Brian Robbins Officially Launches Animation Company Big Shot Pictures With First-Look At Sony
#Executives #News #BigShot #BrianRobbins #Sony
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#bigshot
Cara A: Big Eight
Written-By – Hughes, S.B.S., Lemon
Cara B: Mind The Doors
Written-By – Lemon/Hughes
Judge Dread – Big Eight
Label: Big Shot – BI-619
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, EMI Pressing
Country: UK
Released: Mar 30, 1973
Genre: Reggae
Style: Reggae
#SkinheadSessions #Reggae #JudgeDread #AlexHughes #BigShot #TrojanRecords #RecordCollection #Vinyl45 #7InchVinyl
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This guy here placed an ad on Craigslist to share a hot dog with another male. #BigShot
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Cara A: Judge Dread–Big Seven
Written-By – Hughes, E. Lee, Lemon
Cara B: Judge Dread Sound–Dread
Written-By – Bryan, Sinclair, Shrowder
Judge Dread – Big Seven
Label: Big Shot – BI-613
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Push-out Centre
Country: UK
Released: Dec 1, 1972
Genre: Reggae
Style: Reggae
Producer – Bush Productions
#SkinheadSessions #Reggae #JudgeDread #JudgeDreadSound #BushProductions #BigShot #TrojanRecords #RecordCollection #Vinyl45 #7InchVinyl
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be a BIG SHOT
vs.
be a BIT SHOT
#deltarune #spamton #1997 #numberoneratedsalesman1997 #bigshot
Jueves de algo con ritmo con mi remix favorito del Big Choto o como era?
https://youtu.be/4o1VjbPqxZQ
#Bigshot #juevesdealgoritmo
@kbeninato Mr. #bigshot #king gonna humptydumpty soon
<Nim> wow that's a lot of #hashtags little sponge do you wanna be a #bigShot #bigShot do you wanna be the #nextBigThing
#HyperlinkBlocked
Three Cameras from 2024: My favourite experiences this year
A couple of years ago, with the encouragement of Stephen Dowling of Kosmo Photo, a group of camera bloggers were asked to write about three cameras they had discovered that particular year and what each one meant to them. That was a really good idea, I thought, I’m always picking up something new and it’s interesting to take a quick look back at the fun I’ve had over the year. So again I present you with the three cameras that I have most enjoyed using during 2024.
The Lomo Smena 8M
It seems to me that the Lomo Smena 8M is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. It does have some little foibles, like the lever that cocks the shutter which hits your finger if the camera is held wrong and ruins the exposure, or the difficulty of turning the rewind knob, and it of course it’s unusual in not having a fixed take-up spool, but I’m firmly in the ‘I love it’ camp. I had bought one because it has a really well-regarded lens, the classic Triplet T-43 4/40, which I have seen converted to use with micro four-thirds mirrorless cameras. I thought at the time that if the camera was a dud I could alway take off the lens and use it with a digital camera. In the event, the Smena 8M is fantastic and I’m never going to fiddle with it. After a few rolls, the Smena 8M has rapidly become my favourite 35mm camera.
The resolution of the lens is fabulous, for such a cheap-looking camera, providing lovely sharp images so long as you get the zone focusing right (which is always my biggest failing). For me it is perfect for experimentation, and when I chose to make my first roll of redscale film, using Harman Phoenix, the Smena 8M was the camera I immediately turned to. And I must say I was delighted with the results.
The Polaroid Big Shot
I first became aware of the Big Shot some time in 2022, when the Shitty Camera Challenge was promoting its Autumn challenge, Instant Regret. At the same time I learned of its connection with the artist Andy Warhol, who used a Big Shot extensively in his work. Originally this was a $20 camera launched by Polaroid in 1971, and it was only produced for two years before being withdrawn from sale. The story goes that Andy Warhol bought a bulk load of Big Shots so that he could continue using his beloved camera after its demise.
With a single shutter speed of 1/50s, and a focal distance limited to about 1m, the Big Shot was an unusual beast in that it was designed for one job, taking portraits. The Type 100 pack film that the Big Shot uses was withdrawn by Polaroid in the mid-2000s, and it’s Fuji equivalent in 2016, so if you want to take photographs with the Big Shot then you’ve got to be a little bit creative. I’ve made some nice plastic mounts for the Big Shot, which takes one piece of Instax Wide film. It’s not exactly practical, being limited to one exposure at a time, but I’m thrilled to have brought such a classic camera back to life.
The Olympus Camedia C-100
For a long time I’ve wanted to get my hands on a glitchy camera, one that’s working but the sensor is way past its prime. I found the Camedia C-100 in a camera shop in Porto in their ‘Outlet’ section. These are cameras that fall short of being in good enough condition to sell at normal retail prices so are offered with the caveat that: ‘Outlet products are sold as damaged for parts or decoration without warranty or return’.
