This is the question I want to ask you after reading an amusing little post on PetaPixel: 17 Signs That You Were Alive Before the Age of Digital Photography. You can go and read before coming back here. Please, do. In a couple of minutes, I observed that I was able to recognize nearly everything…
To celebrate the International Women’s Day (today on March 8th), I wanted to show how, we photographers moved from seeing women as models and crude ones at that. Here is how Bell & Howell was advertising its slide projectors in 1959. And if you think that this was pretty innocuous, think about the lives of…
photo credit: EvelynGiggles …if the price difference with New is really large enough (don’t forget that in most countries and in Europe importing photo gear from outside requires to pay VAT and a few % of custom duties): Buy New if the difference is small, you’ll also get a manufacturer warranty. …if the selling web…
Not really an electronic brain, the Nikon F still is the preferred camera of many photographers. Or their best memory. YouTube link YouTube link
Here is a Leica M6 indecently stripped. The reality that they are usually content to imagine as naked here is shown in pictures of the compact rangefinder without any clothes, or more precisely without some of the external decorative parts. Source for this little game: PetaPixel. The surprising photographs are by Duncan Meeder – Foto…
Since several weeks, at Sony, rumors are running loose about the situation after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the 11 March 2011. As a matter of fact, it seems that there were several announcements scheduled this second quarter of 2011 and most of them have been pushed to later dates. photo © 2011…
This lovely quote from Ansel Adams, famous American landscape photographer of the XIXth Century,must drive us from being passive in front of the photos. Not taking photos is refusing to simply press the shutter button because we have seen something. Making a photo is a matter of attitude, being constructive in front of all pictures.…
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer famous for his animated photographs which pioneered the observation of animal movement. This was really a photography marvel in a time when video was not an integrated feature of photo cameras. Cassandra C. Jones did a relatively similar job from horse images collected on the Internet (probably with Google…
No doubt about that, you must make sure that your other half will find this information in time for buying the best gift for a photo camera lover: underpant boxers with second-hand vintage photo cameras. This is at GAP, it’s everywhere in the wolrd on the Internet, but also in all the GAP shops, in…
A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link
Just for the pleasure of the eyes:
It seems that NASA found a steady source of minor income by selling all kinds of equipments to fans. Today, this is an impressive Hasselblad camera in full NASA regalia that is on sale on eBay. Price is currently near US$34000.
photo credit: davidgsteadman When buying a photo camera, we often research in order to decide if this is the best camera, if its features will be goo enough, but will it be robust enough? Will it be useful or necessary to purchase a warranty contract extension? Will it fail very soon? When somebody asks me…
It’s been years that I fell in love with the excellent Dark Roasted Blend web site. Today, I found a nice post showing some of the most beautiful vintage photo cameras they could find. Recommended visit if you have a couple of minutes to spend.
Even before Photoshop was available, some photographers tried to improve their photos. Sometimes, it was to clean little blemishes, but it could go to quite significant upgrades: removing somebody form a group portrait (like with chairman Mao, below), putting a better body under the head of VIP, etc. Source: NY Times.
To follow up on a previous post, here are the ugliest photo cameras I could find (with the very active assistance of The Online Photographer, I have to admit):
Christine Berrie is a pencil artist whose work can be astonishing. If you are in vintage cameras, you’ll probably love her vintage camera poster. And you can buy the poster at Etsy.
Michael Zhang has a good set of advice to provide to help us all buy a lot of pro camera gear on a student budget. This is quite attractive because most photo enthusiasts quickly notice that the only limitation to our photo expenses is the money we can invest into it. Let’s admit it, there…
This auction sale is a bit unusual. The camera bag does not look like anything nice, it’s covered with old dirt, but its value would be lowered if cleaned, it’s really nearly unique, it’s not been used a lot, but traveled very far. This is the bag used to store 16mm and 70mm film magazines…