OK - I'm on a roll here....

i want to hear about the weirdest configuration of equipment you've ever had to use.
Example - shooting bees at my mother's house - and all I had was a standard and a 105 portrait lens - but she had a beautiful spread of bee-attracting plants in her yard. The solution - extension is extension - and f-16-22 (my exposure for my flash bracket) is a constant -so why not - get a core from a toilet paper roll, and tape the sucker to the lens and to the camera (OK - so I wrapped the tube with some tin foil first -but that;'s OK too)
The resulting images were not "perfect" - but I got a couple of 'em that were pretty OK. (problem, at this magnification, was getting the tube taped to the body - really no way of doing it and keeping the lens aligned with the body - but you're composing at the shooting aperture - so what you see is what you're gonna get - it's just a pain to determine the focus (too much depth of field - even for a macro shoot).

Not much wierd equipment use here.....aside from the pinhole camera I made using scrap mat board pieces lying around the darkroom. Taped together using black electrical tape. A piece of a coke can with a pinhole (duh) for the aperature. And instead of film, I used color RC paper.... This was while I was at school so I had use of an automated color print processor to develop my "negs" promptly. got some funky images though....I'll see if i can find them.... Oh, yeah...I also used the developed un exposed trailer of color film (orange) as a filter to get rid of the color cast of the exposed paper.....

Ahhh after searching the archives of this forum...... Here are some images made with the box-o-lite 45.

This one was made on bw film and a flash pop.

Here is one using color photo paper.....scanned straight image....and one inverted in photoshop.

One final one....a studio shot....filtered negative image....and the result after inverting in photoshop.....

Here's an idea I had after reading a thread in an other forum. Not much adjusting here, I just set the cam to macro program mode and shot. The right pic shows some sugar grains, the grid size of the background is 1 mm, performance is not too bad in the middle but really poor at the edge.

cheers
Thomas

Not me, but a sexually-repressed friend at school started asking LOADS of questions about developing..... eventually found out he'd had his point & click 35mm snapshot up against the binoculars pointing at a neighbours' bedroom..... he he he. Never saw the results though, dunno if he ever got around to it even.....funny though. (",)

A very inventive person on another list came up with diffuser ideas for the Sony DSC F707 and I tried them after he sent me an image of what he was talking about. This is the image he sent me. It works pretty well actually... Magick Michael

Attached Link: All Forum Thread with pics of the cam

i hated the camera, it never worked proeprly (the shutter release was all screwy), so I mangled it beyond repair and turned it into a pinhole camera. I tore off the (welded on) lens (With great difficulty), and kept the shutter curtains. Behind the curtains I put a little piece of tinfoil with a small (though I thought it too big) pinhole. I shot half a roll of black and white film with it, and to my surprise, it actually worked. I shot a full roll of Kodak Ektachrome slide film while in mexico last summer, though i still haven't developed it. Prolly be a waste when i do, but hopefully someshots will have turned out, especially at Teotihacuan... link has the pics.

...I also used the developed un exposed trailer of color film (orange) as a filter I used this taped over an electronic flash to warm it up. Nothing really too strange. See my nifty enlarger in the bio Michelle did for me in the resource center...