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FuckingWater is a small game made by me and my friend Johannes during a 48h time-frame.
It won the Gotland GameJam we attended and placed second in Face Punch “Fucking game challenge” that happened to play out at exactly the same time.
It’s a 2D platformer where you play as a little blue thing hunting smaller beings to grow and avoiding being eaten by the bigger red stuff.
Here you can see a typical level you are the blue circle trying to get to the blue platform to get to the next level and the red rings are hunting you.
It doesn’t seem as the GameJam games will be made available anywhere. So I figured I might at-least post the winner for all you blog readers, enjoy.
I have been looking at rangefinder camera for a long time now because I was curious of the focusing mechanics and the promise of a smaller size and quieter operation than SLRs was intriguing.
The Yashica CC ticked most of my check-boxes for what I want in a camera; black body, manual aperture settings and fast glass (35mm F1.8).
What I have noticed so far is that the light-meter triggers with the shutter-button… That’s alright but the shutter is quite soft and it’s easy to accidentally trip the shutter when you just want an exposure reading, the light-meter also feels a little to simple only showing a red arrow if overexposed and a yellow if the shutter-speed is slower than 1/30s other than that there is no indication of what shutter-speed you are using!
This camera was not easy to find and I ended up having to get it shipped to Sweden from Japan and when I got it it didn’t have a battery which seem to be quite common since it uses an old lead-based battery that hasn’t been produced for more than 10years! Luckily Yashica state that the camera can operate safely on batteries ranging from 5.7-6V so of I went and bough a 4LR44 battery popped it in and everything seem to work without any problem take that Ebay adapters!
Why analog? there is something romantic about using an analog camera not being able to check the picture directly but having to wait until all your 36shots has been exposed, something I think might actually be good leaving you with less trash to sort and forcing you to think more before you shoot! Besides going digital on a rangefinder is not anything that I felt was possible right now, I’m a student and the only options you got is Leica and Epson and while it’s true that I will buy an Epson RD1 as soon as I can afford the $1K secondhand pricetag it still feels a little steep.
I’m 7 exposures in on my first roll of Kodak Tmax 400, a film I choose because this camera was marketed as a night-camera when it first came out, so it only felt fitting to use some high ISO film and the film had to be black and white because it’s gonna be developed with Caffenol.
Dan Bull gives a perfect description of facebook
package drawings by nils
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If you were not looking for my work-blog that’s okay too and actually much easier, see that link up there? DO NOT FOLLOW IT!
At the beginning of this year I was looking for a faster lens to my old Canon 450D, I wanted a 50mm F1.4 but the canon branded one was just to damn expensive. After some more reading I realized that a lot of people are using M42lenses on canon cameras because of the similar flange-distance between sensor and lens mount they are more or less a perfect match. 
Now this setup works but there are some things I have noted the first one is that the 450D has awful back-focus when looking through the wiewfinder you need to stop the lens down to about F4 before you actually get accurate focus confirmation installing a focus-screen made life a little easier but I still can’t confirm focus faster than F2.8 after that you have to go on feeling turning about two mm to get it right.
This as far as I know is a limitation in the hardware and has with the target audience of the 450D to do, basically Canon don’t think people with cheap cameras will buy that fast glass or something. The result from this is that I started using the Live-View with 5X zoom when I wanted more accurate focus shooting wide open it’s not ideal but it works.
The Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm is just great and I paid less than 1/5 the prize of the Canon EF 50/1,4 USM. granted I don’t get Image-Stabilizing or Auto-focus, but that’s alright with me…
