conservative provincial government really hates farmland, so that's not helping.
The law states that you can't change the zoning or a piece of farmland unless you replace it by an equivalent surface somewhere else on the municipality's territory. So, what they do is that they find every little bit of useless scrap land and zone it as agricultural so that they can take some nice fertile soil and convert it to whatever. But the land that get converted to agricultural zoning is always so inaccessible and impractical that there is no way to use it for growing food.

And then there's what I call "law bending"... that's a new one. Like in my city they allowed a company to take some nice fertile soil and build a vertical hydroponic farm on it. The ground will all be covered by concrete, but it's still a farm; so it's OK by the book. Yet we have plenty of abandoned industrial spaces that could be used for that. Luckily that project seems to be stalled for a long time.

[Harvey]

I didn't realise that last weekend was Toy Camera Day until I read Becky's post. I'm just so out of touch. Weirdly however, before I read it I was out with a new Holga Panoramic, I know, and at the same time I don't know. Anyway, these are the better of the 6, cropped because I can only scan to 6x9 anyway but the falloff on the lens is pretty stark so the middle is the best bit.
I have half a mind to mod it, there's a video about in on YouTube, but it doesn't give full enough details of the part between the lens and body. Probably need a Francois on it 

[Kai-san]

I grabbed a second-hand Lomo LC-A 120 a few weeks ago, and it came with an expired roll of Lomo Turquoise. I had never shot it and eh… it is ok. Except the guide marks that somehow transfered through the paper. I think I prefer the look of some redscale.

Nice shots Phil! I agree about the film though, not something that's on top of my list.

[Pete_R]

I didn't realise that last weekend was Toy Camera Day until I read Becky's post. I'm just so out of touch. Weirdly however, before I read it I was out with a new Holga Panoramic, I know, and at the same time I don't know. Anyway, these are the better of the 6, cropped because I can only scan to 6x9 anyway but the falloff on the lens is pretty stark so the middle is the best bit.
I have half a mind to mod it, there's a video about in on YouTube, but it doesn't give full enough details of the part between the lens and body. Probably need a Francois on it 

You mean stick a decent lens on it?

I did that to mine some years ago, then sold it so don't have it anymore but I have some pictures of what I did if that helps. I used an Angulon 90/6.8

[Harvey]

Hi Peter,
Yes, just that. Did you use a macro extender behind the lens to enable focus? Pictures would be great. I like the idea of that format, just as a change, but couldn’t justify throwing a lot of money at it. Lenses seem to hold their value.
Did you consider it a worthwhile exercise?
Thank you.

[Pete_R]

Did you consider it a worthwhile exercise?

I did at the time but must have lost interest otherwise I wouldn't have sold it. But I've always liked the 2x1 format.

Here's a few pictures with as much as I can remember.


I removed the whole front section with the lens and shutter. As I planned to use a lens mounted in a shutter I didn't need any of it.


I also removed the hotshoes and blanked the holes but you could leave them in place as an accessory shoe.


I flattened the moulding on the front to give me a flat surface to work with, cut out a hole and mounted a M42 lens flange which I must have got from a camera I guess.


I used a macro adapter with M42 threads front and back. I must have done some tests on the lens first to determine the back focus distance before selecting the macro adapter. That might also have been part of the reason for flattening the front of the camera - maybe the lens mount needed to go back a bit.


Then I got a metal M42 body cap to use a a lens board and cut a hole in it to mount the lens



I did some focus tests and marked the macro adapter with some distance points.

That's about as much as I remember.

[Harvey]

Thanks Peter, that is much appreciated. It is a tempting conversion. I may well be back to you 😁.