A comment from elsamuko on a previous post led me to this Lomo Script. I was chuffed to note that elsamuko updated the colours in the script based on my post.

Try it yourself

Simply follow the instructions on the GIMP Plugin Registry page and then watch your image transform before your very eyes. Have some fun with the effects you get.

You can use red, blue, green or neutral color effects and even add a vignette. If you wish, tweak the effects further by selecting the layers and adjusting them manually.

I usually try out a couple of variations before staying with one. It’s easy enough to “CTRL+Z” to undo the effect and then change the script settings to try again.

In the examples below only the color has been selected, nothing else. Look how dramatically you can change your pictures!

Green

Before Lomo

After Lomo

Blue – my fave

Before Lomo

After Lomo

Red

Before Lomo

After Lomo

If you have used the Lomo Script yourself – or decide to -  make sure to leave a link to your photo in the comments so we can check it out.

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Using the Lomo Script with the GIMP

Once again 2008 proved to be an incredibly productive year for the many photographers who read the JMG-Galleries blog. The results of this “Best Photos From 2008″ blog project puts a twist to the normal “Best of Photo” list by aggregating links to the work of 93 photographers from around the globe who are passionate and dedicated to their craft.

The results from “Best Photos From 2007″ by JMG-Galleries Blog Reader’s were impressive, but this year not only did the number of participants exceed expectation the quality and vision of those who submitted were exceptional. This year participants ran the gamut of experience from enthusiasts to professionals.

Enjoy and good luck picking out your favorite from these great submissions

• “My Top 10 Favorite Photos of 2008” – Jim M. Goldstein
• My Favorite Shots of the Year – View from the Little Red Tent by Edie Howe
• 2008 Favorites – Photine by Laurie Ballesteros
• My Nephew – Amit Goyal
  My nephew woke me up in the morning and was in a very chirpy mode when this was clicked
• Another world (+Vorher/Nachher) – Visuelle Gedanken by Martin Wolf
  
