Fujica DL-20

This camera was found by my nearby market while living in Busan. There plenty of markets in Busan, but most of them catered to a typical you market you'd think of, food, clothing, and souvenirs. There was one market (which is still there) off the Dongdaesin station in Busan. If you're ever In Busan, its worth a trip. This market was special because It actually had used/ old/ vintage items such as old north korean money, vinyl, and occasionally film cameras. 

These photos were all still shot in Busan. I am currently living in NY, but have a massive overflow of images from 2016, so I'll be visually transitioning out of Asia slowly. 
Everything here was shot on Kodak Gold 200.
If you're a shooting film in Korea, go to FotoMaru in Seoul. They were excellent at processing my film and mailing my negatives back to me. I wasn't able to scan at the quality I wanted to until I got home, but I sent them 50+ rolls of 120 and 35mm film with zero problems. They're possibly the best in Korea.

My bi- or tri- weekly runs went across this bridge. I really loved running in one straight line and coming back. The Area of Busan i was in was very flat.

This was affectionately called "Ass Street" It had many of the scantily clad bars. Not technically brothels, but not exactly the place to hang out. I frequented this street because both the Post Office as well as Goodwill was on this street. (Yes they have goodwill in Asia)

"Street Art"

An excellent bar in Nampo

Polaroid Land Camera+ FP100C

Last week was Polaroid Week, (or 'Roid Week) and I made almost no acceptable images, So instead of being sad, I'm honoring Edwin with this post.
I shot Polaroid and Fuji instant film all through Asia. (well at least in Korea and Japan) While in Korea, I had a mostly functional Polaroid 350. I took hundreds of polaroid prints home with me in a box that i'm yet to scan(Still waiting for them to flatten out). Since Korea, I replaced the bellows and accidentally punched a new hole through it. Thankfully a wonderful friend gifted me a brand new to me polaroid 250

If you're unfamiliar with Instant film, It makes some gorgeous images. I have a soft spot for any type of instant film because of my past affiliation with These Guys. In terms of instant film, Fuji's FP100C is especially special. Typically instant film produces a positive print that you can scan and do what you like with it. But with FP100C, you can also recover the negative itself. Some old polaroid films like Polaroid type 55 and Type 665 could get a positive and a negative. FP100C is a color film with a color negative, almost unheard of in modern film photography. The process to get the negative isn't so cut and dry. You must use a form of bleach to remove the black material on the back of the film. I've recently began using The Brothers Wright's workflow. Here are both some really terrible examples, as well as some pretty awesome ones. Using bleach has a chance of destroying, or shifting the colors of the film, so I am especially drawn to this material. Take a look at most of my previous work on my site here, and you can understand some other examples.

Starting with one of the first photos I shot, this was the view I had every evening. My apartment sat on the Nakdong River in Busan.

Poor Kitty Post Spay

Night photography is extremely difficult with this film, the reciporicty failure is very high.

If you leave your film out, this type of surface appears and won't go away when you're reclaiming the negative.

A super weird self portrait, the positive looks vaugely like this. There seemed to be too much bleach with this one.

This was from the lot of negatives in the picture above. My negative reclaimation only improved from here.

And finally a nearly flawless negative. Really happy with this new workflow. Now to find more film....

Mamiya Universal

This was one of the first cameras I bought in 2016. After my beloved Mamiya C330 TLR hopped out of my backpack meeting its untimely demise, I had a suitcase full of medium format film and no cameras to use. Instead of selling the film off, I made a decision to purchase one from Japan. There were some issues with it, but I was able to repair pretty quickly.

Since this is one of my main camera setups, I'll most likely be sharing images from this camera in future posts.

New55 (scanned negative) shot in a converted polaroid 545 back

I presently have a love hate relationship with the camera because its heavy but makes gorgeous images.

Fuji NPS 160

Kodak 400 MC. Just outside my doorstep

My cat, 먼지 / Meonji. She passed away from a rare feline disease. This was one of the last images I made of her on my last sheet of New55. 

Kodak 160NC. Jeju Island

Canon AutoBoy Tele

This is one of those cameras that have virtually zero value. But for me, finding cameras to sell is only a small component of finding cameras. This model, the Autoboy Tele in Japan and the Canon Sure Shot Tele/ Top Twin in the US. I thought this was a cool little camera.

I began testing it out at a wedding, I found quickly that it operated okay, but the gears that switched from Telephoto to normal were old and cranky, so there would be a loud high pitched screech as when I switched between the two.

It also had a date stamp feature that seems pretty antiquated, but possibly conceptually useful as a tool when making images. The lens reminds me a lot of the cameras I would use when I was a kid.

I shot a lot of different cameras while living abroad. (I lived in South Korea for the year of 2016.) Korea had a good supply of interesting architecture, and cheap cameras.

I guess I've been on a Kodak kick lately. This was also shot on some Kodak Gold 200. I tend to buy film that is expired, and I don't freeze or store my film in any particular manner. Maybe I'll add a photo of my current film stock in the future.