Niagara School of Imaging
Rick Bell introduced us to the NSI in his talk last last May. The NSI recently announced its 2011 agenda (August 24 – 25). Great courses for the professional and advanced amateur photographer. For more information on the 2011 program go to the NSI web site niagaraschool.com
MEETING Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Wedding Photography
Maggie Habieda-Nowakowski
Ontario College of Art & Design graduate Maggie Habieda-Nowakowski of Fotografia Boutique Inc. is an international award-winnning artist-photographer. Her photographs are treated like masterpiece paintings – gently edited and refined to emphasize the true beauty of the individual. Maggie’s passion is capturing romantic, breath-taking images that tell a person’s story; images that reflect the individual’s personality and style. Continue reading
VALATIE, NY, March 5, 2011. The latest Bryan & Page Ginns Antique Photographica Sale is on. The bidding ends March 5, 2011 Click HERE to go to the Auction #23 calalogue.
Kodachrome slide 1958 – 2N190 transistor
PARSONS, KANSAS, DECEMBER 30, 2010. KODACHROME dead at 75. Word reached us via the Globe and Mail that Kodachrome passed peacefully into history on Thursday. The popular transparency film was bright, contrasty, and slow. It arrived as 16mm movie film in 1935 and the following year as 35mm film. Over its life Kodachrome was the darling of professional colour photographers, amateurs, and vacationing snap-shooters alike. Kodak stopped manufacture in June 2009 and the last Kodachrome processing machine in the world (located at Dwayne’s in Kansas) was turned off at the end of business December 30th. The incredibly complex processing operations make it very unlikely we will ever see Kodachrome processing again.
At ISO 10, it was fond of bright daylight. I took this close-up of a 2N190 transistor while working in Labrador in July, 1958. I used my then new Exakta VXIIa with its Steinheil Auto-Quinon 55mm lens and some extension tubes. While this image is slightly adjusted in Photoshop, the original slide still has the brilliant colours of a half century ago – which cannot be said of its badly faded Anscochrome and Ektachrome contemporaries. To make this image, I shot the transparency and slide holder separately and then merged and scaled the two images in Photoshop ( I took the two shots with a Leitz 65mm Elmar mounted on a Sony NEX-5 camera using a ground glass between the transparency and the Ott-Lite light source).
Bob Lansdale Clicks Again!
Atlanta, Georgia – October 23, 2010
Yes, that camera-carrying photographer, flash in hand has taken a plethora of new photos at the 2010 Daguerreian Society Symposium in Atlanta GA! They are available for you to review and have prints made of the ones you like.
Bob Lansdale, official photographer for the Daguerreian Society, has captured many of us in the act – of participating and enjoying the Symposium in all of its aspects.
Visit the Kodak Gallery (http://tinyurl.com/29zpp4z) to see all the pictures!
(sign in for free to view the Gallery)
PHSC 35th DVD
TORONTO, ONTARIO. September 21, 2010. The Photographic Historical Society of Canada is in its 36th year. As a 35th Anniversary bonus, ALL current members will receive a fully searchable DVD containing all volumes of Photographic Canadiana from 1 to 35 inclusive. This DVD will be included with issue 36-2 of Photographic Canadiana which goes to Canada Post this week.
The DVD also includes all issues of the news sheet inserts and email newsletters up to April 30, 2010, and other publications of the society. If you are not a member, click to here to join now!
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, February 11, 2009. Larry Gubas of Zeiss Historica, the club for Zeiss enthusiasts, has published two books on Zeiss products: A Survey of Zeiss Microscopes 1846 – 1945,
December 2008; soft cover, 8-1/2 x 10-7/8″ (21.5 x 27.5cm), 318 pages well illustrated included 157 pages color illustrations/photos. An Introduction to The Binoculars of Carl Zeiss Jena 1893-1945,
September 2008, second reprint; 6 x 9″, Soft cover, approx. 250 pages, paginated within chapters. Black & White photos, as well as some color. Lots of advertising from the period. Both books can be purchased from Petra Kellers at Camerabooks in Oregon.
Coffee Mill Camera
TOKYO, JAPAN, July – August 2008. In Tokyo, Japan, there is a camera club devoted to making and using unusual cameras. Editor Bob Lansdale has been in contact with Sam Mabuchi of the Japan Hand Made Camera Club which held an exhibit this past summer of the cameras and photographs created by the JHMCC members.
After the exhibit, Mr Mabuchi compiled a digital version of the catalogue which he has graciously allowed us to display. The Coffee Mill Camera at left by Hijikta Kensuke, is shown on page 3 of the catalogue. Click on the Coffee Mill image to view the catalogue slide show. In the slide show, click an image to see it enlarged, and click the left or right side of the larger image to move to the next slide.
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Stan White – Poems & Photos
Mise Au Point – sur la photographie Quebecois
