These days when something is announced that has to do with film, its usually the discontinuation of an emulsion or beloved type of film. Today is different: Bergger has announced a new type of film and its even going to be available in sheets too! Large format Yeah! I see you can order 4×5, 5×7 and 8×10 sheets which are in stock now. Their site shows a cost of 25 sheets of 8×10 at $176 which works out to about $7Read more
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Ihagee Exakta VXIIa Experiences
Maybe about a year ago Matt at Glass Key Photo took a really nice looking camera off the shelf to show me something. He said he really loved all the things that designers used to build into cameras. The Ihagee Exakta he showed me had interchangeable finders for example – his had a waist level finder fitted and he marveled at how it had even a pop up magnifier. Build quality was another thing he was impressed with and he went onRead more
133MP 60fps 8k Sensor for cinema broadcasting – wow!
Recently I found a white paper on a very large CMOS sensor for use with broadcast cinema which was developed by Forza Silicon in California…. You can download or ready their paper on their site here : 133Mpixel 60fps CMOS Image Sensor with 32-Column Shared High-Speed Column-Parallel SAR ADCs Here’s and extract of the intro: “…In this paper, a 133Mpixel sensor that can be operated at 60fps to realize a full-resolution 8K single-chip camera is described. To achieve both high speed and suitableRead more
New rules on small drones: What you need to know – LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drone-rules-20160829-snap-htmlstory.html I don’t actually own a drone and I have mixed feelings about getting one. Sometimes I think it would be really great to have the overhead perspective available. But it seems nearly every week I read about some person doing something selfish and reckless with their drones and I don’t want to follow the siren’s call and get seduced by that tech and do something silly or dangerous with it. But no doubt about it, they are very coolRead more
Get The F*ck To Work · DEDPXL
http://dedpxl.com/get-the-fck-to-work/ Great post here by Zack Arias with some quotes on inspiration and a little bit of self reflection too. This all might ring true to home for of you artists out there. The David Bowie video he links to is a must watch!Read more
Imogen Cunningham’s Sensual Photography | A R T L▼R K
Imogen Cunningham has been a favorite photographer of mine for her floral photography and environmental portraits of her children. I enjoyed reading this post about her. I did not know for example that she went to a technical high school in Dresden Germany, nor that she first opened a portrait studio in Seattle in 1910 which was really quite early still for photography in the west coast. She and Anne Brigman, another one of my idol’s were photographing in theRead more
The Human eye is so sensitive, it can detect a single photon
Wow! Digital sensors and cameras still have a long way to go before they can replicate human vision. Here’s an article I read in the Los Angeles Times that covers the scientific study on the senstivity of the human eye which was reporting on an article called “Direct Detection of a Single Photon by Humans” by Tinsley et al, in Nature Communications. In case you are like me and are interested in reading more about about the experiment, the Zaviri lab has theRead more
This Odd House Is a Shrine to Early Photography
This Odd House Is a Shrine to Early Photography http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/odd-early-photography-shrine-portugal-casa-relvas Interesting read about an eclectic 19th century photographer in Portugal, named Carlos Relvas, who built his house to be a perfect studio upstairs with lots of windows for natural light and darkroom downstairs. The creators project blog post is a great summary but there’s more information on the Case Estudio website itself though its a bit hard to navigate.Read more
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Harvard Business Review article on Kodak The first digital camera was invented at Kodak. Kodak invested big money into commercial digital cameras early on, and they even bought some on-line photo sharing businesses. So why if they had invested significantly into technology, why did they still fail to jump the gap when it came? This article goes into a lot of detail but clearly a lot of big companies failed to see that the internet could reach directly toRead more
ACLU Releases List of Rights of Photographers
ACLU Releases List of Rights of Photographers You have broad rights to photograph in public. Confrontation with citizens and authorities when you are photographing has become more frequent since 9/11. Police have been particularly sensitive to being filmed or photographed after Ferguson et al. It’s a good idea to become familiar with laws and your rights so you can act professionally if confronted and hopefully defuse the situation. The ACLU has put together a good list and review here:Read more
Reblog: “5 Japanese Photographers you need to know”
I’m reblogging this post on Japanese Photographers since I thought it was worthy of attention. To save time the 5 photographer’s in their list are below. If you click on the name it will take you to a Pinterest image search of that photographer so you can see more images from each photographer on the list. Be advised many are NSFW! Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012) Eikoh Hosoe (1933-) Ihei Kimura (1901-1974) Daido Moriyama (1938-) Nobuyoshi Araki (1940-) Read more
The Rescued Film Project – and copyright questions
The Rescued Film project has been circulating the blogs lately since they are trying to raise funds to pay for developing and scanning costs for a bunch of film from an unknown photographer. In one way its kind of cool to open up another view into history by bringing these photos back but I do question the motives of the people behind this project. The strong copyrights claims and prominent bids to sell prints on their main page seem toRead more