Fall Camerama Show – November 24, 2013

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Robert

GP-Leica-M6-150x150TORONTO November 9, 2013. Gary Perry is hosting his latest show on  Sunday  November 24th, 2013 at his new location: Days Hotel and Conference Centre in Toronto.

The Days  Hotel is at 185 Yorkland Bl. (near Highway 404 and Sheppard) – good parking in the hotel lots. Admission only $7 – 10 am to 3 pm. Click image at left for a poster and more details.

VENDORS: If you haven’t already confirmed with Gary, please email him at gv.perry@gmail.com to confirm your table rental. Table charge is $50 and includes entry for vendor and one helper (all helpers must arrive before 10am and be actually working with the vendor).  Vendors are expected to occupy their tables until 3pm.

 

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Harry Enchin: TorontoTIME

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Robert
Toronto Then and Now Harry Enchin

Toronto Then and Now
Harry Enchin

Toronto, November 9, 2013. Thanks to members John Linsky and John Allman for bring to our attention Toronto Photographer Harry Enchin. Harry took a selection of Toronto Archives photos and merged portions with his modern colour images photographed at the same spot and time.

Harry uses different materials such as fabrics to display his images. While the show here in the city at the Akasha Art Projects 2013 ended last month, his videos and the Toronto Life article can be seen here or by clicking on the icon.

George Dunbar made similar shots by combining archival images with modern ones so half the image is old and half is a carefully merged new colour image.

George goes on to say, “A number of Enchin’s photo treatments can be found here.
“Another photographer (Alden Cudanin) developed a similar technique shown here.
“My own ‘best effort’ is this one“.

We were formally  introduced to this concept of rephotography by Andrzej Maciejewski in March 17, 2010 at a monthly Toronto meeting. Andrzej used slides from two of his books to show Montreal spots photographed a century apart at the same time of day and day of the year which he calculated using shadows in the original image.

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Lutz Dille’s Photos on display

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Robert
Toronto Orangemen Parade 1964

Toronto Orangemen Parade 1964

Toronto, November 4, 2013. According to U of T Magazine, the UTAC (University of Toronto Art Centre) is hosting 22 gelatine silver prints of the city taken by photographer Lutz Dille, a German-born photographer and filmmaker who lived in this city for three decades.

The photos are on display until November 14, 2013. They return in the New Year for a second showing. Go to the UTAC site for more details.

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Nikon Df Full Frame Digital DSLR

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Robert
Nikon Df from Nikon Rumors

Nikon Df from Nikon Rumors

Toronto, November 4, 2013. Member Paul Pasquarello of Buffalo sent me this interesting tidbit this morning on the imminent Nikon full frame small DSLR answer to the recent Sony A7 and A7r announcement. The images come courtesy of the Nikon Rumors site. If you Google “Nikon Df” you will see many other sites and details on this little retro looking camera.

The difference, of course, is the wealth of lenses already available for full frame Nikon cameras – an area where Sony is still catching up.

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Mapping out the photographic network in 19th century Canada: a work in progress

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Robert
Shannon Perry by Robert Lansdale

Shannon Perry by Robert Lansdale

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, Nov. 20, 2013.
A WORK IN PROGRESS: Shannon Perry. 

Ms Perry spoke with us on WWII Colour Photographs in November two years ago (2011 11 19). She is currently working as a photo archivist within the newly formed Archival Description department at Library and Archives, Canada. Shannon holds an M.A. in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University in Toronto and George Eastman House in Rochester N.Y..

The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions. Continue reading →

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Khumbu glacier in gigaplex

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Robert
Khumbu Glacier by David Breashears

Khumbu Glacier by David Breashears

Toronto, October 28, 2013. Last December Ken Metcalfe out on the West Coast sent me an interesting article from the Washington Post. David Breashears photographed  the erosion of the Khumbu glacier (next to Mount Everest) from the inroads of climate change. I saw this first hand a decade ago at the Columbia Icefields in the Canadian Rockies – shocking.

Breashears uses the gigapixel process. The image seems like that created by the Gigapan mechanism  as first shown to us on November 19, 2008 in a talk by Felix Russo. The panorama Breashears shot is an astonishing 3.8 billion pixels! Thanks to the Washington Post you can click on the image and go into panorama mode and magnify any portion to see the amazing details. Have a look here for yourself! And think of what we are doing to the environment…

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Paris… in the fall

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Robert
Paris by Lansdale

Paris by Lansdale

Toronto, October 25, 2013. Editor Bob Lansdale is back from the Daguerreian convention in France, home of the beginnings of photography. Bob shot many images of the Gallic city and his fellow members of the Daguerreian Society. You can see them all on Shutterfly using this link to view the thumbnails. NOTE:Link updated October 30, 2013. Continue reading →

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Running on Mavericks

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Robert
Apple OSX 10.9

Apple OSX 10.9

Toronto October 25, 2013. That was simple. On Tuesday of this week Apple announced the release of Mavericks, its latest version of OS X – and it is free. The last couple of releases have been downloads that overwrite the existing system and this was the same. The features are much the same as the previous release but with a tip to the number of laptops sold (about 3x desktops) the major feature is lower battery life. There is also much better memory management. Continue reading →

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Hooked on History – The Magical Movie Machines

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Robert

Toronto, October 16th, 2013.
Hooked on History – The Magical Movie Machines

Would you buy a used car from this man?

Would you buy a used car from this man?

Last Wednesday was Movie Night at the PHSC meeting, complete with free popcorn. President Mark Singer brought his VHS recorder and showed a really interesting old video.  The VHS print was recorded on a simple blank cassette and wrapped with a plain black and white paper sleeve. While the resolution was lousy – typical VHS TV quality, the correct aspect ratio and adequate lighting made the viewing comfortable with modern day technology even though the colour was over saturated.

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New Sony Full Frame Mirrorless Digital Cameras

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Robert

SonyA7Toronto, October 19, 2013. I wonder if we are seeing a new trend in cameras? My NEX-6 is a wonderful little camera to use with its APS-C  sensor. It was preceded by the NEX-7 model which has a higher resolution sensor at 24 MPX.

Now Sony has dropped the NEX tag (according to one blog I checked), the interchangeable lens cameras are all called Alpha and the point and shoots are Cyber-shot cameras, even the high end models. The  potential market share for their mrrorless Alpha cameras with FF sensors is very interesting. The mirrorless design is smaller and lighter than today’s DSLRs and now has the larger sensor as well. Photoreview.com.au in Australia has one of the early reviews of the A7 and A7r cameras – take a look.

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