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Check out this eBay auction for a "multiplying camera" with 12 brass lenses! With an opening bid of €2900, it aint cheap, but it sure is funky!

Polaroid Week Fall 2007 is in full swing over on Flickr, and the pictures are looking good! Here are some highlights so far (posted with the kind permission of the photographers):
 

Untitled, Cate
 

Belly, Jinnie
 

Ferry Terminal, Laura A. Watt
 

Untitled, Tony Sokolowski
 

Untitled, gardengal
 

Rivulet, Roamin
 
Polaroid Week continues through 7 October, so there’s plenty of time left to join in! […]

Shoot Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2007 group on Flickr:

Seven days. Seven polaroids. (or more if you’re so inspired, just not more than 3 a day)
Starting on Monday October 1. So, dust off your SX70, Spectra, 600 or Polaroid weapon of choice this week and start shooting!
Or dig out old squares you’ve […]

Squarefrog, who over the last year has put together what is far and away the most comprehensive Holga information site going, is having a one year anniversary contest. All you have to do to enter is fill out a very short questionnaire. The contest is open to everyone world-wide.
Prizes and stuff:

First prize - Lomography Holga […]

Rights-grabbing terms for photo submissions from outdoor sport retailer REI:

1. I irrevocably grant to Recreational Equipment, Inc. . . . in perpetuity, for no additional consideration, to use the photographs or pictures . . . an unlimited number of times in any manner REI deems . . . without restriction as to changes or alterations, […]

Check out this eBay auction for a reducing back that allows you to shoot 35mm film on an 8×10 Deardorff field camera!
Thanks to Tom Persinger for the heads-up.

Ilford press release:

ILFORD PHOTO has launched a campaign to enhance the position, standing and future of the UK’s darkrooms and associated creative techniques. Inspired by those involved in the analogue photographic industry, from manufacturers to the media, the campaign is designed to be a vehicle to establish a new future for darkroom photography.
By inspiring a […]

Katie Cooke talks to Haje Jan Kamps about shooting large format street portraits in the thick of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Read the article at PhotoCritic.org

Check out this completed eBay listing for a 1800mm f/16 lens with a 2640mm image circle. Pictures on eBay. Holy shit!

Lawyer Carolyn E. Wright, who runs the blog Photo Attorney, has just posted a roundup of license grabs by OurWeddingDay.com, Google, and National Geographic.