Blackbird Fly Modification - Film Border Masking Frame
As I said, I had some failure of poor exposure of my second roll of redscale film on BBF. However, I found my masking frame mod quite successfully generated the effect I want.
The problem with redscale film is that you have to at least double the exposure value to make a decent photo, especially in low light condition. However, the only way to do that in BBF is the B mode, which makes it difficult to create sharp image in most freestyle shooting. Anyway, if you use this combination (redscale film + BBF), make sure you shoot in full sunlight or use B mode with a tripod.
Now back to the topic. I always like the film borders of peel apart polaroids, I wanted to introduce more of such element into my BBF 135mm photos. So I took apart a Polaroid 600 film, peeled apart all the white borders, washed the transparent film cover and scratched it a bit, leaving only some chemical deposits on the edges. Next I took a masking frame which came with the BBF, reverse it (so that I can have a full frame) and taped the Polaroid transparent film cover (with borders) to the masking frame.
This created an instant film border frame for BBF! Now with this masking frame put onto the camera reverse, you get a full 35mm frame and you can actually play with a lot of different masking effects including this one. Say stick a tiny human figure onto the frame to create silhouette, print your illustrator or logo pattern onto a transparent plastic and make a new mask, etc etc.
Installing the mask is no brainer, just pop it in! There can be more modifications on BBF, share with me if you have some.
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