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!
Month: October 2007
Polaroid Week is looking GOOD!
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! Grab a camera and get shooting!
Adox/Efke CHS 50 & 100 ART film reviews
Mark Antony Smith has nice reviews, with sample images, of Adox CHS 50 ART and Adox CHS 100 ART black and white films.
Fotoman free lens cone promotion
Fotoman Camera, makers of large format and medium format panoramic cameras, are having a sale:
Purchase any Fotoman Camera Kit, and select an additional Cone Assembly of your choice… free of charge.
This offer is limited to on-hand inventories, and is valid through December 31st, 2007.
Please contact any of our authorized dealers to take advantage of this limited time offer.
MTF charts demystified
MTF charts are graphs of lens resolution that are meant to give you an idea of how a given lens performs at different points across the frame. (Most lenses are sharpest in the centre and get a bit softer as you go out, and these charts illustrate that characteristic.) They’re easy to read once you understand them, but unfortunately they’re usually explained very badly.
Mike Johnston has put together the first sane and easy-to-understand breakdown I’ve ever seen. Check it out at The Online Photographer.
Interview with Therese Brown
Chris Keeney talks to pinhole/Holga/Polaroid experimental photographer Therese Brown as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.
You can see Brown’s work at her Web site, ThisIsWhatISee.com as well as on Flickr.
This one’s a must-read, so do it at ChrisKeeney.com.
It’s Polaroid week!
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 found, stolen, or have had laying around since high school and scan scan scan.
Here are our requests: please post photos you haven’t posted on Flickr before. Meaning, give us something new — don’t contribute a Polaroid to this group that you already posted last May. That’s just plain lazy. Also, please don’t post more than three photos to the pool a day.
C’mon. Play with us. You know you want to.
Love,
It’s simple. It’s awesome. Get shooting!