I’m looking to buy a bare Copal 0 or Compur 0 shutter. I don’t really care about cosmetics, but I do care that it works properly.
If you’re looking to sell one, please get in touch! As I’m in the US, shipping would obviously be more convenient if you are, too, but no sweat either way.
mooncruise* gallery announcement:
WHAT
NEW WORK An art opening featuring the photography of BRENT BENNETT
WHERE
mooncruise* gallery
235 Cambie Street (Gastown)
Vancouver, BC, Canada
WHEN
Friday, April 21, 2006
7.30–10pm
Comprised of urban cityscapes and portraits, ‘New Work’ is a rare presentation from photographer BRENT BENNETT which highlights this talented and unique artist’s ability to capture the beauty of the bleak.
For more information contact mooncruise* gallery at 604.685.9575, or visit www.mooncruisegallery.com
Don’t: Cyanotypes and Cross-processing Both of these are Alternative Processes, which is a required course in most college photo programs. It’s like forcing a painting class to forage for their pigments amid nuts and flowers. “Alternative” means experimenting with the flexibility of the print-film process or something. Cyanotypes are all blue and splotchy. Cross-processing is where the colors are supersaturated, like that movie 21 Grams. Like using filters in Photoshop, it always looks bad.
Don’ts: Cell-phone Cameras, Cindy Sherman, Closeups, Crooked framing, saying “Cheese”
Dos: Color, Cinematographers, Collages, Cartes de visite (small portraits, about the size of a business card, popular during the 1860s)
If the author is serious, [s]he is a complete wanker, but ironic or not, the whole list is funny as hell. Read it at Viceland.com. ([S]/He is also wrong. Cross processing can yield muted pastel or black and white as well as saturated palettes, and cyanotypes are usually blue but can be toned to a variety of non-blue colors and are only splotchy if you make them that way.)
My dos and don’ts are: do shoot however you want to and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Mark O’Brien has written a generic instruction manual for using old folding cameras. Contains heaps of example pictures and should be enough to get you started.
Folding cameras are usually quite reasonably priced, are easy to carry, generally have good optics, and can provide an inexpensive way into medium format. While this PDF tells you how to use them, certo6.com has a good feature/shooting experience overview for many of the more common folders.
Exhibition announcement:
People are using cameras in ways previously reserved for "the professionals". Digital photography is allowing us to capture the images we see, and make images we feel.
So many photographers are making so many different styles of photography – and the best is yet to be discovered – because its hiden away on a hard drive.
Now we go a step further.
EXPOSURE takes these images from hard drives to the gallery walls – celebrating the modern day photographer – each with his or her own vision and completely unique perspective. We avoid competition. Instead we embrace our differences, then feed from the inspiration that they yield.
Flickr has provided a hub – a global online community. Individuals from every corner of the planet are sharing their work with thousands of people. This incredible resource has given today’s photographer a new playing ground.
Some professionals still say that these photographers don’t do it the way they used too. That might be true. But we choose to focus on the way we need to do it now and look towards the future!
EXPOSURE is that FUTURE!
OUR DEBUT GALLERY SHOW will Feature the work from 15 photographers, and will be headlined by DEAN M. BEATTIE (DMB05)!!!
Dean’s career spans more than 13 years of professional image making and a wide spectrum of genres, wedding, photojournalism, corporate, architectural, portrait, and fine art.
For the first time his fine art nude figure studies will be on display.
Other Photographers on display:
Craig E Biertempfel
Hans Rosemond
Stephen A. Hall
David Kent
Robert Strovers
Dan Buczynski
Jim Orsini
Cate Whitehead
Sharon West
Todd Hryckowian
Chris Nicholson
Matt Niemi
Charles Schneider
Julie Schneider
Joey Kennedy
Music will be provided by DJs Kelly Carter & Walter along with live sax/flute by Jason May.
COME! Be apart of this community known as EXPOSURE!
7-11 pm
FRIDAY April 7th 2006
@ GarfieldArtWorks
[4931 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA]
—> Gallery show will be followed by an A F T E R P A R T Y @ LOT 17 , LocationL: 4617 Liberty Ave [Bloomfield]
10pm-2am with DJs Joyboy & Kelly Carter
Lot17: 2 blocks up from the Bloomfield Bridge, opposite side of the street <--- Flyer design: Dan Buczynski aka Macwagen
"Here Brian shows how to build a homemade cheap flash bouncer. The flash bouncer can be used to increase the size of a hot-shoe flash. The bouncer is great and very easy to build. An alternative to the bouncer is the home made softbox. Another option for building this homemade flash bouncer is to use polypropylene sheet, it is sterdier then cardboard."
Read how-to at DIYPhotography.net
Via MAKE Blog
Mike Johnston (of The 37th Frame fame, among others) notes:
Approximate percentage of full-time or near-full-time professional photographers who now shoot digitally: >90
Approximate percentage of contemporary prints sold by major auction houses that were made and/or printed digitally: <10
Discuss at The Online Photographer
Well, the rumour that I’ve written about previously is true: Hasselblad are discontinuing the XPan panoramic rangefinder camera.
According to this article in the British Journal of Photography,
The decision follows new EU regulations—known as ROHS approvals—which come into effect on 01 July, designed to cut back on hazardous waste.
The approvals state that new electrical equipment cannot contain lead, cadmium or many other hazardous materials.
This means that lead soldering can no longer be used in the cameras’ circuit boards. The use of non-lead designs are more complex and would necessitate a total redesign of the cameras.
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He [Hasselblad CEO Christian Poulsen] predicted supplies would run out in the next two months, but promised that support would continue for another 10 years.
While I won’t say that their reason for pulling it is outright bullshit, I will say that it certainly smells like it. I could be wrong, but I fail to see why a solder change would necessitate a redesign at all: simply put lead-free solder in the wave solderer that assembles the circuit boards and that’s that. We’re talking about solder. It carries electricity between points A and B. We’re not talking about the banning of resistors here.
The article does go on to say that Hasselblad are working on a "tilt-shift solution" and that more information will be available at the Photonika trade show this September, so maybe it’s not all crap news after all.
Read article at the British Journal of Photography’s Web site
"The Fifth Annual Gathering of the Argus Collector’s Group is being held in Martinsville, Virginia May 19–21, 2006. This event which began as a get together for ACG member from the East Central part of the United States has turned into a wonderful gathering of Camera collectors from all over the world…"
More info at the Argus Collector’s Group event site
f295 founder Tom Persinger writes:
If you’re looking for an event to participate in for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, may I suggest f295’s “Simultaneous Pinhole Project” at 7pm GMT 30 April 2006.
As part of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, f295 is sponsoring “The Simultaneous Pinhole Project”. A project in which participating members of f295 will make an image at roughly the same moment across the world. Participants will use their pinhole cameras to capture the outside world at GMT 7:00pm. Local times to be adjusted accordingly (eg: GMT 7pm would be 2pm EST, 10am Alaska, 5am Sydney, etc.)
Event URL:
http://www.pinholeday.org/events/index.php?event=1140
Time Zone Map: http://www3.shastacollege.edu/dscollon/images/time_zone_map.JPG
Your pinhole images should contain part of the outside world. If it’s dark in your corner of the globe at the appointed time, feel free to photographlooking out a window with a light/still life in the foreground. The idea is to see the different parts of the world outside at the same moment.
When images are uploaded to the pinholeday.org website please remember to include them in the f295 group. This is a new sorting feature and will allow users to view the series in it’s entirety at the same time.
