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A Day Out With The Sprocket Rocket And Expired Lomography Colour Film

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Sprocket Rocket. Whenever I can’t find anything to watch on YouTube, I always seem to gravitate to watching videos about peoples’ experiences with this panoramic toy camera from Lomography. Yet whenever I try to use mine, I’m filled with dread that I’ll break the film, like I did the first time. So it sits in its box, along with an Agfa Clack and a Reader’s Digest camera that I’ve always been promising myself that one day I’ll flip its lens. But whenever I’m going out, that ridiculous looking blue beastie always screams out to me, ‘take me! Take me!’ Normally I just ignore it, but last week I felt sorry for the Rocket, and out of its box it came.

The plan was actually to test a new (to me) camera, the Proud Chrome Six III, a heavily beat up medium format folding camera, and to try out an Industar 69M 28mm pancake lens that had fortuitously been recalibrated for micro four-thirds. Since the Sprocket Rocket was a bit of an afterthought, I didn’t want to use a ‘good’ film in it, so I rummaged around for something to use.

I have a small ‘collection’ of films that I keep in a box, just to see how they behave under ‘ambient’ conditions. They don’t go in the refrigerator, just sit on the side. Some of these are slightly expired now, including a few rolls of Lomography ISO 100 colour film (best before c.2023, I reckon). I had one of these rolls in the Zenit 11 for the Shitty Camera Challenge’s #CrappyCommieCameraParty, and it never got finished. So I rewound the film into it’s cassette in the Zenit and then reloaded it into the Rocket. I made a ‘best guess’ as to the number of exposures, then added the Rocket to my camera bag along with the Proud Chrome Six and an Olympus Pen E-PL3 and the Industar-69. 

https://flic.kr/p/2sdtGNb

It was a bright but overcast day, and we headed off to Barra and Costa Nova for lunch at the Marisqueira, the most wonderful fish restaurant. I also had a chance for a post-lunch walk around Costa Nova  — a ‘digestivo’, if you will — and at a derelict structure just outside of town. One of my favourite spots, but one that’s not too easy to photograph when the sun is in the wrong place, since the wall of the building can cast some strong shadows. The hazy day provided bright enough conditions for the Rocket without the inconvenience of harsh shadows. Not my favourite situation, but hey.

https://flic.kr/p/2sdp1ri

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Normally, Lomography recommend using ISO 400 film with this camera, but I reckoned that all being well, if I left the camera on the ‘cloudy’ setting, it might work with the ISO 100 film, and fortunately it did. After completing the film, I had to wait a couple of weeks as the stormy weather started again. But a couple of days ago the weather cleared and I popped the film into Forever Blue in Aveiro.

https://flic.kr/p/2sduTUL

After development, I scanned the film at home with an Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner and Epson Scan software. I tried to use the Lomography 35mm scanning frame, so that I could include the sprockets in the final image, but for some reason it didn’t work. I need to look into the scanning process for this. If you’re interested, I’ve posted the whole series in an album on my Flickr if you want to see the rest of the images.

https://flic.kr/p/2sdunMW

I was quite surprised that I got anything from this film, but in the end it worked quite nicely. As a panoramic camera, it doesn’t hold a candle to the Horizon (or the Widelux[x], or the X-pan), but it’s fun to use and I can always see the appeal. I’m also a bit agnostic over Lomography films. I absolutely adore Lomochrome Turquoise and the Red (though I’m leaning a bit more in favour of Harman Red), but this ISO 100 film actually produced some nice results.

https://flic.kr/p/2sdp1q1

The first image, of the driftwood on the beach at Barra, has two large white splotches that I thought was dust on the glass, but a closer look revealed that they were in fact images from the Zenit. Looks like I didn’t wind the reloaded film far enough after all. There’s still a couple of rolls sitting around, and now I’m wondering what camera I can put them in.

https://flic.kr/p/2sdunLt

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Sunshine Through Bishop Yards

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/sunshine-through-bishop-yards-justin-farrimond.html

Bishop Yards in the market town of Penrith, Cumbria. The past tightens its grip as sunlight breaks through the ages.

