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Unauthorized WPPD-branded pinhole cameras

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Tom Miller posted this to Pinhole Visions and the Spitbite Pinhole Mailing List. I’m re-posting it in its entirety:

Dear Photography Enthusiast,

The Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD) coordinators noticed that commercial pinhole cameras engraved with our name and logo are being offered for sale. This is being done without the authorization of the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day organization.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is a community service organization operated as a not-for-profit; we are not a commercial enterprise. We don’t sell anything, but exist only to benefit all people by providing information about pinhole photography and by providing a gallery open for all people to post one pinhole photograph as part of the annual Pinhole Day celebration.

While we encourage people to use our artwork to promote the Pinhole Day event, we do not authorize use of our name and artwork for commercial purposes. Please keep this in mind if you are considering a purchase of a camera with our name and logo on it, as the purchase does not benefit Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Thank you for your understanding.

Tom Miller, on behalf of the
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Coordinating Team

Canon to halt development of film cameras

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Canon Inc. said on Thursday that it would halt development of new film cameras to focus resources on digital models, the latest sign of the rapidly fading role of film in photography.

A spokesman at Canon, the world’s largest maker of digital cameras, said it made the decision to freeze development of both compact and single lens reflex (SLR) film models because the markets for both are shrinking.

Canon said it would continue to produce and sell existing models and make a final judgment on the business in the future while monitoring market demand.

Continue reading at Reuters

This is becoming a familiar story. It sucks, but I can’t say I’m surprised. At least they’re keeping the current models around, which IMO is a very good thing. If you’ve already got money in Canon EOS glass for digital, US $300 for an Elan 7N body is one hell of a value if you want to shoot film.

Via Plaid Jello

f295 adds DIY photography forum

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Tom Persinger’s f295, home of the excellent International Pinhole Photography Discussion Forum, have added the DIY (Do It Yourself) Photography Discussion Forum, "dedicated to the exploration and discussion of self-made photographic equipment and materials".

The quality of conversation, experimentation, knowledge, and helpfulness on the pinhole forum is exceptionally high, and I expect this to be no different. Camera builders, lens hackers, homemade kit traders, come check it out!

(Note that this about a day old, so it may take some time to get up to speed.)