Hello I am Hélène

#1

Hello, I live in Balham.
I visited the Makerspace Cambridge two weeks ago and I found it amazing. The grass is always greener on the other side, we always tend to think wrongly. I am happy that such initiative exists in South London!
I am interested in analogue film (I can hand process, hand print) in relation to hardware (artduino, Raspberry pie).
Programming rudimentary apps on Rails
I am a keen sewer and knitter.

Nice to meet some of you soon!
Best wishes,
Hélène

#2

Welcome Helene!

Rails you say? Very interesting. If you ever feel like getting your feet wet, have a look at Hacking on Discourse

#3

Hello Tom,

I would like to help but thats’s rather complex
Getting my way around rails and more basic features!
Best wishes
Hélène

#4

Hi Hélène. I’m interested in analogue film too; I own a bolex 16mm camera and have done plenty of hand-processing. I’m also into arduino etc electronics so I’m interested in what you mean by “analogue film in relation to hardware”. Do you have a project in mind?

Ted

#5

Hey Ted,

Hope you are well? …Are you interested in a Steenbeck bed? I have been trying to convince the trustees to set up a filmlab without much luck. I am going to NY at the end of May and may leave to a guy picking it up from Romania. Going to the School for Poetic Computation, might be doing some arduino stuff with analogue film making… Anayway drop me a line Cheers H

#6

School for poetic computation? I didn’t believe that such a place existed until I looked it up. It sounds very interesting, what are you going to be doing there?

#7

experimenting with pinhole film (or still photography) cameras and light sensors to calculate the correct aperture for exposure… sounds a bit ambitious :}

#8

Sounds extremely interesting and something that could be done well. Good luck with it.

#9

Hello Helene,

Sorry to trouble you, but I’ve just been thinking about the description of what it is you want to make. Isn’t it a light meter as used by photographers for years?

#10

nice attempt for pontificating…
have you ever made rudimentary pinhole cameras?

#11

I’m not really sure what you mean. I wasn’t pontificating…perhaps you meant to say cogitating?

I have made a pinhole camera and a camera obscura of sorts, but I confess that leaves me no clearer on what it is you are wanting to do.

Carl.