Old Book & Paper Show 2011

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Robert

Steven Evans sends us a reminder that he will have his vintage images at the Old Book & Paper show this Sunday, March 27th. You can drop in on the Wootten show at the Thornhill Community centre (see my March 23rd post above) and this show too! Click on the icon at the left for details.

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Stockholms Auktionsverk

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Robert

Item from Swedish auction

We received word that the Swedish “Stockholms Auktionsverk” is holding an auction of photographica material on April 4, 2011. Viewing is April 1 – 3. Click the stereo viewer image at left to visit their online catalogue.

 

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Spring Auction Sunday April 3, 2011

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Robert

 

This Sunday, we are once again hosting our popular auction at the Canadian Legion, Branch 344, 1395 Lake Shore Bl West, Toronto

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to buy and sell photographic items. Clint, John, Doug, and other PHSC volunteers will be there to present another terrific auction.

Please read the buyer/seller rules on acceptable goods for auction.
Everyone is welcome! Click here for poster and here for buyer/seller rules.

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Making Kodak Film

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Robert

Making Kodak Film

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. November 7, 2010. Do you have fond memories of Kodak film? Verichrome, Super-XX, Tri-X, Kodachrome, Ektachrome and all those other marvellous and magical bits of plastic that recorded your life? Then you will want a copy of Robert Shanebrook’s “Making Kodak Film” an illustrated story of the state-of-art photographic film manufacturing process in the Kodak facilities.

Mr Shanebrook had first hand experience in the manufacture of Kodak film with 35 years at the Eastman Kodak company before retiring in 2003. The book draws on his personal experience plus the expertise of some ninety others including Kodak retirees, current Kodak experts, and others in the film industry. In preparing the book he had full access to Kodak Park in Rochester and the people responsible for manufacturing this most famous line of photographic films. Click the book icon to visit the author’s web site.

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Photo Educators’ Forum

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Robert

Photo Educators' Forum

OAKVILLE, May 6, 7 2011. 16th Annual Conference for Photography and Imaging Educators. Visit the Photoeducators.ca web site for registration information, program details, and the schedule of events.

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Winter and Spring 2011 Shows Announced

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Robert

TORONTO, March 27, 2011. First Wootten show of 2011. Thornhill Community Centre, John and Bayview.

TORONTO, Sunday, April 3, 2011. PHSC Auction. For members and visitors – bring your goodies for auction. Click HERE for more details.

MONTREAL, April 10th, 2011. Sol Hadef’s first 2011 Montreal show. Click HERE to visit his web site for details.

TORONTO, May 15, 2011. The Big One! The PHSC Spring Fair at the usual location in the Soccer Centre.

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Niagara School of Imaging

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Robert

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

 

 

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MAGGIE HABIEDA-NOWAKOWSKI

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Robert

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 →

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Ginns Photographica Sale

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Robert

Auction March 2011 - lot 003b

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.

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Kodachrome. Dead at 75

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Robert

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).

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