• Boy, Hanoi – The Sun Shines & The Igloo Melts by Jon Gresham
• Best Photos from 2008 – Abraham Neben
• Apocalyptic Capitalism – Sultana Sandwich by James Hill
• Top 10 Photos of 2008, My first year in Wisconsin – Sierra Visions by Steven Bourelle
• My Best Photos: 2008 – Shutter Photo by D Travis North
  This past year was a huge growth year for my digital photography skills which I feel is exhibited quite nicely in my photo favorites of 2008.
• Best Photos From 2008 – G Dan Mitchell Photography
• Protesting Prop 8 - Quan Photography by John Quan
• Bir y?l böyle geçti… – Caglar.ca by Caglar Tukel
  Most of Photos taken during our traveling around Turkey and hiking around our hometown, Izmir.
• My best shots of 2008 – Jonesblog by Bryan WIlliam Jones
• Flamingo and Desert Landscape – pl?dys’s photoblog by Mike Reys
  Both pictures are from one of the most beautiful places on earth: Chile’s Atacama desert. The salt lakes there provide for some stunning colours and beautiful wildlife.
• Suspended – Mark Groves Photography
• My Favorite 10 Images from 2008 – IM Digital by Ivan Makarov
• My Best Photo of 2008 – Matt Ward Photography
  This photo was taken in Oct at 7am after a cold night in Atlanta, GA.
• Highlights of 2008 – Lori Jackson Photography
  In 2008, I picked up my camera again after a year long hiatus following pregnancy and my son’s birth.
• Favorites from 2008 – Adventures Through The Lens by Rebecca Jackrel
• Top Ten Photos of 2008 – Chris Moore Photography
• My Photo Record – Kriz Cpec Photo Blog
• Best of 2008 – Catavino by Ryan Opaz
• Looking Forward and Back – Graf Nature Photography by Mark Graf
• Lloyd’s Favorites of 2008 – L.D. Cross
• My Favorite Photos from 2008 – Epic Edits by Brian Auer
  A selection of my favorite photos from 2008, broken down by each month and supplemented with a few thoughts.
• Derryclare Lough – Focus Pocus by Albert MacSweeny
  My best photo of the year was when I was lucky enough to get a still lake in the usually turbulent west of Ireland
• Best of 2008 – News and Views by Dave Wilson
• Needle – Andel’s Photoblog by Andel Früh
  This photo has been shot with the kit lens (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6) in retro position (front lens to the camera)
• Year in Pictures – Marcin Retecki
• 2008 Top Ten – Lois Elling
• My Best Photos of 2008 – Out of My Mind by Steven L. Mullen
  These are travel and nature shots taken in Michigan, China, and locally.
• One from 2008 – Hockley Photography by Aaron Hockley
  It’s a photo taken at night, looking across a bridge towards another photographer also taking a picture of the same ferris wheel as I was.
• 2008 in Pictures – Sawlani Photography by Hitesh Sawlani
• My Top 10 Photos for 2008 – by Neil Creek Photography
• Best of 2008 – The Quiet Picture by Minna Kinnunen
  My 10 favourites from 2008, everything from flower closeups to landscapes and starry nights!
• Best of 2008 – by Stig Nygaard
  Just a quick little mixed selection of what I consider my best photos from 2008
• My Top Ten Photos from 2008 – Korn on the Blog by Justin Korn
  Of the 1,800+ images I uploaded to Flickr this year, these are what I thought were my top 10.
• Blog Project: “your Best Photos from 2008″ – Jim’s Photography by Jim Wheeler
• My Best Photos from 2008 – TrevorCarpenter.com by Trevor Carpenter
• Best Photos of 2008 – by Dave Reichert
• 2008 Favorites – by Beth Madison
• 01/01/2009 Best of 2008 – Brad Barton Photography
• 2008: My Favorite Photos – My Digital Life by Jeremy Brooks
• 2008: The year in photographs – Katie the Scrapbook Lady by Katie
• Gotham. Or maybe London – SFT Photography by Steve Thomas
  I love the dark and moody feel, combined with the futuristic look of the building. I really enjoyed shooting it!
• My Best Photos of 2008 – Malphoto.com by Andre Maltais
  I’m particularly proud of these submissions this year, as it seems I’ve made some great strides in my photography from the beginning of the year.
• Best of 2008 Project – Photos From The Top Floor by Carsten Fischer
• La Arcada seating on a rare rainy October morning – gZphotoGraph
• Jaguar – by Jarrod Erbe Photography
  This jaguar image was taken at the Milwaukee County Zoo. The background was generated using a combination of Aperture, Photoshop Elements, and DFT Light.
• Best of 2008? – Suzy Walker, Underwater Photoblog
  My top ten fav travel, underwater and macro photos taken in 2008
• My best shots of 2008 – TemujinPhoto Blog by João Almeida
• Best of 2008 – by Rick Goldwasser
• My Top 10 Images of 2008 – The Jim Stamates Collection by Jim Stamates
• #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 – Mannedspace: Photographs by MT Fanders
• Best 10 of 2008 – by Duffy Knox
• Future Christmas Card – by Massimo Belloni
• Best Photos of 2008 – MIZSPONTANEITY: A Girl With A Camera by Elaine
  I got a Nikon D40X for Christmas 2007, and although some of these photos were with my trusty Sony W70 point-and-shoot, these are my favorite 10 results of my first year with a digital SLR.
• Best of 2008 – Changing Perspectives by Jenni Brehm
• My Best of 2008 – by Eliya Selhub
  In 2008, I have found myself increasingly drawn to animals as subjects, and a slight cartoonish absurdity always appeals to me.
• My Best Photos From 2008 – Lilahpops – Plunging into Photography by Anthea Brown
  Looking back over my photos for the past year shows my increasing interest in post-processing experimentation alongside my favourite macro format.
• My top 10 favorite photos of 2008 – The Taeleman’s Blog by Kris Taeleman
• My Favorite Photos of 2008 – Coulter Photos by Scott Coulter
• Favorites of 2008 – XGray Vision by Stephen Gray
• My Top 10 Favorite Images of 2008 – Cornforth Images by Jon Cornforth
  Spectacular nature and wildlife photography, photos, and pictures by award winning professional photographer Jon Cornforth.
• Sitting Backwards on My Horse – latoga photography By Greg Lato
• Top ten images of 2008 – Enlightened Images by Gary Crabbe
  These are some of the image I took in 2008, and which rose toward the top of the – I Like – pile.
• Best 10 photos of 2008 – Have Camera Will Travel by Paul Dymond
  Images from professional Australian travel photographer Paul Dymond which ironically were all taken pretty close to home.
• Best of 2008 – Heidi Donat
• Best Photos of 2008 – by Luca Filigheddu Photography
• Favourites of 2008 – by Chris Brown
• Best of 2008 – by William Kahn
• Pics of the pops 2008 – fotoVoyager by William Fawcett
• My Top 10 Photos of 2008 – Always Breaking by Gary Hegenbart
• Best of 2008 – by Trevin Chow
  This is a set of my best photos that I took during 2008 which is a combination of Flickr’s “interestingness” meter and my own selection.
• Best of 2008 – Hotel Yankee Foxtrot by Alex McGeagh
  A collection of the better images captured in a progressive and productive year for me.
• Top 10 Photos of 2008 – Digital Kloc Photography Blog by Brian Kloc
• Burrard-Lucas Top Ten Photographs of 2008 – Burrard-Lucas Photography by William Burrard-Lucas
  We are brothers from the UK with a shared passion for wildlife photography – in 2008 we followed Meerkats in the Kalahari, stalked Jaguars in the wetlands of Brazil and waded through swamps at night to photograph Caimans…
• My best 10+3 pictures of 2008 – All Day I Dream About Photography by Antoine Khater
• Best of 2008 on Highway 89 – Ann Torrence Photography
  Transecting the west from Mexico to Canada on US89.
• Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance – by Dave Fitch
  A railway bridge in Leith [Edinburgh] that was restored and then left to rot. It’s not perfectly symmetrical, but then neither is the bridge
• My Top 10 Photographys of 2008 – Nuwomb Bits by Scott Webb
• Best of 2008 – Matt Sallee Photography
• My 10 best photos of 2008 – Stephen Trainor Photography
  Mostly landscapes, mostly of the Southwest, but with a hint of other anglophone countries.
• 10 in 2008 – k|d loftis photography
  My favorite images from 2008 which include weddings, maternity and newborns, families and babies and a few personal images from the year.
• My 10 Favorite Images of 2008 – Della Huff Photography
  My ten favorites from 2008 include California landscapes and cityscapes, with a couple of extra goodies thrown in for fun!
• Best Photos of 2008 – by Dave Schumaker
• Best of 2008 – by Jay Goodrich Photography
• My best photos from 2008 – All Narfed Up by Bryan Villarin
  Choosing my best photos from 2008 was really hard to narrow down, especially since it was my first year with a SLR camera.
• Mein Flickr Photostream 2008 – Best of – by Stefan Neuweger
• My Best Photos from 2008 – Why Yet Another Photo Place by Rafa
• Best Photos from 2008 – by Daria Sukhanovska
  Only until i created this set of 13 photos, i realized how much progress i have done this year: I have traveled a lot, got one photo printed in the magazine and had my first own personal exhibition in the university library and simply had fun with my photos
• My Best of 2008 – by Phil Price Photography

