{"id":452,"date":"2011-04-28T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","slug":"diana-vs-action-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Diana vs Action Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moogieman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"George<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Moogieman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tried out my latest lomographic acquisition, the Action Sampler<\/a>, at George’s Jamboree, a high-calibre monthly open mic night hosted by local performance poet George Chopping<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Juju<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Moogieman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Elliot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Action Sampler is a fairly gimmicky multiple image film camera manufactured by Lomography.<\/p>\n

It takes four sequential shots over a period of about half a second using four separate lenses that each cover a quarter of the standard 35 mm frame. Shutter speed is around 1\/100th of a second and the aperture is fixed at f\/16 \u2013 which is why I opted for the version with flash, as otherwise shooting indoors would be impossible without a very high speed film and very strong lighting.<\/p>\n

I loaded it with Fuji Superia Xtra 400 ASA and gave it a whirl (in some cases literally) at the Jamboree. The flash was more than adequate at this film speed. In fact I had no real issues with underexposure at all.<\/p>\n

The main difficulty came in framing the shots. On the one hand, the narrow field of view made it difficult to capture the subject without using the viewfinder \u2013 something I tend not to do in order to properly see the expressions on people’s faces and also to take shots from unusual angles.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, in many of the pictures the subject is too distant. The quarter-frame picture format only really seems to suit close ups.<\/p>\n

However, I discovered that at short range the stroboscopic flash, which triggers four times, can be quite off-putting to performers. Nontheless I will perservere.<\/p>\n

You can see what you think of my Action Sampler shots by selecting the photos to right and going to the Flickr<\/a> sets. For comparison I’ve included some recent gig shots taken with my Diana Mini<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tried out my latest lomographic acquisition, the Action Sampler, at George’s Jamboree, a high-calibre monthly open mic night hosted by local performance poet George Chopping. The Action Sampler is a fairly gimmicky multiple image film camera manufactured by Lomography. It takes four sequential shots over a period of about half a second using four separate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,54,58,53],"tags":[313,75,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}