Fed 2 Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins

This is another old Camera I bought on eBay, a Soviet Russian Fed 2 Camera from the late 50s early 1960s. Based of course on the Leica and looking just as cool in my opinion even though they were originally sold at a mere fraction of the price of a Leica but nevertheless an amazingly good camera. Well I thought it would make a nice subject for a painting. :)

Digital Camera 6ins x 4.5ins, Oil on Board

Sadly my old Olympus 960z (1.3mp) digital camera stated to play up the other week, so I decided it was about time I invested in a new digital camera. Well I had a look on eBay and saw this wondrous 7 mega pixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07 with a Leica lens no less going for £109 and fell in love strait away. It really is super little camera. Small, made of real metal and takes the most amazingly sharp images, pictures that would put my now vintage Pentax MX 35mm SLR to shame, not only that it's easier to use and is about the size of a packet of 20 cigarettes, it also does amazingly good digital video.

So as you can probably tell I'm very pleased with it. Of course I've only had it about 2 weeks and have already taken about 1000 pictures with it, at this rate I'm going to end up with a filing cabinet full of DVDs LOL.

Anyway I thought it was such a pretty little camera is deserved to be painted. :)

Vintage Camera (1957 Mk IV Ihagee Exa)

I seem to have a bit of a passion for old Cameras. I bought this 1957 Mk IV Ihagee Exa on eBay intending to resell it on another antiques and collectables site. But I just fell in love with it and couldn't bring myself to part with it. So I thought it would do a painting of it instead :) I can sort of imagine the artist Edward Hopper having a camera like this so I kind of painted it a Hopper like style imagining it sitting on a hotel table. The painting is 4ins x 6ins and is painted oil on board.

A badge design based on this painting is now available on Cafepress at: http://www.cafepress.com/exacamera