#PhotoOfTheDay #BelieveInFilm #Photography #Art #Print #BlackAndWhite #Heritage #FilmPhotography #Townscape #Architecture #Vintage

Happy Bell Ringer

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/happy-bell-ringer-justin-farrimond.html

A darker dreamscape from a time not quite forgotten.
On the streets of Lancaster, after the heartache but before the discovery.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Dreamscape #Photography #Art #Print #PhotographyIsArt #InteriorDesign #Townscape #Lancaster

Fyrisån - Central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#blackandwhite #sverige #sweden #town #townscape #uppland #Monochrome #monochromephotography

Fyrisån - Central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#blackandwhite #sverige #sweden #town #townscape #uppland #Monochrome #monochromephotography

Fyrisån - Central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#blackandwhite #sverige #sweden #town #townscape #uppland #Monochrome #monochromephotography

Fyrisån - Central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#blackandwhite #sverige #sweden #town #townscape #uppland #Monochrome #monochromephotography

Fyrisån - Central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#blackandwhite #sverige #sweden #town #townscape #uppland #Monochrome #monochromephotography

Jeff's Hot Carpet House

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/jeffs-hot-carpet-house-justin-farrimond.html

The hottest house in town, next door to the shag pile and woven Axminster.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Dreamscape #PhotographyIsArt #Hot #Corner #Townscape

I took this photo in central Uppsala (Sweden).
#city #cityscape #night #nightscape
#sverige #town #townscape #fineartphotography #samsung #landscapephotography

Crosby Street Maryport

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/crosby-street-maryport-justin-farrimond.html

Crosby Street, Maryport, Cumbria.
Not quite the streets of San Francisco.

#PhotoOfTheDay #BelieveInFilm #Photography #Art #Print #Maryport #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #Townscape

Das Dada Tarot <Das Stadtbild>

The Dada Tarot <The Townscape>

Idea Writing Command AI Realisation

Meister Jeder, Dadaist, Realistiker 11/25
#dada #Tarot #AIart #Karten #Stadtbild #Townscape

Urban Fairytale

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/urban-fairytale-justin-farrimond.html

Once upon a time in Oban . . .

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Architecture #Gothic #BlackAndWhite #Townscape #Oban

Eye Spy - Canvas Print

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/eye-spy-justin-farrimond.html?product=canvas-print

Wandering downtown I felt eyes upon me.

#PhotoOfTheDay #BelieveInFilm #Photography #Art #CanvasPrint #Architecture #EyeSpy #Townscape #Pareidolia #FilmPhotography #MonochromeMonday

Through The Arch

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/through-the-arch-justin-farrimond.html

Through the arch and down the street on a hot afternoon in an old Greek town.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Photography #Art #ArtPrint #Architecture #Tourism #BlackAndWhite #InteriorDesign #Townscape

This would look great hung in your hallway . . .

Mile End Road at sunset, including the Half Moon Theatre, on the right.
#photography #MileEndRoad #HalfMoonTheatre #EastLondon #townscape

Probably the last dump of photos for #TheCompoChallenge this week as the weekend probably involves DIY - this one is for @hiro too as he wanted to see more “secret garden” style shots.

#Phorography #Allotments #TownScape #Gardens

https://www.wacoca.com/tour/428960/ 散策 冬の瀬戸地区 福井県南越前町 4KHDR #counryside #japan #JapaneseCountryside #JapaneseVillage #nature #RuralArea #RuralJapan #RuralLife #ScenicViews #snowscape #townscape #TraditionalHouses #WalkingTour #WalkingTravel #WinterDay #南越前町 #散歩 #散策 #田舎 #福井 #福井ツアー #福井県 #福井県ツアー #福井県観光 #福井観光

Semur-en-Auxois - a very French town
#photography #SemurEnAuxois #Burgundy #France #townscape

📍: Welshpool Lock,
ℹ️: lock
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.6578904340665&mlon=-3.14580870777624#map=17/52.6578904340665/-3.14580870777624
📸: Photo by John Clift on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/37699599@N00/24645895088

#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #wales #uk #flickr #powys #buildings #townscape #canals

Random photo of the day.

#photography #random #photooftheday #POTD #dailyphoto #OttawaPhotographer #travel #Italy #CinqueTerre #Manarola #townscape #Mediterranean #painting #specialeffects #filter #Prisma #colour

After a disappointing experience with the KMZ Horizont I loaded the remainder of the film into my other panoramic camera, the Sprocket Rocket. I was a bit nervous about this since my last experience with the Rocket had also resulted in a broken film (which is still actually in a cupboard somewhere undeveloped).

