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"There is something going on in my part of town..."   Here's a little peek at the progress made on my work with the children's book Magpie.

The Heath A few years ago, in London, with an Olympus XA.

The 127-film format is one of many that cropped up during the last century, and all but disappeared after some time. Nowadays the big stars are 135-film and 120-film (220 also, which is twice as much film on a 120 roll). I've mentioned the 620-film format in my post about the Kodak Duoflex TLR, which is the same size negative as 120-film only on a different (and uncompatible) spool. Some great cameras were made for the 127-films. The image size is most commonly 40x40 mm which is 12 images on a roll. The second most common seems to be 40x25 mm which produces 16. A rare one is the 40x65 mm. I got me a Foth Derby 127 camera a while back (in the picture above). It didn't work. They rarely do, I came to realize after some research. That's not strange, really, since they were manufactured before the war, and sported cloth shutters similar to your Canon SLR:s and rangefinders of the 50s and up to the eighties. Glue and cloth ages a tad in 70-odd years. The Derbys with worki...

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I was lucky to find me a Samsung nv7 digital camera for €10 which happened to be really good for b&w photography. The battery was missing so was purchased for €15.   All the pictures were edited for a higher contrast.    

Here's a pdf with a children's short story for Swedish readers. Det är en foto-illustrerad novell. Linn är fyra år och tillbaka på det älskade lantstället vid havet. Ett utdrag: Idag letar Linn och pappa efter fina stenar utmed vattnet. Det finns så många! Och sådana som är slipat glas, säger pappa. Han hittar en flytande sten till Linn. En pimpsten heter det. Den kan man rita med också. Linn provar på en stor sten och pimpstenen är som en grå krita. Denna dagen kommer inte mamma till stranden med mat utan de går hem och fikar i köket. "Konstigt att det blåser här uppe vid huset men inte vid havet," säger Linn. "Det är för att det är frånlandsvind här," säger mamma. "Stranden ligger skyddad från vinden som blåser inifrån land." De vuxna dricker kaffe och allihop äter de syltkakorna som Linn och pappa bakade häromdan. "Det är jättegott," säger mamma. "Jag vet," säger Linn.

Another for Swedish readers: Jag har skrivit en kampanjmiljö alternativt en alternativ världsbeskrivning som till exempel kan användas till rollspelet Ur Varselklotet. Alltihop är inspirerat av Simon Stålenhags målningar, som jag sett dem på nätet. Sedan har jag lagt till Kalla Krigets logik utifrån att de flygande fordonen och den andra "främmande" teknologin utvecklats ur forskningen kring stormakternas kärnvapenprover. Du kan läsa den här .

This is for Swedish readers: Jag har författat en kampanjmiljö till det nya rollspelet Mutant: Hindenburg. Den kan laddas ner gratis på Fria Ligans forum här . Du behöver inte logga in för att kunna ladda ner den. Om det är något för dig så kom gärna med feedback! Här är en illustrativ aktuell text klippt från the Guardian 2020-01-21. Support my work with ko-fi ! Visit my camera shop at Etsy ! See my art here and here ! Join the camera modding group here !

I'm currently working on a children's book project called Magpie. These pictures featuring motorcycles are part of my sketching process. Check my ko-fi page getOurArt for updates. The below house will be displayed during the weekend of cultural activities called Vinterspår [Winter Tracks] in our town, on the 2nd and 3rd of February. I will display Home Portraits, sketches and photographs. It's called Winter Tracks for a reason...

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I put my mitts on an Agfa Isomat-Rapid camera. It is (yet another) a camera which uses a now obsolete 35 mm film cassette format - the Rapid. Back in the day you would purchase a film cassette - in appearance much alike the common 35 mm one - which fit into the Rapid system cameras produced by several brands. The film cassette has a peg which tells the camera which ISO/ASA the film is to be exposed at. So you didn't need to keep track of that when loading the camera. In the camera there is also a take-up cassette which collects the exposed film. It is the take-up cassette - which also can be reloaded - that is handed over to the lab for developing. I use the camera mainly with the intention of using it as a cheaper testing/trial camera for square format composition, which usually is the standard for 120-film cameras (middle-format) but is more expensive to buy and develop. Using the Isomat I can expose something like 40 pictures on 35 mm film which I myself load into a feeding...