The sensor in the C-100 is failing, and I reckon that it’s overexposing by around 10 stops. I’ve invested in a cheap ND2-400 variable ND filter, and on its maximum setting the results are quite ‘good’. In really low light there’s no need for an ND filter, and on a tripod with colour and infrared filters the results are amazing. The Camedia produced some lovely digital aerochromes, and I even had a little fun with some trichromes and Intentional Camera Movement.
Honourable Mention: The Panasonic Lumix GF1 (with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens)
This is actually a late entry to my favourite cameras of the year as I’ve only had this combination for a couple of weeks and I’ve not really used it to its best. A while ago I picked up a Panasonic Lumix GF1 micro four-thirds mirrorless camera. I was actually looking for a used Ricoh GRiii, but this camera was one-tenth of the price and it has a really good reputation, even 15 years after its release. Besides, I thought, it would go nicely with my other Olympus Pen series mirrorless cameras.
Although it will take any micro four-thirds lens, the one that I really wanted for this camera was the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. The biggest snag was the price. Even in poor condition, the 20mm f1.7 goes for well over €150 and that was just far too much for me. However, I found one on the Kamerastore website for less than half the price. It was in the ‘Not Passed’ category, since ‘the aperture mechanism doesn’t work properly’, read the description, ‘it randomly selects aperture instead [of] the one chosen by [the] user’.
When the lens arrived I mounted it onto the Panasonic Lumix GF1 and it clicked securely into place. I reckoned a walk around the block would test the lens and so I took several images, on Program mode, Aperture priority mode, and Shutter priority mode … and I couldn’t tell which was which, the lens behaved perfectly. I even tried a few close up images, and the blurred background at the widest aperture was, frankly, spectacular. Actually, all of the images were spectacular and this camera and lens combination is hard to beat. Now I’m smitten, and the Panasonic GF1 and 20mm f1.7 lens combination will be a permanent arrangement. Hopefully next year I’ll get to see more of what it can do.
So these are the cameras I have most enjoyed using during the year. If you are reading this and fancy entering your own three cameras, please go ahead, and if you could add a link to this post, that would be awesome, and I’ll try to update the post with each entry as I find them.
Have a good year and see you in 2025.
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RIT Big Shot 2024 Time Lapse (Full)
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#SportInMovies #GetYourGameOn
#FilmMastodon
#BigShot (2021-2022)
A temperamental college basketball coach who gets fired from his job and must take a teaching and coaching job at an elite all-girls private high school.
<Nim> any time I see a hashtag-heavy post I have to suppress the urge to reply
"Now's your chance to be a #BigShot "
The 30 #Wealthiest #LGBTQ #Stars.
Honestly, it might surprise you just how many #highrolling #bigshot #celebrities are actually #LGBTQ+. There are a few LGBTQ+ celebrities that are worth #billions of #dollars! Crazy, right?
#Women #Lesbians #Bisexuals #Gay #Queer #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #TV #Movies #Representation #Culture
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It was Spring Polaroid Week last week, a celebration of instant film that has been taking place since 2006. According to the introduction on the Polaroid Week Facebook page the aim of PolaroidWeek is ‘to see what new and interesting things we could do with instant film, and to challenge ourselves to produce some really great work.’ Over the course of the years Polaroid Week has come to celebrate all kinds of instant film, not just Polaroid films, which is great for me as I’m mainly an Instax film user nowadays.
It was only by chance that the day before I came across a post about Spring Polaroid Week, ‘Spring Polaroid Week starts tomorrow. Who’s ready?’ I’m currently taking part in the Frugal Film Project, so I have plenty of Instax Wide film available, and by chance I’ve recently acquired one of my long desired cameras, the Polaroid Big Shot Camera. The Big Shot is a strange looking camera with a long snout and is designed for one job only, to take portraits, or images of objects about 1m away. It also uses Polaroid pack film, which of course is no longer available. You can still find expired Polaroid pack films online, but nowadays there is no guarantee that it will work and prices are ridiculously expensive.
Fortunately, I came up with a technique adapted from an article on PetaPixel to make a little plastic mount to hold a single piece of Instax Wide film in the film back of the Big Shot. I need to take a reading and adjust the exposure to account for the difference in film speed between Polaroid pack film (about ISO 160) and Instax Wide film (ISO 800), but the results are often really nice — well for a 50-year-old camera.
Being a rather bulky camera, and with only one film loaded at a time, the Big Shot is hardly portable, so the photographs taken for Spring Polaroid Week were taken in the neighbourhood, probably no more than a few hundred metres from the house. It was great fun, though, and really gave me practise using the Big Shot.
