Topic: Talk About Hard Work...

[Skorj]

... on any given day out with a camera, I might ask one or two people to pose. But, with my buying a Polaroid `Studio Express` passport photograph camera for spare 600 SE changable backs (same mount you see), I picked up a near mint example (with two perfect backs & slides) for less than 20 dollars.

Great idea I thought; take it to the street and shoot for matching sets of faces. Set for 4x the same was going to be pretty boring, so I set it for 4x different and started asking passerby. That's about eight people asked for one complete photograph - based on a 50/50 `yes` strike ratio...

In one afternoon, I hit about six months of normal asking. Exhausting, especially if you're doing it in Japanese and explaining why, when there really was no reason. Still, interesting result. Not sure I'll be doing it again though. Skj.



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[Skorj]

I'd be scared if someone pointed this at me in the street too...

(1/60 & 1/125, f8 - f32, fixed focus 1.2m & 1.92m)

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[moominsean]

sweet! i've been curious about these cameras. they are fairly cheap on ebay. i love both of those prints! a lot of work? worth it, i think. how well does it focus in the distance? you could use it for some non-portrait experimenting. takes regular 100 types, correct?

[Tammy]

That's very cool.  And you are very brave for asking so many people.   I have a Mini Portrait.  It doesn't have the option for individual lens, though.  I don't think.  anyway, these things are cool! and I love the project you have here.

[Tammy]

If you don't mind, here is a sampler from my MiniPortrait.

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[Francois]

I'd be scared if someone pointed this at me in the street too...

You sure it ain't some alien from a Godzilla style movie
(maybe it's Mothra's baby... run for your lives  )

Somehow, it reminds me of my imitation Action sampler...

[astrobeck]

Cool shots!
Did any of the subjects see the finals?
Looks like fun, and me thinks taking some shots of unrelated things as a sort of bizarre  montage would be fun.

Neat camera.
 

[beck]

Scared? Amateurs. Skj's gear is like John Lee Hooker's, Crawlin' Black Spider and he rules his den!




That is some camera and a heck of a lot cooler than my ace of speds. I should charge up and throw a pack in it anyhow and see what she does. I can even watch American Idol on it too, it's so stinking big. You came away with some really groovy shots and it figures. That first set rocks. Say, that's a Cleveland Indian....how funny.

Here's my clunker...

[Skorj]

If you don't mind, here is a sampler from my MiniPortrait.

Not mind at all... in fact, this was kinda what I was thinking when I took it out. Maybe it still has potential instead of straight up shooting. That spider Beck just looks creepy! It does not focus much further then 2.5 set on smallest aperture. It does however take all 100 series films, yes. I showed some the end results, but most folks just hurried off - they did get my FW meishi though.

[Francois]

Is there a filter thread on the lenses?

Maybe you could fit different colored filters on the lenses for a more Pop Art effect?

Or put 4 wide angle converters to get more (apparent?) depth of field...

Or do both

Or different model converters, tele and wide on the lenses in a random way?

And make a movie monster of a camera 

[cpierce]

I really like the shots, they remind me of the photo booths shots in square format.  I think it would great to have a collection of these "Street Portraits"  and you can really stretch the film.

[artpunk]

Skorj, I think you're brave taking this out onto the street, I'd be afraid of getting arrested!

Not wanting to scare anyone with my miniportrait I've had to be content to use everyday (and not so everyday) household objects and family members as photographic victims, I mean subjects.
Initially even my family ran screaming when confronted by me carrying the thing (well, who could blame them, really)

Is there a filter thread on the lenses?
Maybe you could fit different colored filters on the lenses for a more Pop Art effect?
Or put 4 wide angle converters to get more (apparent?) depth of field...
Or do both
Or different model converters, tele and wide on the lenses in a random way?
And make a movie monster of a camera 

No thread but i found I could slip an old polaroid close-up filter onto the lenses to do a bit of experimentation.
Please excuse the poor quality of some of these images...

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[Francois]

On the madness picture, it looks like it is a missing board with magnetic numbers at the bottom of each pictures

No thread but i found I could slip an old polaroid close-up filter onto the lenses to do a bit of experimentation.

Maybe a reducing adapter ring glued in place would do the trick...

[Tammy]

This is terrible. Now I feel I must use my beastly miniportrait for more fun like Artpunk here. 

crazy people...