{"id":4688,"date":"2011-05-29T02:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2011-06-12T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:31:44","slug":"a-night-with-the-lc-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"A Night With The LC-W"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting here at my desk at 2:05am … not long after returning from a fun evening (long one!) out with Jimmy & Noreen (from ThirtySix). I dropped by ThirtySix to collect some film and we decided to go grab a quick dinner and then go test out the Lomo LC-W. I am not one who has the patience to do nite (long exposures!!! zzzz) shooting but since I was out already … I thought I could give it a go. Honestly … my biggest problem was figuring out the correct (or at least close) exposures to use.<\/p>\n

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Noreen was around to be our ‘guardian’ … making sure we both don’t touch beer for the night. Ermm … as it was rather warm … we had no choice but to gulp down 2 bottles of beer. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Using the LC-W for the first time and it has to be night shooting? OMG! Jim gave me some blu-tac and I covered the light meter on the camera and then happily … randomly … ‘blur-ly’ fired away. The biggest joke of the night was when I was walking towards Jim with my camera (still on the tripod) and he asked me ‘why is your shutter still open?!!’. Gosh!!! Hahaha! I was actually using the stopwatch on my phone to time the exposure … and I stopped the stopwatch instead of stopping (closing) the shutter! OMG! Gone case!<\/p>\n

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Actually there were more screw-ups (by myself). I kept forgetting to advance the frames! Somehow using the shutter release cable … I was still able to press it (the cable release) and the camera still went ‘click’ … making me think it (the frame) as already been advance. Anyway … I guess that didn’t really open the shutter (Jim hates this word tonight) and hopefully something will turn out okay. Frankly … I have no confidence if any photo will turn out decent this time. Hahahaha!<\/p>\n

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A very cool Argus camera … used by Noreen<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was pretty stressful for me and after some time … I realised I had only taken 18 shots. Yeah … that’s all for the night. Guess I’ll have to try finish the remaining frames tomorrow and make a dash to the lab (perhaps to be laughed at by the guys there).<\/p>\n

Photos or not … it was still an enjoyable evening. Jim & I were joking and clowning around asking each other what exposure times to use, asking each other if we did advance the film etc. It was BLUR vs BLUR. Hahaha!<\/p>\n

See this photo below and you will see the most serious one just now. Hahaha! She’s gonna kill me!<\/p>\n

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Hmm. Okay … I’ll risk my life and leak a couple of photos I took of Noreen in action. She is the star tonight by doing some super ‘stunt’. Exposing a shot for 12 minutes (or was it 13?) … by holding on to the shutter release button! She used the Sprocket Rocket and I just can’t imagine having to hold … and not move (much) … for that long!!! Special news leak … not from wikileak … is that she was desperate to go for a leak at that time. Hahaha! Ooops! I’m so dead now!<\/p>\n

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I like this last photo below. That’s Noreen during the looooooooooooooooooooooooooong exposure.<\/p>\n

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Hope tomorrow I will have time to finish the rest of the roll. Oh … one other thing … anyone has any idea what aperture the LC-W has? I heard it is a fixed f4.5 and from the look (from behind the cam with the rear door open) it seems to be a round shaped aperture ‘hole’ unlike the variable one on a LC-A. Is that true? If that’s true … it sucks a little. Right?<\/p>\n

Jim & Noreen … thanks for the laughter & drama (ahem!) just now. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sitting here at my desk at 2:05am … not long after returning from a fun evening (long one!) out with Jimmy & Noreen (from ThirtySix). I dropped by ThirtySix to collect some film and we decided to go grab a quick dinner and then go test out the Lomo LC-W. … <\/p>\n

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