The CooperCam, a self-built sliding box camera

So what do you do when you get bored while recovering from a burn out? And you want to take it slow?

In my case, I built a camera by myself. And called it the CooperCam, since my family name translates to Cooper in English.

It took some thinking, some simple parts from the local home depot warehouse, some dumb luck and an old brass barrel lens that I’d found online for petty cash. 

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Priceless fun with cheap gear: the Zenit 3M

While I truly enjoy my screw mount Leicas, it took me a long time to find their SLR counterpart. While essentially it really shouldn’t have been that hard, once you think about it.

I know Leica built some truly terrific early Leicaflexes, but they are more related to the M series rangefinders than to the earlier screw mount cameras.

Same time,  the Russians copied the early Leica II and went on from there to produce a Single Lens Reflex camera. Enter the Zenit line of SLR cameras from the early 1960s! Incredible fun for petty cash!

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Asser Jozefkerk

Jozefkerk Assen

 Jozefkerk. Assen, 6 mei 2018.

Eén van de foto’s uit een serie waar ik aan werk, ‘Assen, Stad van Dromen’. Dit is de Jozefkerk in Assen.

Dromen zijn bedrog, dat weten we allemaal. Maar we hebben ze nodig om de dagelijkse werkelijkheid niet allesoverheersend te laten worden.

Mijn bedoeling met deze serie in wording is om de dromen van verre reizen, witte stranden en andere culturen, een ‘evenknie’ te geven uit de dagelijkse werkelijkheid. Zodat die daarmee wat meer te verdragen wordt.

Mamiya RB67 with 50mm Mamiya-Sekor C and Fomapan 100 film.