Category Archives: activities-other

Graflex Historic Quarterly 19-2

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Robert

Toronto. This is the latest issue of Ken Metcalf’s newsletter, Graflex Historic Quarterly 19-2. Click here or on the icon above and enjoy this newsletter devoted to these grand old cameras long used by the newspaper photographers of the day. … Continue reading →

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Graflex Historic Quarterly 19-1

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Robert

Toronto. Our friend Ken Metcalf edits the quarterly newsletter for the Graflex Historic Society out on the west coast of the USA. You may remember seeing newspaper photographers of the past century using these magnificent big cameras to capture photos … Continue reading →

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A New look at Toronto over the passage of time

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Robert

Toronto. Member and friend George Dunbar often comes up with the most interesting of ideas. He recently sent me a note suggesting I take a look at this video by Kwan called simply “Time”. This is the full note posted on … Continue reading →

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175 years ago

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Robert

January, 1839 not one but TWO photographic processes where announced. I often wonder what Daguerre or Fox Talbot would think today about cameras and digital images. The comic “Betty” says it nicely – Betty asks her husband “Do today’s students … Continue reading →

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Game Boy in 2000

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Robert

NYC May 6, 2014. One of my regular blog reads, DF Fireball, noted this post by David Friedman, a New York photographer.  Friedman posts odd images and comments on his Ironic Sans blog. He mentions taking photographs with a Game … Continue reading →

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Heartbleed

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Robert

Toronto, April 9, 2014. I was surprised to read the Globe and Mail news at breakfast this morning (on line, not in the paper, as yet) that the CRA closed its web site due to a bug in the OpenSSL … Continue reading →

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PhotoTree.com and old images

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Robert

Toronto, March 20, 2014. One of the Founders of the PHSC, John Linsky, called me this afternoon about a site called PhotoTree. This site says it is “dedicated to research, restoration, and preservation of 19th and early 20th Century Photographs”. … Continue reading →

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Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Robert

Thanks to member John Bock, a familiar face at the Photographica Fairs, for noting an interesting article by Chuck Delaney on the salt paper and albumen prints of Paris by Marville before some city streets and neighbourhoods were torn up … Continue reading →

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Butterflies and Buffalo Camera

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Robert

Stan White always sends me an interesting tidbit. In this case, it is a doozy! This mammoth camera will be used to capture portraits of some fifty distinct cultures in the states. The camera’s purpose is captured by this brief … Continue reading →

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31st Annual Photo Show in Washington DC

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Robert

Member Tom Rall announced his “Biggest and Best Antique Photo Show Yet”. The show is a week this Sunday, on March 16, 2014 at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, 1900 N Ft. Myer Dr, Arlington, Virginia. Check the poster and the … Continue reading →

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