Michael Meissner
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I'm a computer programmer, that specializes in working on compilers. I've been involved with working on the Gnu Compiler Collection for 20 years now at 5 different companies (with a 2 year sabbatical in the middle when I worked on other compilers).
One of the things I like photographing is renaissance faires, which I have been going to since the early 1970's, starting with the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Mostly I go as a patron, but I have been a walk around juggler in one small faire, played the king in another, and I'm about to do my 6th year as the official photographer for a small faire (3 years at the Maine renaissance faire, now RIP, and 3 years at the Winslowshire renaissance festival in Norton, Massachusetts).
Lately I have been getting into Steampunk, which is sort of set in Victorian England with modern gadgets, though my persona borrows more from the 1930's news photographers with their Speed Graphics. At first I used my E-P2 inside of a 1915 Kodak Pony Premo 5x7 body:
More recently, I have started building my own shell to house the E-3 because the Pony Premo is starting to show its age, and so that I don't have to worry about being in the rain. Here is the box I used in the January Arisia convention. I am slowly working on the next generation of box:
Once I get the bellows camera disguise more or less finished, I plan to think about making two more disguises. One as a film camera from the 1930's, and I would get a director's outfit complete with microphone, and the other would be more of a Belle Epoque (late 19th century until World War I) painter with the camera disguised as a Plein air pochade box (portable art easel).
In terms of the movie camera, I'm currently looking at getting a 1940-1960 8mm wind up camera, and put a Kodak ZX-1 camera in a box next to the camera to use as a prop, but I suspect sooner or later I will want to do my own shell with the E-P2.
One of the things I like photographing is renaissance faires, which I have been going to since the early 1970's, starting with the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Mostly I go as a patron, but I have been a walk around juggler in one small faire, played the king in another, and I'm about to do my 6th year as the official photographer for a small faire (3 years at the Maine renaissance faire, now RIP, and 3 years at the Winslowshire renaissance festival in Norton, Massachusetts).
Lately I have been getting into Steampunk, which is sort of set in Victorian England with modern gadgets, though my persona borrows more from the 1930's news photographers with their Speed Graphics. At first I used my E-P2 inside of a 1915 Kodak Pony Premo 5x7 body:
More recently, I have started building my own shell to house the E-3 because the Pony Premo is starting to show its age, and so that I don't have to worry about being in the rain. Here is the box I used in the January Arisia convention. I am slowly working on the next generation of box:
Once I get the bellows camera disguise more or less finished, I plan to think about making two more disguises. One as a film camera from the 1930's, and I would get a director's outfit complete with microphone, and the other would be more of a Belle Epoque (late 19th century until World War I) painter with the camera disguised as a Plein air pochade box (portable art easel).
In terms of the movie camera, I'm currently looking at getting a 1940-1960 8mm wind up camera, and put a Kodak ZX-1 camera in a box next to the camera to use as a prop, but I suspect sooner or later I will want to do my own shell with the E-P2.