On the first day I found a rusty old gate with a shiny padlock that really captured what I want to photograph with the Big Shot. Doing the Big Shot Shuffle I could move back and forth until the rangefinder showed me the image was in focus, and the background would be nicely blurred. To get the exposure right, well as best as I could, I used the smartphone app Camera Meter to take a reading at ISO 800 and 1/50s, the shutter speed of the Big Shot. This gave me the aperture that I should use and then I exposed one stop smaller than this. I use this technique with the 1920s Generic folding camera for the Frugal Film Project, and it seems to work.
I took a second image of a metal door, but this time my technique didn’t seem to work as well. I’ve discovered since that objects with lighter backgrounds would benefit from the use of a neutral density filter to lessen the possibility of overexposure. That said, I did nail the focussing and I’m certainly getting better at the Big Shot Shuffle.
Day two of Polaroid Week with the Big Shot was a disaster. The intention was to make an image of a lovely little postbox outside my neighbours house, but I completely misjudged the framing and the dimensions of the postbox. Instead of having a nicely framed postbox surrounded by an out of focus background the box filled the frame and the afternoon light meant that although the side of the box was nicely exposed the front of the box, my subject, was a near featureless blob. I’ve included it here, but never submitted it to the Polaroid Week pages.
My entry for Day 3 of Spring Polaroid Week was an Instax Wide photograph taken with the Polaroid Big Shot camera of a field of yellow flowers. This was tirst time I had tried a landscape shot, and probably the last. The intention was toget part of the image in focus, with out of focus flowers in the foreground and background. But I wasn’t sure how to properly focus the Big Shot on its side and I was not sure that any of it was properly in focus. I decided that I was going to stick to flat objects in the future.
On Day 4 of Spring Polaroid Week I abandoned my idea of taking flat objects and returned to a three dimensional subject. Opposite our house the neighbour has a lovely little stone garden filled with shrubs and cacti. I’ve taken this before, but never given it the Big Shot treatment. I was really happy how this one came out, the red bush in the foreground came out nicely in focus and the green background and wall behind was suitably blurred. I also nailed the focussing, and of all my photos during Polaroid Week this was my favourite.
The next two days entries were not taken with the Big Shot, one by accident and one by design. Day four of Polaroid Week coincided with the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Portugal from a fascist dictatorship that ruled the country in 1974. It was defeated in a near bloodless revolution and every year on the 24 April the country celebrates the Dia de Liberdade. One of the enduring images is of red carnations that the population pushed into the barrels of the guns of the Portuguese army, and for Day 5 of Polaroid Week I wanted to celebrate this day with a piece of graffiti, a stencil of a phrase, ‘Eles têm armas, mas nós temos flores’ (they have guns, but we have flowers).
Sadly, my framing and exposure with the Big Shot was completely wrong and instead of a nicely framed image of the quote I was left with a part of ‘flores’ which was deeply disappointing. So instead I presented an Instax Wide image of a concrete piece of pipe in tall grass, a favourite image of mine from behind our local Lidl supermarket. This was taken with the 1920s generic folding camera that I am using for the Frugal Film Project.
The image for Day six of Polaroid Week was made the same day and was also taken with the generic folding camera. In fact it was taken just a few metres away from the stencilled was of the same abandoned building because I wanted the windows for Fenster Freitag (Window Friday). I was dodging traffic to get this image, not easy with a tripod mounted folding camera, so it’s really poorly framed and, if anything, this one was underexposed for a change.
I has not realised that Spring Polaroid Week ran from Sunday to the following Friday, so although I went out and took a frame for Day 7 of Polaroid Week technically it wasn’t really counted as part of the celebration. But I had my image for Day 7, and #Caturday, all lined up so finish Polaroid Week here’s a final Big Shot portrait of a piece of local street art. It was bittersweet, I don’t think I’ll ever get as good framing again but the photo was a little overexposed and would have benefitted from an ND filter.
I really enjoyed Spring Polaroid Week with the Big Shot. It was certainly an experience using this 50-year-old behemoth and it fulfilled a long-term ambition to own and use this camera. I’m certainly going out with the Big Shot again, and I have an idea for a long term project that I hope will play to the benefits of this beastie. I’m also looking forward to Autumn Polaroid Week, and wondering even now what my subject, and camera, might be.