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93 photographers share their best photos of 2008

Whilst the project specifications don’t limit the number of best photos you can enter, I decided to stay with a Top 10 theme. I didn’t taken gazillions of photos during the past year but I still found it difficult to select just a small number of them.

These links take you to the images on Flickr.

1. Skies are blue and white, 2. Droplets, 3. Black cat through the fence, 4. Tulip, 5. Run run run!, 6. Blue and Gold Sunset, 7. Buzzing around the rosemary, 8. Old books, 9. Blue rust, 10. Horsin’ around

I’m happy with this set. I note that two of the images are from the April 2008 Challenge – Entropy which should be incentive enough for me to participate in more projects and challenges this year.

How did you fare in choosing your best photos? If you have a Top 10 list of your from 2008 pop a link to them in the comments below.

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Project: My Best Photos From 2008

One paperclip or many, it doesn’t matter; as long as the main subject of your photo is a paperclip.

… Funnily enough, I took a photo of a paperclip for the Entropy Challenge back in April. Time to get the brain into gear for a new idea. Any suggestions?

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A clip of inspiration

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High speed photography by Chase Jarvis

• Check out the Flickr blog for more details

I have to say I’m loving the new look. Everything I could possibly want is there on the homepage. Not only do I get an instant view of the recent activity on my own photostream, I see the threads from where that activity is coming from; so if a comment is from a group I posted a photo to then parts of that thread are included. And for PRO user, those stats – do you sometimes get hooked on those stats? C’mon, we all do from time to time :-) Simply click the graph to the right of “Your Photostream” to open them up.

