Stanley Field Revisited #3, originally uploaded by Maciek 1955.
Have you ever been in a location so bleak that you, the photographer were probably the most interesting photographable phenomenon around? That’s what Stanely Field is like.
On top of that, it’s ful of dog shit. Last Sunday I had to wipe dog sheet of my groundglass after it fell off the camera. CAMBO cameras have this annoying feature – a single latch to release the belllows, or the film hoder, which tends to fall to the ground without any warninig.
My bad luck continued when that evening I was stupidly outbid for an 8×10 camera for restoration. But then it turned again, when I found an only marginally dodgy CAMBO viewing hood on ebay.
It’s arrived this morning – so bye-bye the dark cloth – I shall not miss you at all! This will also allow me to do some pinhole work, which was nigh impossible squinting my eyes out under the dark cloth.
For what it’s worth – the photo of a traffic cone in Stanley Field is not nearly that dark in reality, dark though it is, it’s just flickr way with pics. It’s been taken at 80 ISO – which I now realise is also my wordpress nick.
