Bye-bye fourth layer… (PDF)
Category: Random
Fuji launches square Instax SQ1 cameras & film
Check out the new Instax SQ1 from Fuji. AE cameras and color & B&W film shipping in October.
DPReview has a review, check it out.
Hammerforum
Seems like all gear-heavy endeavors are fundamentally the same:
With the recent camera releases (or maybe Spring fever) I’ve been rather amazed watching various photography forums have major melt downs during the last few weeks. I said something about cameras and lenses just being tools, not life and death, and got immediately annihilated. They aren’t just tools, I was told, they are the means to make a living for some people, and the passionate hobby of others. That got me thinking, though: I have friends who make their living as carpenters, and others for whom woodworking is a passionate hobby. I got to thinking how silly their forums would seem if they acted like we do:
So, here’s a thread from Hammeruser.com…
Continue reading at the Lensrentals Blog
Gallery of 4×5 Kodachromes from the 1940s
Check them out at Pavel Kosenko’s blog.
Re-framing Photo Books
When I think about photo books as a collection of frameable repro prints that I could cut out and hang on the wall, they seem like a hell of a deal. Rotating prints through a frame and getting to actually live with the work, for $40-150? By Grabthar’s Hammer!
“Real” print prices being what they are, the realistic maximum number of pieces I’d end up with from any given artist is one. As a viewer, if you want me to really experience your work by living with it, a book is a good way to go.
As an [f]artist, I’d be elated if someone did that to one I’d made.
Spring ‘Roid Week 2010 starts this Monday, May 3!
It’s almost that time again! Polaroid Week Spring 2010 will be May 3–7. Participating is easy: make some pictures on any instant film and post them to the ‘Roid Week 2010 group on Flickr (free accounts work).
Don’t be scared off now that Polaroid means horrendously expensive, you can play on the cheap: Fuji still makes really nice peel-apart instant film in both color and black and white that are cheaper than Polaroid was when it was in production. If you need a camera, you can grab a Holga-like, zone focus Polaroid Super Shooter or Super Shooter Plus on eBay for under 10 bucks, or a rangefinder-focused Automatic 100 [pic] or Automatic 250 [pic] for $25–30. Want integral film (the kind the spits out the front of the camera)? Check out Fuji Instax!
Blog maintenance
I’m taking the blog down for a few minutes for maintenance. It should be back up shortly.
Update: aaaaaaand we’re back.
All your Burning Man photos belong to Burning Man
Problem: people get naked at the Burning Man festival. People take pictures of them and post and/or sell them on the Internet.
Burning Man’s "solution": they steal the copyright (PDF) to all photos taken at the festival.
The Burning Man spokesperson says:
"Our main concern in enacting the policy was to be able to create this weeklong cultural bubble where people can express themselves without worrying about their image being plastered all over the Internet," she said, reiterating that Burning Man wants to be able to take down these images if the poster refuses.
"There are a lot of nude people out here, and this protects the school teacher from Iowa who doesn’t wasn’t want to appear on a porn site," she said. "I acknowledge that the copyright law is heavy-handed way of handling this, but it’s the only tool we have right now.
More here at The Legal Satyricon and here at XBIZ (which is a porn industry news site and may have NSFW ads).
I’m not a lawyer, but I think a saner approach would be to have a photo agreement that states that you aren’t allowed to do whatever they object to, and specify a very heavy remedy if you do it anyway.
Via Jonathan Block