Tipster Of The Week: With Or Without Lubikin
written by scapegoat
on October 12th, 2008
, 11 comments
(4 votes)
By now, you must have heard of the new king of Lomotown- the Lubitel 166+ made its debut recently together with his faithful assistant, the very optimistic Lubikin which exclusively is in charge on any of the camera’s internal 35mm affairs thus making the Lubitel a very un-modern but hip, bi-format twin lens reflex camera of its kind.
But you wanted what you see on your waist-level viewfinder still on a full square format using just a 35mm film…
DOUBLE 35 by janisthewanis
“__I got this tip from adamscott in the Holga Life Through A Plastic Lens book and applied it to the Lubitel as it can be used for any medium format camera. One must enter the dark room with 2 empty 120 spools, and full unexposed rolls of 35mm film, unroll the 35mm films and cut the ends at the end and tape them to one of the 120 spools so that they reach edge to edge, they will overlap a bit in the middle and this is good. Roll them on up onto the 120 spool and make sure that they are nice and tight, then tape the other ends of the rolls onto the other 120 spool. As there is no cover on the film at this point one must load the camera in the dark as well. Place the rolled up end in the bottom spot on the camera and the empty end in the upper part. Close up the camera and I would recommend taping up the back red film counter thing before going into the dark room. If you leave this untaped you are going to get a big light streak through the middle of your images.
I would also recommed counting the clicks between frames on a regular roll so that you know how far to advance the film between frames. I decided to go buck wild on this and used velvia 50 film, crossprocessed and shot a bunch of multiple exposures. To merge the images, I had contact sheets made and then scanned the contact sheets and used photoshop to put them together. Its a lot of work but worth it I feel.__"
With or without a Lubikin, this shouldn’t stop both the veteran and the future lovers of of the new Lubitel. The possibilities are endless and it’s only up to you to discover it! And what better time there is to share your Lubitel explorations than now here!
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