However, I ‘bit the bullet’, as they say, trimmed the broken film leader to size, and loaded the remainder of the Lomochrome Turquoise film into the Sprocket Rocket. Unusually it was actually a sunny afternoon, although by the time I headed out the sun was starting to dip towards the horizon.

I took a walk around a few of my favourite spots in Águas Boas, including the church which to my mind for a modern building is quite spectacular, and the recently improved park, which now gives a lovely view of the bandstand from the road. (I could have gone onto the park and photographed from my preferred location below the bandstand but even though it was a sunny day it was still really muddy.)

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of the Lomochrome Turquoise film I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, which worked quite well.

After several exposures around the village I came to the end of the roll. Remembering my previous experience with the Sprocket Rocket rather than rewinding the film straight away I went home and readied my trusty dark bag in case it looked like the film might jam in the camera again. I needn’t have worried, the film rewound smoothly back into the cassette. Along with the strip from the Horizont I took the remainder of the film to Forever Blue in Aveiro and a few days later the image files, scanned beautifully with the sprockets and all, arrived in my in box.

I was really happy with the results. Yes, the views of the bandstand were a little dark, but by this time the sun was going behind the trees and even opening the aperture to the cloudy setting wasn’t enough to get much detail out of the image. The earlier photos though, especially of the church, came out really well. 

I’m still waiting to see what happened with the Horizont, the images weren’t returned with the rest of the files and I’m keen to see the negatives, but the panoramas from the Sprocket Rocket were lovely and of course it was a treat to use Lomochrome Turquoise again. 

https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/urban-photography-in-aguas-boas-with-the-sprocket-rocket-and-lomochrome-turquoise-11-january-2024/

#AguaBoas #Architecture #Building #Lomography #Panorama #Portugal #SprocketRocket #Street #Townscape #Turquoise #Urban

After a disappointing experience with the KMZ Horizont I loaded the remainder of the film into my other panoramic camera, the Sprocket Rocket. I was a bit nervous about this since my last experience with the Rocket had also resulted in a broken film (which is still actually in a cupboard somewhere undeveloped).

However, I ‘bit the bullet’, as they say, trimmed the broken film leader to size, and loaded the remainder of the Lomochrome Turquoise film into the Sprocket Rocket. Unusually it was actually a sunny afternoon, although by the time I headed out the sun was starting to dip towards the horizon.

I took a walk around a few of my favourite spots in Águas Boas, including the church which to my mind for a modern building is quite spectacular, and the recently improved park, which now gives a lovely view of the bandstand from the road. (I could have gone onto the park and photographed from my preferred location below the bandstand but even though it was a sunny day it was still really muddy.)

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of the Lomochrome Turquoise film I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, which worked quite well.

After several exposures around the village I came to the end of the roll. Remembering my previous experience with the Sprocket Rocket rather than rewinding the film straight away I went home and readied my trusty dark bag in case it looked like the film might jam in the camera again. I needn’t have worried, the film rewound smoothly back into the cassette. Along with the strip from the Horizont I took the remainder of the film to Forever Blue in Aveiro and a few days later the image files, scanned beautifully with the sprockets and all, arrived in my in box.

I was really happy with the results. Yes, the views of the bandstand were a little dark, but by this time the sun was going behind the trees and even opening the aperture to the cloudy setting wasn’t enough to get much detail out of the image. The earlier photos though, especially of the church, came out really well. 

I’m still waiting to see what happened with the Horizont, the images weren’t returned with the rest of the files and I’m keen to see the negatives, but the panoramas from the Sprocket Rocket were lovely and of course it was a treat to use Lomochrome Turquoise again. 

https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/urban-photography-in-aguas-boas-with-the-sprocket-rocket-and-lomochrome-turquoise-11-january-2024/

#AguaBoas #Architecture #Building #Lomography #Panorama #Portugal #SprocketRocket #Street #Townscape #Turquoise #Urban

After a disappointing experience with the KMZ Horizont I loaded the remainder of the film into my other panoramic camera, the Sprocket Rocket. I was a bit nervous about this since my last experience with the Rocket had also resulted in a broken film (which is still actually in a cupboard somewhere undeveloped).

However, I ‘bit the bullet’, as they say, trimmed the broken film leader to size, and loaded the remainder of the Lomochrome Turquoise film into the Sprocket Rocket. Unusually it was actually a sunny afternoon, although by the time I headed out the sun was starting to dip towards the horizon.

