Month: April 2006

FILE Magazine toy camera photography contest

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FILE Magazine, an excellent online "magazine of unexpected photography", are holding a toy camera photography contest!

The Toy Camera Contest celebrates—you guessed it—Toy Cameras, the cheap and cheesy little cameras with low end specs and intriguing results. We encourage all amateur and professional photographers to enter this contest, and you may enter as often as you wish. Entries are accepted from April 24, 2006 until June 15, 2006 at midnight, Pacific Standard Time. And like any proper contest, there are rules, judges, and prizes.

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How to Submit: Use the Submission form (select "Toy Camera" in the Project drop-down list and enter the camera type with the Title) to upload a file, or use the Feedback form to send a URL that directly links to your image(s).

Read guidelines and submit work at filemagazine.com

Why are we still shooting slide film? answered by Ken Wronkiewicz

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Ken Wronkiewicz posted a rebuttal to my recent article, Why are we still shooting slide film?, bringing up something I completely failed to consider: slide film has a greater Drange (density range) than print film does. This means that while you give up dynamic range, you get a significantly better contrast range in what you do capture.

In light of this excellent point, I’ll keep shooting slides in low-contrast lighting such as overcast days. You can always get rid of unwanted contrast after the fact, but you can’t add it if you didn’t capture it in the first place.

Check out Ken’s complete explanation at wireheadarts.com.

Plastic Fantastic toy camera magazine: R.I.P.

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filmwasters member Out of Contxt (Bill Vaccaro) writes:

Eric Hathaway, editor of Plastic Fantastic magazine, has sent out a letter informing subscribers that it is ceasing publication effective May 1 [2006]. To summarize his letter, they couldn’t cut it fanancially and it was personally bleeding Eric dry.

From hindsight, some of the factors that led to PL’s demise are obvious: lack of a sustainable subscriber base and lack of outside revenue sources (ads). I know Eric was insistent that, apart from the Holgamods‘ ad on the back cover, that the magazine be ad-free. And I’m not knocking his decision to do so either. It’s takes a lot of courage to do what Eric attempted to do. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

In any case, I’m truly sorry to see it go. I know it was a labor of love for Eric and I’ll really miss getting my issues at my doorstep every few months. I always felt there was room for more than one publication devoted to toy cams. Damn shame.

The plasticfantasticonline.com site is already down. Update your links pages and break out the black armbands.

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Countdown: TOMORROW (Sun) is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is only one week away! If you want to participate, make sure you’ve got a camera built or bought in time by April 30, 2006!

See pinholeday.org for more info on the event. If you’d like to convert an existing camera or build one from scratch, the f295 Pinhole Photography Forum is an excellent resource.

There’s a long list of events and workshops happening, check out the list to see if there’s one near you.

f295 launch online pinhole photography gallery

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Tom Persinger, administrator of the f295 Pinhole Photography and DIY Photography forums, writes:

f295 is pleased to present an online gallery of images from a few select members of the f295 community!

The gallery currently includes work from:

Eddie Aleo Jr.
Bruce Berrien
Joe Van Cleave
Daryl Duckworth
Nick Dvoracek
Chris Ellinger
Earl Johnson
Tom Persinger
Nick Shuval-Sergeev
Steven Taft
Ralph Young

Soon f295 will unveil a formal submission process for one to be considered to have their own space in the gallery.

The gallery may be found at f295.org/gallery

Mamiya’s demise greatly exaggerated

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Here is an email from Bill Gratton of Mamiya America about some of the recent Mamiya news…

Good Morning Friends,

Some of you may have recently heard some rumors regarding Mamiya. Over the weekend there were a lot of ‘busy-bees’ on the internet making all sorts of speculations, including implications that Mamiya was going out of business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact Mamiya’s future is brighter than ever before. I’ve attached a copy of the official press release. It should help clear things up a little…

Continue reading at The Online Photographer

JPG Magazine release 1st year box set

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JPG Magazine says:

To celebrate the first year of JPG, for a limited time only, we’re selling a special box set of the first four issues! In addition to the four issues, the set also comes with a set of four high quality vinyl JPG stickers. Buy now, because supplies are limited!

The set is $59.99 plus shipping. That’s twenty bucks off the price of buying all four separately! And, of course, your support helps ensure the second year of JPG Magazine.

Order the set at jpgmag.com

Reminder: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is only one week away!

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is only one week away! If you want to participate, make sure you’ve got a camera built or bought in time by April 30, 2006!

See pinholeday.org for more info on the event. If you’d like to convert an existing camera or build one from scratch, the f295 Pinhole Photography Forum is an excellent resource.

There’s a long list of events and workshops happening, check out the list to see if there’s one near you.