Tag Archives: cameras

dog days

Toronto. One logical category for photo collectors is pets. Another is children. The photo at left is likely too modern for most collectors but it illustrates the categories nicely. We all know about the dog days of summer when it … Continue reading

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some Graflex stuff from the rim

Toronto. Ken Metcalf of Graflex History fame down in North Carolina, wrote me recently saying in part, “… Pacific Rim does have a lot of Graflex catalogs and other literature. …”. Be patient, these are large files. A slowish server … Continue reading

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everything old is new again …

Toronto. This old chestnut seems to apply to early digital cameras now. Past president Les Jones dropped me a note the other day (followed by current president Clint Hryhorijiw with same link) about an article he read on the CBC … Continue reading

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toy land, toy land, dear old …

Toronto. … girl and boy land … It’s that season once again. Some folk collect toy cameras. In the days of film, these cameras may or may not have worked. If they did, the result was even worse than a … Continue reading

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gizmos and gadgets …

Toronto. Folks in the US were busy flogging everything that was popular, most ads seem to tell how easy it was to earn more money if you just bought the latest gizmo, gadget, or took ‘free lessons’. In the heyday … Continue reading

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a book for November …

Toronto. .. to paraphrase the Walter Lord tale, “A Night to Remember” about the Titanic – I Read it about sixty or so years go. One of the books in today’s auction is CAMERAS by the late Brian Coe, curator … Continue reading

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by any other name …

Toronto. One of my co-workers commented years ago that a client (he was in the debt consolidation business at the time) had given him a new ‘Leica’ and the accessory lenses. Well, that sparked my interest. My family visited his … Continue reading

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lots and lots to list

Toronto. Our fall estate auction is coming up quickly (this coming Sunday, Nov 24, 2024). In addition to the slide show of lots, Clint has provided a list of items in the auction. Both the photos and list are updated … Continue reading

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if it moves, shoot it ….

Toronto. The old military expression was “If it moves salute it; fi it doesn’t, paint it” In this post I had in mind movie cameras. Our coming auction this Sunday has a wealth of lots – camera, lenses, movie cameras, … Continue reading

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origami and photography

Toronto. You may wonder what on earth the Japanese art of paper folding has to do with our favourite pastime – photography. Glad you asked. Origami takes a flat object like a sheet of paper and in a few folds, … Continue reading

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