My contacts

I love viewing my contacts’ photos and this option is still there [note: I prefer using the Flock sidebar for this]. And if I have made a comment of faved a photo I can see recent activity on their photostreams, too. In fact, the recent activity includes the “Comments You’ve Made” option – you can change this in the recent activity settings if you wish to.

My groups

One new feature I enjoy has evitalised the social aspect of Flickr. Flickr is social media after all. Each time I visit my homepage I have a preview of the latest uploads from one of my Flickr groups … and it’s a different group each time. Try refreshing your homepage to see what I mean. The visual preview shows the latest uploads to a group rather than a simple notification telling me there is an upload. I don’t even have to click to see the new photos. But I find that I am clicking the new photos – and ‘fave’-ing and commenting more than I did with the old homepage.

Get lost

Hours at a time lost. I can lose loads of time Exploring photos on Flickr. Now it’s all there on the homepage. And do you remember when you first got hooked on Flickr? That feeling comes back. As I learn more about photography my focus on its different aspects changes and hence my interest in the groups. As you learn new techniques you become obsessed fascinated with particular groups and tend to forget about others. But, seeing the thumbnails of the recent uploads of these forgotten groups has reignited my interest. Perhaps you can give back some of your knowledge, or simply fave a few and comments on others.

Minimise your options

Too much going on with the new homepage? Simply minimise some options. Click the arrow to change the options.

Switch over

So how do you switch to this cool new look? Log in and then check to the bottom of the screen for an invite to ‘preview’ the new look. You might already have it … in which case I invite you to add your tips/thoughts in the comments below.

Can you switch back? I’m sure you can but do you think it’s worth it? After all, this will be the new look and we may as well start using it now.

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Are you testing out the new Flickr homepage?

Again, Cordelia has agreed to model for this installment in the iPhoto series of Tips and Tutorials. In this article we’ll make a cartoon effect using iPhoto.

I have a lot of photos of my cats and like many hobby photographers they can be very hit and miss. Sometimes, though, the expression caught in an otherwise ordinary photo makes deserves some post-processing.

The photo

Here we have a photo of my British Shorthair, Cordelia.

You can see that it’s quite grainy and blurry at the same time, very low light conditions and not exactly result I was hoping for. But the look on her face made me want to try to improve the photo somehow. So I decided to do a little more experimenting with iPhoto. In no time at all I had a cartoon/comic type of effect.

It’s all about smoothing the grain

The Reduce Noise option is the key to a cartoon effect. It smooths out all the grain in the image and almost gives it a paintbrush texture.

To start with I opened the Adjust settings and moved the Reduce Noise slider all the way to the right. Play around with this as you mightn’t need to always set this to maximum. In fact, I decreased it a little (to 89.0) as the effect made the image so smooth it became even more blurry. However, even with the decrease the eyes are still out of focus and as any eager amateur photographer knows – the eye have it.

So instead of decreasing the smooth paint-like effect even further I increased the Sharpness (to .71). Instantly the eyes stood out and the cartoon effect was still in tact. There was also more of an outline around the cat.

A few more minor adjustments

To polish up the final image I made a few more adjustments.

Levels and Contrast and Crop for an overall improvement. Saturation to bump up the color. The change I was most impressed with, possibly because I don’t use it very often, was the effect an adjustment to the Highlights setting produced.

Here is the Adjustments window showing the final settings.

And the final result. Voila!

If you have other iPhoto tips you’d like to share let us know in the comments. If you’d like to write a guest post about using iPhoto then get in touch with me via the Contact Form.

Related posts

• How to resize an image in iPhoto
• Add special effects to your images with iPhoto
• Use the tool in iPhoto to edit your images
• Duplicate an image in iPhoto

This is an article by Anthea Brown of Lilahpops::Plunging into Photography

Make a cartoon effect using iPhoto

The social web browser

I recently downloaded the beta version of Flock and it has quickly become my new favourite browser. It is built using Firefox technology (my other favourite browser) and comes with the tagline Flock: a social web browser. It has a large array of in-built features that make browsing the internet, checking email, uploading photos, writing blog posts all possible from the same place/application.

