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Photographic Canadiana 49-3

Toronto. This is our third issue for volume 49. It rounds out the four issues for 2023. Once again David and Louise have done a fine job! All Members WITH an email address AND a valid subscription to our MailChimp … Continue reading

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sunrise, sunset

Toronto. A new post by photographer Brian Matiash discusses photos taken at the beginning and end of the day. His advice by and large applies to digital today as it did to film years ago.  As a kid wet behind … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2024

Toronto. We at the PHSC wish you all a Happy New Year in 2024. The photo shown at left  is a New Year’s 1900 cover shot courtesy of the Edwardian Promenade web site. Jan 1, 2024 begins our new membership … Continue reading

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smart lens …

Toronto. We are familiar nowadays with smartphones, but what about a smart lens? Just over a century ago (1922), the lens shown here went to Australia to aid in proving a theory published in 1916. Another example of the valuable … Continue reading

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take a squint …

Toronto. … at the Logy Bay giant squid c1873. 150 years ago last month this photo of a giant squid put to rest the tales of sailors and fishermen, or so the CBC reported. The beginning of the CBC article … Continue reading

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a disastrous time

Toronto. Do you remember 1906 and the massive earthquake that hit San Francisco? As I have often said, photography brings events and history to life down through the ages. There is a fault line that runs all the way to … Continue reading

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remember Dr Barnardo?

Toronto. We see in this article another example of photography recording history. In the article, “British Home Children: Antique box tells heart-breaking history” reported by Eloise Alanna, a box of glass slides from Glasgow lands in Canada to complement the … Continue reading

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a tasty treat

Toronto. This article is a followup to our boxing day post. We have all heard/made gingerbread houses, but what about a gingerbread [box] camera that takes photos? CBC news the other day commented, “New Westminster’s Dmitri Tcherbadji loves film cameras … Continue reading

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boxer

Toronto. And here we are once again at an official boxing day! To commemorate this event, at left is an old film box camera from a recent auction lot. Box cameras are the basic camera design: a fixed focus lens … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas 2023 from all at PHSC

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