Eda Wan Photography - Blog of a freelance photographer in Lincolnshire

For my birthday this year I received a Spinner 360 which joined my every growing camera collection (That reminds me, I should get round to shooting my full collection one day).

The Spinner 360 is a Lomography camera which spins on it’s axis as it shoots producing a 360 degree panoramic shot in one exposure. You only get 5 – 8 shots! Depending on the film’s total exposures and how far it spins in each shot.

In my excitement to try out this new camera I popped in a roll of film that I only had with me at the time which was roll of Lomography color 100, then I read the instructions I realised I should have waited to put in a 200 or 400 iso film.

However I decided to carry on as I started and give it a go. So I took it out for a test run then dropped the film off at a lab while in London. I was surprised that I did end up with some pretty successful shots and if it weren’t for my mistake in shooting with the camera set into rewind mode then I would have had more shots.

Please excuse my poor stitching, due to the expense and uncertainty of the roll being exposed I only got the film developed with prints, so I shot the prints and stitched it together myself.

Not bad for my first roll, definitely a fun camera with quirky results. As I discovered after shooting with the Spinner is most certainly a fiddly and unpredictable science. There are so many variations in how you shoot from how you hold the camera to how much you pull the cord and then to how you release it.

It has been a while since my last blog entry and shooting with digital has fallen quiet over the past few months. My new joy at current is a Cosina C1, a camera which use to belong to my father and I inherited. I’m in the middle of my third roll which I’m waiting on completing before I share.

Moo.com is a printing site full of exciting products to turn your photos into something special, from their ever popular and versatile classic minicards (recently repackaged to feature in a new spanking box) to stickers, this is a site worth well a look. Especially for users of flickr where it’s been made easy to import photos straight from your account.

Today I ordered another set of business cards in preparation for the upcoming exhibition. So far every person who’s seen my previously printed business cards have been impressed with their quality and their look.

I can also report that my Fisheye 2 camera has arrived! I hope to get a roll shot quickly so I can tell you all about it.

Preparation has kicked off for the incoming exhibition at the Carre Gallery, I will be handing out invites to the opening night soon. I hope you can make it and join me for what will be a pleasant evening of photography and the fellow company of the Boston Camera Club.