Last week I got myself a new toy from a second-hand camera shop. 
It’s a Seagull 4B-191, an old Chinese medium format TLR (Twin Lens Reflex). After using my friend Kat’s Holga for a while, I was tempted to start experimenting in the world of nice big 60mm x 60mm 120 film.
Using it is great fun; just the handling of the controls, the flip-up lid, the quirky horizontally mirrored top-down viewfinder with shallow depth of field all make the necessary tweaking quite enjoyable.
It’s a great change from 35mm, and way better than my convenient but ephemeral and bland compact digital. There’s no light meter, so I’ve been attempting to use the digital for the exposure readings. Fingers crossed that it works!
I ran off my first roll of film down in Melbourne over the weekend, and am very eager to see the results. I braved the cold weather to catch up with fellow Blender developers Campbell ‘ideasman‘ Barton, and Canadian import Martin ‘theeth‘ Poirier who’s down here on an internship. Good times were had by all, with hanging around the city, chit-chat, eating, drinking and lots of cool ideas. It reminded me of the fun of the last Blender Conference, but with less people and no 17th century castle. Can’t wait till this year’s!
Update 23 June: A picture from the meetup.
Hi,
nice camera! Who is the small girl on the picture?
Jiri
She’s Cam and Cathy’s little girl, India. I don’t know any more about her than that, really – you’ll have to ask Cam
Love the set. You are a very patient man, resisting digital