Menggambar Dengan Software & Hardware 80an

Terbiasa menggambar di aplikasi iPad atau komputer jaman sekarang yang penuh warna & bentuk, anak-anak kami beri kesempatan untuk mencoba software menggambar dari tahun 1983: MacPaint dari Apple di komputer Macintosh SE, menggunakan mouse.



Awalnya mereka kagok dengan tampilan grafis yang sederhana, semua serba pixelated. Tapi karena rasa penasaran yang besar, mereka malah menemukan keasyikan tersendiri.



Apalagi menggunakan mouse. Berasa kurang fleksibel ketika menggambar dengan menggeser-geserkan mouse di area sempit. Namun mereka menemukan teknik sendiri, dengan menggambar bit by bit atau menarik garis lurus, bujur sangkar atau lingkaran kemudian dihapus dibentuk sesuai kebutuhan.



Menggambar dengan pixel hitam putih seolah memberi ruang buat kami untuk berimajinasi lebih pada bentuk dan warna. Dengan keterbatasan, kami menemukan cara dan teknis berkreasi yang baru. Dan mereka pun posting karya mereka di akun Instagramnya.

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Sketching with Psion Series 5

Got this Psion Series 5 in flea market and we decided it to make a test: Sketching!

It's not bad at all! And the result is fantastic for a pre-2000 PDA. Much better than Newton MessagePad 130, not to mention how easy to retrieve the file from Psion to the modern desktop device like MacOS via CF card.
Try retrieve images from Newton to MacOS X, you will end up dealing with obselete serial cable, obselete software & obselete system (read: MacOS 8 or classic).

Some sketches with Sketch software.

And this is our 7 years old daughter's quick sketch :D

About Psion Series 5 here.

Experiment with Anscoflex II

By default, this 1954 Anscoflex only accept 620 film. We can use modern 120 film, but first, we need to trim the film spoolers, so it can fit properly.

Modify the 120 film spool

For comparison, the modern 120 film has thicker side (left) than the 620 film (right empty spool) so we need to modify it by decreasing the thick edge side using a very fine sand paper till almost paper thin. Also use nail cutter to decrease the edge for about 1 mm or near the surface of film roll.

We prefer to keep the original 620 spool instead of using it with the risk losing it in developing lab. Fortunately we have a spare of plastic 120 spool so we can modify it & match it with 620 spool specs.

Now, let's take some pictures.

Photo results
Anscoflex II has fixed shutter speed: 1/60 and fixed aperture: ƒ11. Means we have to learn which of the scene/environment suits better the camera.
The swimming pool scene!
Most of the pictures we took were using the Close Up filter and we still couldn't get the best focal point. Take a look.



Without Close Up filter.



With Close Up filter. We still need to learn to get the focus range. The tree at the background looks sharp while the main objects are blurry.


Without Close Up filter & our daughter was standing too close to the camera.

Stay tuned for our next experiment!

Related story:
- Anscoflex II

Experiment with Polaroid Film

Polaroid Film, a set on Flickr.

Menggunakan film Polaroid PX-Gold dari Impossible Project & film Polaroid kadaluwarsa. Interesting result! Arwen, Leia dan Neo pun mengerti bahwa fotografi tidak hanya digital & Instragram.

Kamera yang digunakan adalah Polaroid SX-70 OneStep, Polaroid 600 & Polaroid OneStep CloseUp.

"Hey dad! Remember when you took this kind of picture back in 70s?"

Update on Film Photography

Film Photography, a set on Flickr.

The experiment on film photography continued. Not just with 1949 Agfa Box 50 camera, buat also with 1954 Anscoflex II, 1959 FED 2 & Zorki 4 camera.



Our experiment with 1954 Anscoflex II here.