I took a walk around a few of my favourite spots in Águas Boas, including the church which to my mind for a modern building is quite spectacular, and the recently improved park, which now gives a lovely view of the bandstand from the road. (I could have gone onto the park and photographed from my preferred location below the bandstand but even though it was a sunny day it was still really muddy.)

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of the Lomochrome Turquoise film I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, which worked quite well.

After several exposures around the village I came to the end of the roll. Remembering my previous experience with the Sprocket Rocket rather than rewinding the film straight away I went home and readied my trusty dark bag in case it looked like the film might jam in the camera again. I needn’t have worried, the film rewound smoothly back into the cassette. Along with the strip from the Horizont I took the remainder of the film to Forever Blue in Aveiro and a few days later the image files, scanned beautifully with the sprockets and all, arrived in my in box.

I was really happy with the results. Yes, the views of the bandstand were a little dark, but by this time the sun was going behind the trees and even opening the aperture to the cloudy setting wasn’t enough to get much detail out of the image. The earlier photos though, especially of the church, came out really well. 

I’m still waiting to see what happened with the Horizont, the images weren’t returned with the rest of the files and I’m keen to see the negatives, but the panoramas from the Sprocket Rocket were lovely and of course it was a treat to use Lomochrome Turquoise again. 

https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/urban-photography-in-aguas-boas-with-the-sprocket-rocket-and-lomochrome-turquoise-11-january-2024/

#AguaBoas #Architecture #Building #Lomography #Panorama #Portugal #SprocketRocket #Street #Townscape #Turquoise #Urban

After a disappointing experience with the KMZ Horizont I loaded the remainder of the film into my other panoramic camera, the Sprocket Rocket. I was a bit nervous about this since my last experience with the Rocket had also resulted in a broken film (which is still actually in a cupboard somewhere undeveloped).

However, I ‘bit the bullet’, as they say, trimmed the broken film leader to size, and loaded the remainder of the Lomochrome Turquoise film into the Sprocket Rocket. Unusually it was actually a sunny afternoon, although by the time I headed out the sun was starting to dip towards the horizon.

I took a walk around a few of my favourite spots in Águas Boas, including the church which to my mind for a modern building is quite spectacular, and the recently improved park, which now gives a lovely view of the bandstand from the road. (I could have gone onto the park and photographed from my preferred location below the bandstand but even though it was a sunny day it was still really muddy.)

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of the Lomochrome Turquoise film I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, which worked quite well.

After several exposures around the village I came to the end of the roll. Remembering my previous experience with the Sprocket Rocket rather than rewinding the film straight away I went home and readied my trusty dark bag in case it looked like the film might jam in the camera again. I needn’t have worried, the film rewound smoothly back into the cassette. Along with the strip from the Horizont I took the remainder of the film to Forever Blue in Aveiro and a few days later the image files, scanned beautifully with the sprockets and all, arrived in my in box.

I was really happy with the results. Yes, the views of the bandstand were a little dark, but by this time the sun was going behind the trees and even opening the aperture to the cloudy setting wasn’t enough to get much detail out of the image. The earlier photos though, especially of the church, came out really well. 

I’m still waiting to see what happened with the Horizont, the images weren’t returned with the rest of the files and I’m keen to see the negatives, but the panoramas from the Sprocket Rocket were lovely and of course it was a treat to use Lomochrome Turquoise again. 

https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/urban-photography-in-aguas-boas-with-the-sprocket-rocket-and-lomochrome-turquoise-11-january-2024/

#AguaBoas #Architecture #Building #Lomography #Panorama #Portugal #SprocketRocket #Street #Townscape #Turquoise #Urban

After a disappointing experience with the KMZ Horizont I loaded the remainder of the film into my other panoramic camera, the Sprocket Rocket. I was a bit nervous about this since my last experience with the Rocket had also resulted in a broken film (which is still actually in a cupboard somewhere undeveloped).

However, I ‘bit the bullet’, as they say, trimmed the broken film leader to size, and loaded the remainder of the Lomochrome Turquoise film into the Sprocket Rocket. Unusually it was actually a sunny afternoon, although by the time I headed out the sun was starting to dip towards the horizon.

I took a walk around a few of my favourite spots in Águas Boas, including the church which to my mind for a modern building is quite spectacular, and the recently improved park, which now gives a lovely view of the bandstand from the road. (I could have gone onto the park and photographed from my preferred location below the bandstand but even though it was a sunny day it was still really muddy.)

