Modelling by Niklas Lindström who also knows a lot about SPARQL, RDF and Brilliance.

The processing code for time lapse captures through the iSight camera with a static centered slit looks like this:

import processing.video.*;

Capture cameraSource;
int capwidth = 1280;
int capheight = 1024;
int outwidth = 1024;

int currentColumn = 0;

boolean keepDrawing = false;
boolean isDone = false;

void setup()
{
size(outwidth, capheight);
cameraSource = new Capture(this, capwidth, capheight, 30);
cameraSource.crop(capwidth/2, 0, 1, capheight);
}

void captureEvent(Capture cameraSource) {
if(cameraSource.available()) {
cameraSource.read();
}
}

void keyPressed() {
keepDrawing = true;
isDone = false;
}

void draw() {
if(keepDrawing) {
if(currentColumn<=width) {

image(cameraSource, currentColumn, 0);
currentColumn++;
}
else {
keepDrawing = false;
isDone = true;
saveImage();
currentColumn = 0;
}
}
}

void saveImage() {
//yeah I know…

String d = String.valueOf(day());
String m = String.valueOf(month());
String y = String.valueOf(year());
String h = String.valueOf(hour());
String mn = String.valueOf(minute());
String s = String.valueOf(second());

save(“scan” + y + m + d + “-” + h + mn + s + “.png”);
}

If you didn’t know already, Holga is a medium format plastic camera made in the 80s for middle class chinese. Alas, there is no display, no TTL viewfinder, no autofocus and no exposure metering. The constraints imposed by the Holga was just what I needed to make taking pictures more fun!

Some of my Holga experiments can be found in the flickr album A couple of days with Holga.

Only one picture had a written note. It said “Carl Kobdock” below the guy in the blue shirt.

Interestingly, there is only one person with that name alive in Sweden today. I will be sending him a printout to see if he’s the guy. Updates will follow.

It seems like the trip was a lot of fun.

See the rest of the pictures in the Trans-Siberian railway trip 1978 set.

More photos in the Flickr photo set.

Portrait of Knut Andersson, from sometime in the 1940s.

From a performance at the Schumman Theater in Frankfurt am Main. Unknown date, probably after the war?