Comments on: A first look at the Yashica EZ F521

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:22:17 +0000

Boris V, et al, if you’re in Japan and “using” your cellphone, consider contributing to Eyeless in Ginza.

http://fotogrotto.wordpress.com/

By: Peter Evans

Peter Evans — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:48:46 +0000

My cellphone is old and puts out very few pixels, whereas the cellphones of most of the people I know cost more than this camera does. But, combined with the photo at the top, your comment has got me thinking. Cellphone digicams are all very well, but couldn’t Fuji (or Cosina) bring out a film cellphone?

By: boris v

boris v — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:08:23 +0000

spare your money and just use your cell phone. same thing, if not more holgaesque.

By: happy shutterbug

happy shutterbug — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:37:03 +0000

RE: “That type of distortion is called the Lartigue effect. It’s named after Jaques-Henri Lartigue who was a photographer that used a vertical shutter moving slit camera. He used this to great effect to take pictures of race cars and things like that and give them a sense of movement.”

The issue is that it’s got a CMOS imager with a ‘rolling shutter’. See for instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

By: storpotaten

storpotaten — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:53:41 +0000

Keep in mind that when adopting lenses, you will end up with significantly different field of view courtesy of the smaller sensor. While the “equivalent” focal length on this thing is ~43mm the actual focal length is 7mm. So, mounting say my 50mm Summar on this thing, I’d end up with a rather long telephoto lens — and the high pixel density from the small sensor would probably not show the lest in its best light.

Still, could be fun to experiment with!

By: Gabriel Velasco

Gabriel Velasco — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:50:41 +0000

That type of distortion is called the Lartigue effect. It’s named after Jaques-Henri Lartigue who was a photographer that used a vertical shutter moving slit camera. He used this to great effect to take pictures of race cars and things like that and give them a sense of movement.

By: portretteur.nl

portretteur.nl — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:41:50 +0000

That might actually be a good donor to hack into a digital module for a Leica M camera. Seems there are not too many buttons involved and there is no shutter connected to the circuitry. Would probably only allow for shutter speed like 1/30th or slower to expose the whole sensor, but that could be manageable! Guess I will get me one and see what I can hack it into