The Sprocket Rocket is a simple Lomography camera with just one shutter speed of about 1/100s (and ‘bulb’) and two apertures, one for sunny and one for cloudy weather (about f16 and f11, respectively). Given the 100-400 ISO latitude of the Lomochrome Turquoise film I kept the aperture mostly on the sunny setting, which worked quite well.

After several exposures around the village I came to the end of the roll. Remembering my previous experience with the Sprocket Rocket rather than rewinding the film straight away I went home and readied my trusty dark bag in case it looked like the film might jam in the camera again. I needn’t have worried, the film rewound smoothly back into the cassette. Along with the strip from the Horizont I took the remainder of the film to Forever Blue in Aveiro and a few days later the image files, scanned beautifully with the sprockets and all, arrived in my in box.

I was really happy with the results. Yes, the views of the bandstand were a little dark, but by this time the sun was going behind the trees and even opening the aperture to the cloudy setting wasn’t enough to get much detail out of the image. The earlier photos though, especially of the church, came out really well. 

I’m still waiting to see what happened with the Horizont, the images weren’t returned with the rest of the files and I’m keen to see the negatives, but the panoramas from the Sprocket Rocket were lovely and of course it was a treat to use Lomochrome Turquoise again. 

https://keithdevereux.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/urban-photography-in-aguas-boas-with-the-sprocket-rocket-and-lomochrome-turquoise-11-january-2024/

#AguaBoas #Architecture #Building #Lomography #Panorama #Portugal #SprocketRocket #Street #Townscape #Turquoise #Urban

Early 1980s, my grandparents left the city centre for the renovation of this old farmhouse with walled moat, a former fief of the St Peter's Abbey, Ghent. The farm and its immediate surroundings are today protected #townscape #wetland #Scheldt #landscape

https://id.erfgoed.net/afbeeldingen/248940

Early 1980s, my grandparents left the city centre for the renovation of this old farmhouse with walled moat, a former fief of the St Peter's Abbey, Ghent. The farm and its immediate surroundings are today protected #townscape #wetland #Scheldt #landscape

https://id.erfgoed.net/afbeeldingen/248940

Early 1980s, my grandparents left the city centre for the renovation of this old farmhouse with walled moat, a former fief of the St Peter's Abbey, Ghent. The farm and its immediate surroundings are today protected #townscape #wetland #Scheldt #landscape

https://id.erfgoed.net/afbeeldingen/248940

Peña de Bernal ⛰️🧗

#photography #townscape #bernal #crags #tour

Seascape, townscape and landscape in one picture!! Using the zoom to look across the mighty Firth of Forth from Porty to the Fife coast, town by the water, snowy hills behind.

More pics on my Flickr (which yesterday's uploads took past the 25, 000 pics mark!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/?

#edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #snow #neiger #landscape #seascape #townscape #photography #winter #FirthOfForth #Fife

Seascape, townscape and landscape in one picture!! Using the zoom to look across the mighty Firth of Forth from Porty to the Fife coast, town by the water, snowy hills behind.

More pics on my Flickr (which yesterday's uploads took past the 25, 000 pics mark!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/?

#edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #snow #neiger #landscape #seascape #townscape #photography #winter #FirthOfForth #Fife

Seascape, townscape and landscape in one picture!! Using the zoom to look across the mighty Firth of Forth from Porty to the Fife coast, town by the water, snowy hills behind.

More pics on my Flickr (which yesterday's uploads took past the 25, 000 pics mark!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/?

#edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #snow #neiger #landscape #seascape #townscape #photography #winter #FirthOfForth #Fife

Seascape, townscape and landscape in one picture!! Using the zoom to look across the mighty Firth of Forth from Porty to the Fife coast, town by the water, snowy hills behind.

More pics on my Flickr (which yesterday's uploads took past the 25, 000 pics mark!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/?

#edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #snow #neiger #landscape #seascape #townscape #photography #winter #FirthOfForth #Fife

Seascape, townscape and landscape in one picture!! Using the zoom to look across the mighty Firth of Forth from Porty to the Fife coast, town by the water, snowy hills behind.

More pics on my Flickr (which yesterday's uploads took past the 25, 000 pics mark!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/?

#edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #snow #neiger #landscape #seascape #townscape #photography #winter #FirthOfForth #Fife