Space, 1999

[imomus]

Ten years is a long time in digital camera design, so when Hisae decided to refurbish her old Nikon Coolpix 950 it felt more like time-traveling back to 1969 than 1999 -- especially with the optional fisheye lens adaptor screwed into place.

A camera that, ten years ago, seemed light and expensive now seems heavy and cheap, and its 2 megapixel sensor doesn't seem anything like as spacious now as it did back then. But there's no denying the quality and quirk of the images you can get with this Nikon, once you've slipped in four AA batteries (they'll last about 30 minutes before they need replacing), screwed the lens adaptor into its mount, and twisted the rugged swivel-body into action.

Here's a fisheye documentation of our living space via the kind of lens usually reserved for Apollo capsules and Stanley Kubrick (or, for a more 1999-era reference, Chris Doyle) films.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Voila! The living space of Momus!

Very interesting. Hisae looks a bit cramped... Where is it that you're looking up through? And also, for some reason I'm straining my eyes to decipher the time on the clock in the first picture.

- Mazie.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The digital clock in the first picture shows 19:16.

The photograph where it looks as if I'm looking up is actually just me sticking the camera inside a record box containing a lamp and some metallic jackets from catalogues for Die Gestalten Verlag (http://www.gestalten.com/) books.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, thanks for clarifying, Momasu~. <3

Wow, 19:16 and the sun doesn't look like it's even setting. In the US it's Daylight Savings Time and it starts turning to dusk around that time.

Interesting re: the metallic jackets. It seems there's some kind of art placed wherever you go.

- Mazie.