Game Boy in 2000

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Robert

DF_GAMEBOY_ROCKCENTERNYC 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 Boy back in the year 2000. He doubled the image size of the 160 x 144 pixel images (sample at left) to show them today. Clicking on the one I chose to illustrate this post will show you a 200% enlargement – pixels and all.

David has a site for his day to day professional photographs as well. Have a look.

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Spring Photographica-Fair May 25, 2014

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Robert

PHSC-fair-May-2014-smToronto, May 25, 2014. Come out and enjoy our 40th fair this spring.  We are at the same location as last year – the Soccer Centre on Martin Grove just a quarter mile south of Highway 7.

Details are on the full size poster here.  The spring fair is one of our 40th anniversary events. Come out and enjoy the day.

Everyone welcome – students free, bus free to and from Kipling Subway  “Kiss-N-Ride”.

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CONTACT and Campbell House May 2014

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Robert

CHM-40th-smToronto, May 3 – 29, 2014. The PHSC is featured at Campbell House in this year’s CONTACT event. Campbell House is a well known museum situated downtown on the north-west corner of Queen and University in Toronto. Double the Pleasure, Triple the Fun is our theme at Campbell House.

Featured are a Stereographic Exhibition, a 3D walking tour of Toronto, an Anaglyph workshop, stereo collections hands-on session, a lecture, our PHSC monthly meeting, and the PHSC closing party.

The people involved, directions and details are shown on the full size poster.

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2nd Annual Image Show Tomorrow!

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Robert

ImageShowPosterV1-smToronto, April 27, 2014. It’s coming this month. Our second annual image show and sale will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion 101 in Long Branch, home of our show last year and our recent auctions
The Image Show, one of our 40th anniversary events,  will be held the day after the Bill Belier Memorial Symposium.   Full details are shown on the book mark. Map, times, and the very modest admission price. Exhibitors can reach Ashley Cook for table reservations via fair@ phsc.ca.

Everyone is welcome. Come along and expand your collection of images by buying a few at this great event. The exhibitors’ offer everything from vintage daguerreotypes to recent silver prints… Click the above image for a detailed poster.

Need directions? Here is Google Maps:

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Newsletter 13-11

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Robert

Toronto April 11, 2014. We have another newsletter from the desk of editor David Bridge. Ten pages of information of interest to camera and image collectors old and new.

From left: cover of 13-11, Meredith Reddy to speak this month, Dr Ted Grant, our speaker last month (via DVD),

From left: cover of 13-11, Meredith Reddy to speak this month, Dr Ted Grant, our speaker last month (via DVD), Bob Wilson and Clint Hryhorijiw at our March Auction, Pictures of the PHSC in times past, our 40th anniversary events, Spike Bell of Windsor, and a brass lens and trio of gadgets from our newsletter columns.

Just click on the above montage to read and print this wonderful and colourfully illustrated edition of our newsletter as we moved ever closer to our 40th anniversary (I must be getting a bit old, errr mature 🙂

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Heartbleed

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Robert

Gable at the GlobeToronto, 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 library it uses. Rats!  Just when I was ready to do my taxes too! As I read more, the bug and its potential was downright scary.

Tonight, I read about the bug on John Gruber’s site, Daring Fireball,  I am a regular reader of Gruber’s blog and followed his link to Bruce Schneier’s blog. Schneier is CTO at Co3 Systems and has been in the security business for over a decade. His blog, Schneier on Security has a link to test for the bug. PHSC appears to be clean. Phew!

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NEW YORK PHOTO SHOW

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Robert
New York Photo Show

New York Photo Show

New York, April 11-12, 2014. US Photo Shows presents another spring image show at the Lighthouse in NYC. If you plan to be in NYC, drop by the Lighthouse and increase your image collection.

The images range the whole gamut – antique, vintage, modern and digital. Click on the icon at left to see and print the poster.

The organizer’s web site is www.usphotoshows.com.

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Haunted Mediums: Photographs of Supernatural Phenomena 1880-1930

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Robert
Meredith Reddy

Meredith Reddy

NEXT TORONTO MEETING:
Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

We have an exciting and spooky talk in April! Our guest speaker is U of T doctoral candidate Meredith Reddy.

Meredith writes, “I am a PhD candidate in the department of art history at the University of Toronto, and am defending my dissertation – titled Haunted Mediums: Women, Photography, and Spiritualism, 1880-1930 – this spring.  My research over the last six years has been concerned with the photography of seances and mediums.  In recent years, I have also taught classes in Twentieth-Century European Art at U of T. ”

Come on out and share an interesting evening with Ms Reddy. The public is welcome.  Go to our Programs page for times and directions.

 

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PhotoTree.com and old images

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Robert
PhotoTree.com

PhotoTree.com

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”.

Take some time to browse the site and see how it can help you identify the kinds of images you have and their dates.

The restoration processes suggested by the site are to use Photoshop on digital copies and preserve the original images as is.

Whether you are a beginner or experienced image collector, you will find something of interest on this site.

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Newsletter 13-10

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Robert
From left: cover of 13-10, 40th anniversary logo, first president John Linsky at 25th anniversary, lens from the net, death of suspicious colour photographer, class plate image from query.

From left: cover of 13-10, 40th anniversary logo, first president John Linsky at 25th anniversary, lens from the net, death of suspicious colour photographer, glass plate image from query.

Editor David Bridge was at it again. This is his latest opus. Just click the mage above to download or read your copy. We announce this month’s program, review last month’s program, offer posters for the auction, fair, and our 40th anniversary. We have an article from our 25th anniversary. There is a question on glass plates and what we believe is a c1900 phoney colour photography announcement. Read your copy of 13-10 today!

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