Camerama Show this Sunday Nov 11th
Toronto. Is there a Rollei you lust after for your collection or use?
You may find one Sunday November 11th at PHSC member Gary Perry’s latest Camerama show in our fair city.
Its a small intimate and cozy show. Easy to fine, Free Parking, and lots of bargains just waiting for you!
Never been? Pity. Just click here for your poster complete with all the necessary details!
Ernemann Werke, Dresden c1925
Toronto. Before the fall of Germany at the end of WW2, Dresden was a major camera manufacturing centre. Ernemann built its famous Pentacon tower building and upon the founding of Zeiss-Ikon, it became the central manufacturing works of Zeiss-Ikon. Sadly, Dresden became part of the Soviet Union when post-war Germany was divided up by the major Allies (Britain, USA, Russia). The picture at left is from p. 161 of Larry Gubas’s fabulous book Zeiss and Photography (the definitive book on the subject). The picture was originally in the Ernemann catalogue of 1925. The tower remains to this day.
My good friend, journal editor, and long time PHSC member, Bob Lansdale, noted that the Western Canada Photographic Historical Association’s (WCPHA’s) most recent email includes a copyrighted article by Tom Parkinson on The Ernemann Tower. Those who are members also saw articles on their next meeting, The Leica CL, the discontinuation of Camera Shopper next month, fraudulent signatures and labels on some Daguerreotypes (frauds are a sure sign of the increased value of such items), and a new digital RF Leica.
Radio and Camera Show and Sale
Toronto. The Thornhill Heritage Foundation and the Ontario Vintage Radio Association are hosting a show and sale of vintage radios and over 100 cameras this coming Saturday, November 10th in Thornhill.
It will be held at 7780 Yonge Street in the historic Robert West House. If you like old cameras or vintage radios, make time to drop in this Saturday. You may even find a bargain to add to your collection of rare cameras!
My thanks to PHSC past president Mark Singer for passing along this email he received from Roger Jones.
Roger writes, “The Robert West Heritage House will host an Open House featuring an Antique Radio and Camera Exhibit and Sale…
Date: November 10, 2018
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Place: The Robert West Heritage House,
7780 Yonge Street, Thornhill
(north west corner of Yonge and Centre streets, next to the Thornhill pub.)
It is owned and operated by the Thornhill Heritage Foundation.
“The camera exhibit is quite extensive… well over a hundred cameras of many types and all ages. The radio exhibit is more modest… mostly my collection, radios dating from 1927 to 1950’s. You are cordially invited… admission is free. There will be a voluntary donation for those wishing to support the charitable foundation (THF) that runs the House.
“Hope to see you there!”
36 exp ISO 400 B&W film
Toronto. Our friends at Lomography have sourced a supply of German 35mm film and repackaged it in traditional 35mm rolls for classic film cameras. Current plans are to have it available for delivery next month.
You can visit this Google drive site to see examples of photos taken with this film. All details and more information is shown here in their PR pdf document.
If you love taking and processing the old film this information is very important to you!
TIME magazine cover by JR
for special guns article
Toronto. One of the remaining magazines is TIME. My subscription lapsed over 60 years ago. They recently published a special issue on gun control, a sore topic south of the border. Those of us old enough to remember television in 1980, may recall the show Dallas and its punch line at the end of one particular season, “who shot J.R.?”. Artnet News featured a story on this TIME article.
PHSC member and speaker Jeff Ward of Halifax writes, “I wonder if the readers of your blog would be interested in knowing about an interesting magazine cover that came out this week. It has been a while since I stood in front of a magazine rack but today I did, and I was struck by the TIME magazine cover.
“The cover features a photomontage of 245 Americans on either side of the gun debate, and the range of those in between the extremes. It was commissioned from a French photographer known only as JR. He photographed people from all over the US over 5 months and arranged them same way as the Notman studios would have more than a hundred years ago (except that he had digital technology to make it a little more seamless). A remarkable image in any century, nevertheless.
“I was also impressed by the attention that was given to photography throughout the rest of the issue. It is wonderful to see that print journalism still giving its all, even as the medium seems to be dying. I am seriously thinking about renewing a very moribund subscription!”
smart phone add-on lenses by
Toronto. … the one you have with you. And today more and more it means the one in your smart phone, a gadget so handy it seldom leaves your side.
To improve the modern smart phone’s single fixed lens camera even more, a company called Olloclip makes clip-on auxiliary lenses to make the built-in lens appear to have a shorter or longer focal length.
AppleInsider recently posted this article on the updated auxiliary lenses. Have a read – if you don’t yet use a smart phone, one of your children or grandchildren do!
AppleInsider is one of the blogs I regularly read for information on Apple and its products and apps. I have a few film cameras like my Leica M4, and a couple of digital cameras but my iPod Touch (a smart phone sans phone capability) is always with me.
Herbie
Toronto. I bought Herbie over a half century ago in this fair city. Herbie is a lucky Danish spider and once had a thread from its tummy for hanging it vertically.
Spider legs (and filaments) were also used in photography. The filaments acted as a fine focussing cross in fancy gadgets such as those that joined a camera body to a microscope.
On the other hand, spider legs once allowed rangefinder cameras to frame and focus small objects down to life-size (1:1). Leitz made and sold many varieties that took advantage of the 5cm and 3.5cm lenses. The design allowed extension tubes to adjust the camera to lens distance while the legs of the spider device set the lens to object distance and framed the area captured. Some could be used with either a screw mount or bayonet mount camera; others were limited to one lens mount design.
Even booklets and brochures that showed how to use these marvellous gadgets, complete with various tables.
Angenieux R 11 28mm in an Exakta mount
Toronto. A year ago this past spring, I did a post on the unusual lenses of Monsieur Pierre Angenieux of Paris. Surprisingly, this Paris, France optical company is still in business. The company was founded in 1935 by M. Angenieux.
Angenieux was born in the summer of 1907, a few months before my own father. He went on to create wide angle lenses for SLRs, Zoom lenses, and cinema/video lenses. A few years before his death in 1998, Angenieux sold his company to the Thales Group. The company became Thales Angenieux and since 2013 has sponsored the Pierre Angenieux Excellens in Cinematography each year at Cannes to pay tribute to a Prominent Director of Photography.
Daphne Yuen on digitizing Museum Photographic Albums
Toronto. PHSC Meeting, Wed, Nov 21 2018 at 7:00 pm
In the BURGUNDY ROOM of the Memorial Hall
Digitization Approaches to Photographic Albums – Daphne Yuen
Daphne has explored the relationship between photography and object materiality as a central theme throughout her career. She has investigated how photography questions and interprets reality in her photographic practice and academic research. This talk on her thesis (summarized in issue 44-2 of the Photographic Canadiana) investigates the current digitization approaches to photographic albums. Continue reading
Press Photographer – George Goodman in LIFE
Toronto. The old LIFE magazine had a column titled “speaking of pictures”. In its June 22, 1953 edition, LIFE presented would-be photographer George Goodman in this column. Goodman’s claim to fame was the marvellous series of skits he shot portraying various categories of photographer.
For example, the Press photographer at left was patterned on Weegee (Arthur Felig), a well known character in NYC in the mid 1900s. You may recognize the others shown in his tongue in cheek series in this issue beginning on page 12.
In the preamble Goodman says to his interviewer that he wants to be a magazine photographer. Perhaps it didn’t come about. I could find no mention of this particular Goodman.
Thanks once again to George Dunbar for his patience in sourcing articles and old photos of interest to our members.
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