Get connected

Flock allows you to set up connections to your personal web network and you can activate your numerous online profiles from within the browser. There are many! Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Gmail, Yahoo!, Digg, Wordpress (in fact I’m writing this post from Flock’s Blog Editor) and much more.

Let’s concentrate on Flickr

Setting up Flickr on Flock is easy. On launching the browser go to the Accounts and Settings tab on the Sidebar and enter your Flickr account details. Now you can see your Flickr contacts when you click on the People option in the Sidebar. It’s pretty cool as you can see who on your contact list has recently uploaded photos (and therefore potentially online) without being on the Flickr website. The sidebar also informs you of new messages in your Flickr inbox and recents comments on your photos.

Check out this 53 second video to see just how easy it is:

Upload photos from Flock

I uploaded a photo to Flickr using the Photo Uploader. Flickr isn’t the only service you can connect to. It works in a similar fashion to other uploaders. One thing that wasn’t very useful was that it only let me add the photo to one set.

Do you use Flock?

Surf the net while keeping an eye on your social networks. The Sidebar is full of features. I like the interface too, very cool and slick. Just another feature … lucky today is not a work day. Whenever will I get the time to take some photos!

Are you already a Flock user? Let us know your tips in the comments. For instance, if you know how to add an image to the blog editor I’d be forever grateful!

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Have you tried Flickr with Flock?

Fireworks with a point-and-shoot

As my only digital camera is a point and shoot I found this article very useful. See the tips at A Matter of Memories for shooting fireworks – including some impressive examples:

• How to take great fireworks with a point-and-shoot
  

Flickr-ing

Neil Creek tells us the 10 things he hates about Flickr – and its users – and raises some interesting points. For me, my use of Flickr has changed as my photography experience has grown. I still very much enjoy being a part of the community and no doubt will for a long time to come. It’s what you make of it, right? I’ve even been known to give some unruly banner awards myself ;-)

• 10 Things I hate about Flickr (and its users)

How to hold your DSLR

A tiny tip from Beyond Phototips:

• Hold your camera right

Whiten your whites

Planet Photoshop has a quick tip on ensuring your white background is, in fact, white:

• Making sure your whites are really white

Sharpen from in-camera

Fotohacker explains why in-camera sharpening mightn’t be such a bad idea:

• Use of in-camera sharpening

Effects using a long exposure

Beyond Megapixels shows a variety of ways in which you can use a slow shutter speed to great effect. I especially like the zoom blur:

• Shooting with slow shutter speed

A stock partnership

JMG Galleries sheds lights on a new partnership between Flickr and Getty Images. Could this be a good thing for Flickrites?

• Getty and Flickr enter into a limited stock partnership

Storing your precious photos

Hyperphocal shares a few different ways to ensure you don’t lose your photos:

• 5 Ways to store your photos

Getting the focus right

Photodoto has excellent advice on the when, why and how of focus. No doubt your photos will improve after reading this:

• The importance of focus and quick tips on how to get it right

And last, but by no means least

Martin Gommel, incredible photographer, has another round-up of tips over at Digital Photography School:

• 20 More things I’ve learned about photography

Enjoy.

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14. What I learned about photography this week

Whilst I would dearly love to have had all the entries here there have been delays with some and I have been keen to post those that have were submitted on time (it’s been just over a month since the end of the project date). So there are a couple more people still waiting in the wings with their entries but due to other business have not yet submitted. I hope they do, and if so, you’ll see an update.

Project recap

To answer four questions and submit some photos taken with the Voigtlander Vito BL.

• 1. What attracted you to the Voigtlander?
• 2. Do you like using the Voigtlander?
• 3. How does it compare to other vintage cameras you have used?
• 4. Do you prefer modern day digital cameras to older film and vintage models?

The idea came about as I’ve had quite a few requests for a scanned copy of the Vito BL manual and it got me thinking as to what these photographers think of its performance and operation.

Perhaps if I extended the project to include other models or to vintage cameras in general I may have had more responses. But that is something I have learned for any future project I may host.

So without further ado:

Photos and verdict by Anthea Brown (me)

aka lilahpops on Flickr

Click on the corresponding link below to see the larger version at Flickr.
1. Green Door in Wall, 2. A statue watering the garden, 3. Lines and lines and lines, 4. In the garden, 5. Another sunny Sunday, 6. Afternoon at the bay

My camera belonged to my father who bought it second-hand in 1959. It’s a solid piece of equipment, totally manual and doesn’t even use batteries. He passed it on to me as my interest in photography grew – it was my first real ‘plunge’ into photography.