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Show of the Day: Big Shot
The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "Big Shot," with 2 characters and an overall score of 60.25. - #LWTVsotd #BigShot - https://lezwatchtv.com/show/big-shot/
A week or so ago I came across a Polaroid Big Shot on eBay. This isn’t that unusual, but normally the Big Shots are from the US and after taking into account postage and customs charges can be prohibitve. This one was in Europe and, at the time, was a reasonable 50€ plus postage. I kept an eye on it for a few days and as the deadline approached the price started to go up. I added a couple of bids, but these were instantly outbid, then with six seconds to go added my final bid of 70€. The auction closed and … I had won it! I felt a little bit sad for the other bidders for this item, they must have been disappointed to lose it with just a few seconds to spare, but this didn’t last long as I realised I had finally got a camera that I have been after for years.
I first became aware of the Big Shot some time in 2002, when the Shitty Camera Challenge were promoting the Autumn challenge, Instant Regret. A celebration of all things Instant film I knew that I wanted to do something a little different than just use my Polaroid 600 camera from the 1980s. Besides, even then Polaroid film was, for me, far too expensive. So I thought of using an old instant camera with modern Instax film. I searched around for for something and came across the Kodak ‘Handle’ which used a hand crank to manually eject the film. The bonus with this camera was that film hadn’t been available for it since the 1980s so to get that working wad a real challenge.
At the same time I learned of the Big Shot, and especially its connection with the artist Andy Warhol who used a Big Shot extensively in his work. Originally this was a $20 camera launched by Polaroid in 1971 before the produced the SX-70. It was only produced for two years, until 1973, before being withdrawn from sale, and the story goes that Andy Warhol bought a bulk load so that he could continue using his beloved Big Shot after its demise.
With a single shutter speed and a focal distance limited to about 1m the Big Shot was an unusual beast in that it was designed for one job, taking portraits on pack film. At a pinch it could be used outdoors without flash, but indoors with it’s long focal length (about 20cm) using the ISO 100 pack film that was available, flash was essential. Hence it featured a large diffuser above the single plastic lens and an attachment for Magicubes, a small chemical flash pack that was popular in the 1970s.
The Type 100 pack film that the Big Shot uses was withdrawn by Polaroid in the mid-2000s, and it’s Fuji equivalent in 2016. These films are still available on auction sites, but nowadays the price is ridiculously high. So if you want to take photographs with the Big Shot then you’ve got to be a little bit creative. I’ve made some nice plastic mounts in the past for the Kodak ‘Handle’, my Frankencamera with a Polaroid pack film back, and most recently for a 1920s generic folding camera, but when I tried to make a similar mount for the Big Shot the Instax Wide film was just a little too snug in the back of the camera.
Turning to Google I discovered a PetaPixel article by Nicholas Morganti helpfully titled, ‘How to Convert a Polaroid Big Shot Camera to Shoot Instax Instant Film‘. Here he made some card slide mounts for Instax Wide film where you slide a piece of film into the mount in the darkroom (or in my case a dark bag) and load this into the Big Shot. You can only take one shot at a time, but at least it’s something. Incidentally, this article is also an excellent introduction to the Polaroid Big Shot.
Instead of card I used the plastic cover from a cheap folder, which was made of rigid plastic about 1mm thick. The frame size in the back of the Big Shot is 135x88mm and the size of Instax Wide film is 108x85mm. I cut a piece of plastic mount of 134x88mm, which fitted perfectly, two pieces of 12x88mm and two pieces of 15x88mm. I glued the 12mm pieces to large backing and the top and bottom, left it to dry a little then glued the 15mm pieces on top of the 12mm pieces flush to top but overlapping so that the film would slide into the mount. After that I left the mounts, I made three, to dry thoroughly.
The mounts worked really well, and I managed to load and mount two films within about 10 minutes. Remember that with Instax films the light sensitive side is the black side so this should be loaded into the mount facing outwards. This can be a little fiddly in the dark, but at the bottom of the film is a spacer and if you hold the film by this and not the chemical capsule end (which you should be careful not to damage) you can feel the ‘lump’ of the spacer and orient properly.
The shutter speed of the Big Shot is a fixed 1/50s and the available apertures are f56, f36, or f24. To expose the Instax Wide films I used a smartphone app camera Meyer and set aperture using the ‘light’ or ‘dark’ setting on the front of the camera, as required. Exposed films were developed by unloading the film from the Big Shot in the dark bag and then reloading it into an Instax Wide cassette. This was loaded (still in the dark bag) into a Fujifilm Instax Wide camera, turning it on and pressing the shutter button.
The first film always comes out as if it was the ‘dark slide’ and not be exposed by the camera, but if you are loading two or more films remember to cover the lens so that the film is not exposed by the camera. Also, when loading the film into the cassette load it developing capsule end up, otherwise the chemicals will not be spread evenly over the film.
The final Instax photos came out really well. They were a bit out of focus, I really need to practise my ‘Big Shot shuffle’, but I was extremely happy and can’t wait to take the Polaroid Big Shot out again.
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