Toronto. The PHSC Spring Fair will be held May 31, 2015 at our new home in Etobicoke (Toronto) at the Trident Hall on Evans just east of Islington below the Gardiner.
Click here to see a full size bookmark with all the details including how to find our new home.
The public is welcome. Enjoy the show, and stay for the pierogies!
Toronto. the latest PHSC Image Show will be held this spring on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at the Legion Hall 101 on the Lakeshore just west of Brown’s Line. Come out and join us at this familiar venue for a wealth of exciting photographic images.
Click here to see a larger view of the book mark with directions and details. The public is always welcome. Students will gain free admission with a valid Student ID.
Toronto. PHSC announces its spring consignment auction. We are back at the Legion Hall 101 down on the Lakeshore just west of Brown’s Line. All sellers and buyers are welcome. Turn your old gear into cash and get more things for your use or your collection.
Click here to see the poster in larger size. Rules are listed under the AUCTION drop down menu on the web page.
Click here to see a larger poster with show address and more.
Toronto. PHSC Member Gary Perry keeps busy. Fresh from the PHSC show in late October he is hosting another Camerama Camera Show over in Scarborough at the Delta Toronto East on Kennedy Rd at the 401.
Gary is a long time member and his shows are often filled with interesting cameras and gadgets for users and collectors alike.
Just click here or the icon at left to see a full size poster with all the details.
**IMPORTANT** In an email tonight (November 3) Gary asked that “all emails regarding the show be addressed to this address: torontocamerashows@gmail.com.” Also, he asked that “Vendors please load/unload from the parking garage (level 3). It will be far too cold for us to keep the side door open!”
Mike Robinson, Modern Daguerreotypist, by Robert Lansdale
NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed Nov 19th, 2014
The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype – Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson is an artist-practitioner, teacher, and historian of the daguerreotype. He works with the AMC collection in Toronto, serving as researcher and conservator. He has researched and written on the studio practice of Southworth and Hawes (Boston) for the Young America catalogue and for the Daguerreian Society annual.
He has made Daguerreotypes to support conservation research for the George Eastman House, The Metropolitan Museum, the Library of Congress and his own initiatives.
Come on out and share an interesting evening with Mike. The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions. Continue reading
Ashley, Judy, and Judy’s pooch
Toronto. Bob Lansdale took a number of pictures at the recent Rochester Symposium and is delighted to share them with everyone.
To visit his photos taken at the October Symposium in Rochester, click on this link. To see a larger view automatically, also click on the “slideshow” button just above the word “PHOTOHISTORY” part way down on the left side just above the album of thumbnails.
Note that BobLansdale is also the PHSC editor of the journal, Photographic Canadiana, founder of the Newsletter, and News sheet, official photographer for the Daguerreian Society, etc. Enjoy!
iMac Desktop Yosemite
Toronto. Yesterday, Apple announced its OS X 10.10 operating system. The download was free. I decided to go after the latest version of OS X called Yosemite for my aging summer of 2007 iMac.
The servers at Apple must have been busy. It took hours and hours to download and eventually install. Like all OS X releases, this one installed without a bump and although my system is now seven years old it ran fine. Initial speed was very slow, as some other applications were downloading at the time, but tonight it seems to be running very well. If you have a Mac made in mid 2007 or more recently, go for it.
If you would like a review of the changes, read John Siracusa’s review of Yosemite at Ars Technica. Worth the read. Thanks to John Gruber of Daring Fireball for the suggestion.
Montreal Camera Show this Sunday, October 19, 2014
Montreal. What a wonderful city for a fall visit. Sol Hadef will be hosting his 54th show on the west island this coming Sunday.
Click here or on the icon at left to see or print a larger poster with more details. Enjoy the city. Enjoy the show.
(Full disclosure, I spent about a quarter of my life in Montreal, went to two universities there, and my two girls were born in Montreal).
Don’t miss the latest of these long running shows in La Belle Province!
Ziegfeld Follies showgirls from the 1920s by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Toronto. The night before he left for the latest TPHS symposium in Rochester, editor David Bridge sent me this latest PHSC Newsletter.
The newsletter introduces Ms Ronit Novak, our speaker for this month whose topic is Historic and Contemporary Ambrotypes. Mark Singer offers an interesting summary of Lorne Shields’ interesting talk on 19th century bicycles which was illustrated by Lorne’s photographs and expanded by his wide wealth of cycling knowledge. Well done Lorne!
We then turn to Ken Metcalf and the Graflex Historic Quarterly and its puzzling information about the 5×7 Graflex Naturalists. Read the article and if possible give the Graflex guys a helping hand.
A tiny Zeiss Tessar made by Krauss in Paris. It is attached to a Leitz extension tube that converts the microscope RMS thread of the Tessar to a screw mount Leica lens thread
Europe/UK. 1839 – what an amazing year. It started with a bang when not one but two revolutionary photographic processes were formally announced… and the race was on to make the fabulous new art faster and better.
Optical houses began to manufacture special photographic lenses beginning with Petzval’s famous design for the Daguerreotype cameras. In the mid 1800s Germany’s famous microscope optical institutes blossomed. By the end of the 1800s both cameras and microscopes were well known and refined. Early in the last century many microscope companies began to produce cameras and lenses including Leitz and Zeiss.
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Stan White – Poems & Photos
Mise Au Point – sur la photographie Quebecois
