TORONTO, March 17, 2013. Coming next month! Our well received annual auction has moved further west to just west of Brown’s Line (bottom of highway 27) at the Canadian Legion Hall 101, 3850 Lake Shore Bl West. Lots of parking and easy access via the TTC. North side of the Lake Shore immediately east of the street car loop.
Click the AUCTION tab above for details or icon at left for bookmark!
The auction is brought to you by the PHSC and Auction Guru Doug Napier.
Photo Network Expo. To register please click here www.photonetworkexpo.com.
Enjoy this new event – a weekend hosted by the Niagara School of Imaging. The event will be held in the old Maple Leaf Gardens – now the spanking new Ryerson University Mattamy Athletic Centre. As a special treat to our members, the above Promo code will give PHSC members who register online at photonetworkexpo.com the $40 two day special for for only $20!
Kodak Heights 1915
Toronto, Ontario. March 1, 2013. George Dunbar sent along this interesting period article on the building of the now lamented Kodak Canada facilities at Kodak Heights back in 1915 in the community of Mount Denis/Weston. The old communities have long been absorbed by the city of Toronto. To read the article click here or on the icon at left.
Nathan Ng
Toronto, Ontario. March 1, 2013. Nathan Ng emailed this morning to tell me about his latest successes in updating the myriad of old maps at the Toronto Reference Library. You will find these maps of great interest if like me, you have ancestors in our great city.
Nathan reports as follows… I’m writing to you because of the positive response I received from you and the PHSC last year, to my mapping project, Goad’s Atlas of Toronto — Online! (goadstoronto.blogspot.com) Continue reading
Washington, DC. February 25, 2013. John Morden found this interesting cover story in volume 91, issue 8 of the Chemical and Engineering News. The article titled “Saving Endangered Photographs” by Sarah Evert discusses how technology has uncovered both fraudulent images and how to identify and save the many delicate historic images.
Just click on the icon at left or on the above link to read this fascinating article. (Did you know about 150 different photographic processes have been invented since 1822? I didn’t!)
Toronto Cityscapes
Toronto, February 27, 2013. Our thanks to Ed Warner for announcing the Beach Photo Club’s current show at the Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, 67 Pottery Road in Toronto’s Don Valley. Days and hours are Wednesday to Friday 12 to 4 pm and Saturdays and Sundays an extra half hour, from noon to 4:30 pm.
TORONTO March 24, 2013. Gary Perry is hosting his latest show on Sunday March 24, 2013 at the usual location:
The Toronto Don Valley Hotel at 1250 Eglinton Avenue East.
Enter off Wynford Drive – good parking in the hotel lots.
Admission only $7 – 10 am to 3 pm
My NEX-6
The end of January 2013, when Vistek offered the NEX-6 and kit lens on sale for a great price, I leaped at the chance. Sold out! Oh Well, I left my order up anyway. To my surprise and delight, the camera arrived a week and a half later.
The NEX-6 is nice to use. Compared to my NEX-5, it is much faster in operation, has the flash built-in, and most importantly, it has a superb eye-level viewfinder built-in as well. Less important is the standard hot shoe and wi-fi capability. However, I have found the wi-fi capability of the camera to be very useful for remote shooting and image uploads. In terms of applications, Sony is no Apple by a long shot. The best you can say is that the Sony apps don’t crash… I eventually got the wi-fi apps to work, sort of. Continue reading
Editor David Bridge has issued another edition of the PHSC Newsletter. Click here or on the montage below to view this issue.
From left top: Cover of 12-11, projection of an early micro-image of text, The Stanhope camera, Kodak No. 4 Model B Kodak Panoram (Kodak omits the final “a” in its promotional material for both camera and images). The bottom features a segment of Josef Sudek’s panoram street scene in post war Czechoslovakia taken with a Kodak No 4, Model B (from the AGOs holdings and exhibit of Sudek’s work.
In the issue we announce our February speakers who are modern Tin Type specialists from The Tin Type Studio in Toronto. The Toronto Notes column covers Mark Singer’s review of the talk and show in January by Ottawa’s Professor Lambert and his Magic Lantern. Louise Freyburger writes about AGO’s current Sudek exhibit and its publication Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision edited by AGO Curator Maia-Mari Sutnik. Issue 38-4 of Photographic Canadiana (mailed this week to all members) is reviewed. This nine page issue ends with the Coming Events and Want Ads columns. Enjoy!
VANCOUVER, April 28, 2013. Our associates on the west coast are pleased to announce their spring show this year.
Click the icon at left or here for details. Our friend Siggi Rohde writes the following:
It is time again to plan for our annual ‘Vancouver Camera Show & Swap Meet’ on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at the usual Cameron Centre location in Burnaby, in Metro-Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Continue reading
EVENTS
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Stan White – Poems & Photos
Mise Au Point – sur la photographie Quebecois
