Just a reminder that Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is only 22 51 (I am a tool, see comments) days 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.
photo-i have begun an interactive review of the Epson V700 Photo scanner that was just announced at PMA. (An explanation of their [excellent] interactive review process is at the top of the page.)
If you’re wondering why I’m posting scanner news on a film/pinhole/toy/alt process/experimental blog, it’s because most of us need to scan our film if we want to make backups or color prints. While I don’t post anything that relates only to mass-market digital—not because I have some dogmatic beef against it, but because sources for that sort of news are good and plentiful—I will continue to post about items like this that may have relevance for those of the mad scientist-photographer bent.
Via PhotographyBLOG
This solo show features work by Dutch pinhole photographer Danny Kalkhoven. It opens on 18 April, 2006, and will run for about a month at Centrale Bibliotheek Utrecht, Oudegracht 167, 3511AL Utrecht, NL.
You can see a preview of the show on Kalkhoven’ Web site.
Via the f295 Pinhole Photography Forum
The folks at Sushicam are working on putting the Lomo LC-A’s Minitar lens onto an Epson RD-1 digital rangefinder. As they point out, with the RD-1’s 1.5x crop factor, they’ll probably lose out on much of the vignetting, but there’s one way to find out!
I’ve long thought about adapting it for use on video cameras, perhaps using something like Media Chance‘s DoF Machine, and am quite curious to see what they get out of it.
Check out Part 1 and stay on the lookout for Part 2!
Via MAKE Blog
Check out Tom Persinger’s excellent instructions, with step-by-step photos, for making your own ground glass on the f295 DIY Photography Forum.
Via Katie Cooke
The "StenEAUpe" exhibition features pinhole photography by Claude Cogny, Christophe Frot, Marie-Noëlle Leroy and Erick Mengual.
The show runs from 13 March–2 May, 2006, at Centre Culturel André Malraux, 10 Av. Francis de Pressense-93350 Le Bourget, FR.
Friday, 17 March, 2006, 7–9pm
Monday to Friday: 9–12 and 2–6pm
Tuesday and Thursday: til 8pm
Saturday: 9am–12pm
More information at Actuphoto (en Français)
Via the Spitbite Pinhole Discussion List
The February 2006 issue (27) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.
PHOTOGRAPHY by: Denis Zimmermann, Gustav Almestål, Ivo Gretener, Jill Coleman, Jóse Moreira, Peter Gorman, Andrew Burlone, Olivia Barr, Samuel E Scott, Stephen Mallon, Warren Harold, and Trevor Brady
MUSIC by: Return to Mono
mooncruise.com (requires Flash 6)
Silverprint have done a quick review of Ilford‘s new Harman Cooltone and Warmtone B&W paper developers.
According to Silverprint, "Having now had a chance to lab test the new Ilford Warmtone and Coldtone developers, we can state categorically they are the most effective specialised print developers ever placed on the market."
Continue reading and see samples at Silverprint News.
Wilhelm Research has released their book, The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures, by Henry Wilhelm with contributing author Carol Brower—originally published in 1993—as a free, downloadable PDF.
You can get the individual chapters here at Wilhelm Research’s site, or from this direct link to the whole thing in one 79.6MB PDF file.
While I haven’t read it yet, chapter titles such as "Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, and Color Slides: Which Products Last Longest?", "Print Mounting Adhesives and Techniques, Tapes, Rubber Stamps, Pencils, Inks, and Spotting Methods for Color and B&W Prints", "Display and Illumination of Color and Black and-White Prints", and "Handling and Preservation of Color Slide Collections" have bumped it to the top of my reading list.
Thanks, Wilhelm Research!
Via Silverprint News
From Silverprint News:
"As they promised, the German company a&o, who aquired Agfa’s chemical range after the dissolution of AgfaPhoto, have lost no time in relaunching the range onto the market . All products are available apart from one or two of the more esoteric ones, Viradon toner and Sistan image stabiliser, and these are unlikely to be made again. However all the favourites are there, including Rodinal neg. developer and the Neutol print developers, and we are expecting the first big delivery on 1st March."