New Lomo’Instant Automat camera
Toronto. Lomography has initiated a Kickstarter program funding their new camera, the sophisticated Lomo’Instant Automat which uses Fuji instant FILM in a retro camera promoted to give wings to the user’s creative juices.
Katherine Phipps of Lomography sent me an email and this pdf promoting the company’s newest imaging instrument. The camera looks like an old Kodak Instamatic, uses the Fuji Instax Film, and has the automation common to digital cameras of today.
PHSC Image Show
Toronto. PHSC VP Ashley Cook is coordinating our Image Show this fall (November 27th) at the Arts & Letters club, 14 Elm street in Downtown Toronto. Ashley writes:
“The PHSC Image Show is BACK on Sunday, November the 27th!
Join us from 12 noon to 4 pm downtown at a new location!
“Currently joining us with their photographic selections are:
Clint Hryhorijiw,Laura Jones,Les Jones, and John Kantymir.
“Are you interested in vending at the Image Show?
We have a very limited number of tables remaining for dealers.
Contact the Image Show chairman, Ashley Cook here for more information.”
Like the logo for the Image Show? It is courtesy of the Graphics Fairy!
My little sister and our Aunt Lizzie on her farm c1950. I used a Kodak Brownie camera…
Toronto. My friend George Dunbar sent me a note after he visited this year’s CNE. His observations fit in with the posts I have been making over the last while – often based on material George himself provided. He muses here about the impact of the ubiquitous smart phone camera on the career of the professional photographer. Have a read…
Photography — What’s happened?
A Few Musings By George Dunbar
The explosion that’s taken place in amateur photography in the last 5-10 years is absolutely astounding! When I visited the CNE recently, I was surrounded by thousands of other camera-toting enthusiasts. They were shooting everything and anything with their modern, thin, flat devices that were unheard of only a decade ago. The multi-use camera phones are everywhere. I was embarrassed to be seen with my bulky Nikon SLR.
Every event is now captured by a multitude of camera-phones both still and video. Tourists appear to photograph everything in sight; weddings are photographed by most of the guests. Have these devices become an addiction? Some have been seen to photograph the Mona Lisa in the Louvre without so much as a second glance to absorb the actual object before their eyes. Millions of the images are quickly uploaded to Web sites for all to share. When one witnesses the phenomenon of these activities, it’s not unusual to see “selfies” being produced by the dozens. The “selfie stick” has achieved a reputation of its own!
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My Grandmother and her first five children – Orillia summer of 1900.
Toronto. Many genealogists like me have been thrilled to track down and identify photographs. I have many going back to 1900. My dad used a Kodak Junior Six-20 he bought in the 1930s so I have pictures of my early years.
Once I began earning money in the 1950s, I used 35mm film and cut film. For some negatives I made a print, but many others exist as negatives only. I am busy scanning these negatives and adding key words while I can still remember details and dates. Of course all you need is the naked eye to see these prints and negatives!
While digitizing makes key wording and “developing” a snap compared to the old analogue processes, one cannot easily see the result – digital prints and negatives require software and hardware compatible with the original digital files. Continue reading
Lincoln Park, Chicago in 1900.
Toronto. PHSC member and regular contributor to our web site, Sarah Shrigley, sent me an interesting email back in early July. Included in the email were many century old prints of American scenes, all quite sharp. While I cannot show her selection here, you can take a personal look on the archival site SHORPY. You will see some of the incredibly sharp images of a century ago.
The pictures Sarah included are prefaced with these words:, “Watch these magnificent pictures full screen. Extremely clear 100+ year old photos. Notice that everyone wore hats all the time and there were no cars. Exceptional photography! These photos of life in the US at the beginning of the 20th century are truly a walk back in time. The first photo below [east end of Bergen Tunnel NJ] looks the same today and many of you have entered it on the way to NY. The third photo shows how trolley cars were air conditioned in the summer [Labor Day Parade, Main St. Buffalo – all trolley car windows open… ] The clarity of these photos is truly phenomenal.”
Les Jones by Robert Lansdale – Dec 2006
Toronto. We welcome the return of author and sports photographer Les Jones as our Programs Co-ordinator. This Les’s second round in programs. His tenures have been marked by the variety of speakers he has chosen and the organization of the events well ahead of the scheduled dates. Click here to see our program for the balance of this year – and be sure to join us!
If you would like to see the fuller schedule, have a look at our July newsletter (16-3) – the schedule is on page six.
Note that Les also served as our president in 1995-97 and was instrumental in encouraging the PHSC to embrace the WWW when it was just beginning and few beyond computer techies even knew it existed.
1931 Movie “The Front Page”
Toronto. My friend George Dunbar dropped me a note late last month about this NY Times article with the above title. The article discusses a number of movies from the 1930s and their critiques of the time.
The article notes that almost all theatres world wide now show digital copies of films – even those shot on film! Discussion also covers the impact of talkies on the silent movies; impact of censorship; etc.
Read the article and enjoy a bit of nostalgia (I used to view selections at TIFF with my youngest daughter in that brief period between her graduation and marriage). Continue reading
Golden Horseshoe Postcard Club
Toronto. The Postcard Show for the Golden Horseshoe Post Card Club. are also selling vintage images this year.
Click here to see full details courtesy of our Programme Director Les Jones.
The show is at the Dundas Lions Club Memorial Hall in Dundas, Ontario near Hamilton and less than an hour away from Toronto.
. Bell Canada sent me a note on August 30th, 2016 suggesting I grab a phone or camera and take a picture (video). The picture/video must be taken September 10, 2016 and uploaded to CTV (see here for link and details). The submitted videos will be combined and shown on CTV as part of Canada Day next year.
It was interesting that we were advised to use our phone or alternatively a camera to take the picture/video. How times have changed. Not only will amateurs submit the footage, but they will most likely use a phone to do the job.
My little iPod Touch has both picture and video capability. The tiny lens is a 35mm equivalent. More and more I find myself using the camera for casual photos, uploads to messaging and emails, recording price data at a store, design details, etc.
As they say, “the best camera is the one in hand, not at home…”.
Toronto. The Daguerreian Society is arranging two NYC tours this October 19th and 23rd coincident with their annual Conference.
Click here or on the icon to see the tour times, dates, and details.
EVENTS
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Stan White – Poems & Photos
Mise Au Point – sur la photographie Quebecois