It’s fun to use. All the actions are manual, there are no shortcuts. You need to read the lightmeter to set the aperture, to set the shutter speed and then set the distance. Lucky for me, my father also had the rangefinder accessory which helps as it’s easy to make the wrong guess-timation without one.

For me, the most difficult action is interpreting the lightmeter although I recently discovered it doesn’t work as well as it should. I’m having better luck following the Sunny 16 rule.

Do I prefer vintage to digital? It’s a tough call and I still can’t decide. I do love my little digital point-and-shoot camera and aim to buy a DSLR in the near future. I found the Vito BL was a great introduction to learning the basics of photography and move away from automatic settings. I definitely need to improve in recording the various settings I try out as I have usually forgotten these by the time I get the film developed.

Photos and verdict by Zafer Yurtseven

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Zafer is from Turkey and here is his experience using the Vito BL:

I found the Vito BL on a local e-auction site like eBay. I am a film camera lover and although I had heard about Voigtlander cameras I had not used one. As it was cheap, I wanted to give it a try. The camera is very well built, very cute and comfortable to handle. But it lacks one major thing, a coupled rangefinder. A lightmeter can be arranged easily but not the rangefinder. If it had one, it would be my favourite camera…

I normally use two film cameras, a Leica M2 and a basic Nikon film camera FM10…

I don’t own a digital SLR as I don’t enjoy digital photography. So as my Leica is nearly 50 years old, Vito BL is not “very vintage” for me. I will keep my Vito BL in my collection but I probably won’t use it much because of the rangefinder problem. Anyway, using a Vito BL was a great experience and thank you very much for your kind help and interest

Photos and verdict by Torfinn Rosfjord

aka xTorfinnx on Flickr

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1. Tetris 4, 2. Tetris 3, 3. Jæren, 4. Tetris2, 5. Tetris1, 6. Old DDR

Torfinn is from Norway. Here is his response to using the Vito BL:

My grandfather bought it in 1957 when he was in the Norwegian navy and took many pictures from around the world. He gave me this camera when I told him that I was in an 2nd hand store looking for an vintage camera. So that was fun!

All the parts are in original boxes with the receipt :) My grandfather said “I cant understand why you want this old junk when you got all those new cameras that you can just push a button,” but he smiled when I told him that I liked to keep up the tradition, as he did … and when I eventually do a coast to coast roadtrip in the USA I can now use his camera. In a way history repeats itself…

I like this camera and that you don’t really know how the pictures are turning out before you get them processed … I like the vintage look and that I’m getting an experience into how they did it in the “old days” … I have used a Zenite E and a Nikon fm2 before, but I don’t need a rangefinder with those. So is a little more work with the Voigtlander…

I prefer vintage cameras over the modern ones because with digital cameras, almost all you do is press a button and you get a picture … but with vintage cameras it’s a longer process, so you care more about what you take picture of. So I use vintage cameras because it gets a warmer feeling in the pictures. But I do use a small digital camera to preserve some memories as well.

Photos and verdict by Mark Wilson

aka ihageefanatic on Flickr

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1. Lonely Wait, 2. Shadow Show, 3. Horton Hears a Who, 4. Reflection, 5. Early Morning Commute

Mark says:

I borrowed one [Voigtlander Vito BL] after having disposed of a Vito B. I’m attracted to these [cameras] because of the beautiful warm colours one gets from the Color Skopar lens …

It is slightly different than other cameras of the era. The one I used had a transport problem. I gave up on the light meter. The linkage between the aperture and the shutter setting that maintains constant exposure is a real pain. The bright finder promises beautifully aligned horizontals and doesn’t deliver. The eccentric film counter is great when I remember its odd operation. This camera is very small. And heavy. I like it.

Digital camera? What’s that? One which is manipulated by one’s fingers? The Vito BL is a modern camera compared to the other ones I carry.

Mark’s hints for using the rigid front Vito B and BL:

A big thank you to everyone who particpated!

If you have more tips for using the Vito BL that you think may help other photographers please add them in the comments.

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Voigtlander Vito BL – the verdict