NEW LOCATION
Toronto. Friend and PHSC member Gary Perry tells me that his next show this fall will be held next Sunday on November 20th.
The show is in a new location, Edward Village Hotel (formally known as a Days Hotel & Conference Centre). The location is 185 Yorkland Bl here in Toronto.
Click here or on the icon at left for full details. Come out and add to your collection!
Canadian Photography Institute, Ottawa, Ontario
Toronto. The National Gallery of Canada has a photography section called the Canadian Photography Institute. The CPI has a very interesting pdf folder – my thanks to PHSC member and friend George Dunbar for bringing this institution to my attention.
You may remember the CPI – that’s where AMC will donate and move the extensive Matt Isenburg (Matt is a past speaker at the PHSC and a past president of the Daguerreian Society) collection over the next decade. AMC purchased the collection from Matt a few years ago. Please click here and read the brochure for more details.
Beautiful early 1900s Autochrome by John C Warburg from Mashable
Toronto. Once daguerreotypes gave us fine detail in mono colour or hand painted images, the holy grail became automatically coloured photos.
The first processes used various filters over a common mono colour (black and white) plate. The best commercial process in the early 1900s was the Autochrome. Created by the Lumiere brothers in France, Autochromes created additive process colour slides using dyed potato starch bits sprinkled on standard dry plates.
The plates were very slow like all the additive processes, and with relatively large potato starch bits, rather grainy. This process resulted in a hazy, dreamy colour image.
PHSC member and contributor to this site, Sarah Shrigley, reminded me of the Autochromes and offered this link to gorgeous samples taken the period from 1907 – 1925 by British photographer John C Warburg (1867 – 1931) and displayed on the Mashable web site.
TV Commercial
Toronto. I think the end of Television is coming even faster these days. My wife and I often watch old comedies with 1.5 to 2 minute long commercial breaks. A couple of years ago, my daughter loaned me some 30 Rock DVDs. It was noted on the case that each half hour segment was actually 23 minutes long – say 46 minutes of show and 14 minutes of advertisements if you chose to view the shows on TV.
Earlier this spring, I was surprised to discover that I could leave my living room during commercials and still get back before they finished. So I timed them. Yep, they were now 3 minutes long. Continue reading
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Toronto. The PHSC will be hosting its latest fall camera fair this October 16, 2016 at the Evans/Islington Ave Trident Hall in West End Toronto. Our thanks to Sonja Pushchak for the new poster design at left.
Click here for our journal version poster or on the icon at left to read or print a poster covering details. The sub items of the menu bar item FAIRS gives Exhibitor table reservation form, Exhibitor Rules, Location Map, etc.
Be sure to come out and enjoy the fall weather while you add to your collection or find that special piece of user gear!
Toronto. Rolf Eipper sent a note to editor Bob Lansdale that the fall camera meet in Vancouver will be held on November 6 this year from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Admission is $5 P/P
Antique, Vintage, Digital Cameras and Optics and everything else for Photography!
The show will be coordinated by Tonchi Martinic, replacing long time coordinator Siggi Rohde.
Exhibitors can reserve tables at $60 per table. For reservations, call Tonchi at (604) 681-8419 (note: a consignment table will be available at the Meet).
Address is: Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Drive at 16th Av, Vancouver BC
From Storm 2011 on dfable.com – A TTC “Red Rocket” plunging on in a snow storm
Toronto. I never realized that our editor of the PHSC Newsletter “PHSC News” is a photographer in his own right.
David Bridge mentioned to me that he had initiated MailChimp on his own website for use by the PHSC to distribute its newsletter.
I eventually got curious about his site and took a peek. What a wonderful selection of images. Kudos to our newsletter editor!
Oct 1950 HOLIDAY magazine ad for a V-M Camera
Toronto. My friend George Dunbar sent me an email the other day showing over a dozen magazine ads from mid last century. The magazines of that era had many small illustrated want-ad size listings, often for ways to get rich quick, fix various personal problems, own your own business, or save money.
The ad I chose today is from the October 1950 HOLIDAY magazine (in print from 1946 – 1977). The ad touts a View-Master 3D camera able to take 3D colour pictures for less than the cost of snap-shots. The wrinkle, of course, is that they are tiny colour slides that fit a seven scene View-Master reel.
The year 1950 was in the middle of the most recent surge in the popularity of 3D. Four years later, the first edition of the Stereo Realist Manual (I have a copy) was released. Unlike the View-Master camera, the Realist took an image about 3/4 the size of a 35mm slide – bigger than half frame but smaller than full frame. The various right and left images of shots mingled in a progressive and orderly way to save film.
Sample Image from the Rescued Film Project
Toronto. Some months earlier this year, Russ Forfar, a regular contributor to this site, sent me an interesting link to a person trying to rescue (i.e. process and print) some 66 bundles (about 1,200 rolls) of film shot in the 1950s by the same (unknown?) photographer and never developed.
You can learn about rescued film here on this web site. The person rescuing this particular bunch of rolls, Levi Bettwieser, chose indiegogo to raise money and by August of this year his venture has raised about a third more money than he first set out to raise. You can learn more about the Rescued Film Project here.
Huge Nikon Zoom Telephoto Lens
Toronto. Back in January of this year, member and past speaker Paul Pasquarello of Buffalo sent me a short note with a link to Petapixel.com and a story about a very expensive,very long zoom telephoto lens manufactured by Nikon.
The two biggest names in cameras these days are Canon and Nikon. Professionals in our society seem to be split. Some favour Canon and others Nikon. Regardless of your allegiance, have a look at this amazing piece of glass and how it should be transported, err… carried.
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