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  • 7 Instant Cameras + Free Film with Every One


    “Oh my good gracious.” “How did you know?” “Eeeeeek!”

    That’s just the kinds of things you should get used to hearing if you put any instant cameras under the tree this year.

    To make sure your lucky giftees can start shooting on Christmas morning, we’re giving you (and untimately them) a free pack of film with every instant camera in our shop. TODAY ONLY!

    So hurry up and browse our instant cams below and pick the perfect one for each of your lucky pals. The films on us.

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  • Lomography adds Lomochrome Turquoise film to lineup

    Back in January 2013, Lomography announced that it would be releasing a color negative film called Lomochrome Purple, which was based on Kodak’s Aerochrome. With that film, photographers could capture images with shifted colors skewed towards the presence of purple. Today the company has made a follow-up announcement, introducing the Lomochrome Turquoise XR 100-400. Read more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Ferrania to restart film production in still and movie formats

    Italian film and camera brand Ferrania is set to come back to life after a Kickstarter fundraising project reached its target with over two weeks left to run. A company called FILM Ferrania will use the money raised to re-commission and redesign existing machinery from closed sections of the Ferrania factory to begin the manufacture of film. Initial production will be for 35mm and 120 roll formats for stills, and Super 8 and 16mm movie film. Learn more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Epson launches Perfection V850 and V800 multi-format film scanners

    Epson has announced a pair of high-end flatbed scanners that are capable of digitizing film in sizes of up to 10x8in. Replacing the Epson Perfection V750 and V700, which were introduced in February 2006, the Epson Perfection V850 and V800 will feature the same specification as the previous models, but will benefit from faster start-up and lower power consumption. Read more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Extreme X-Class Solar Flare Is Erasing Digital & Film Photos Worldwide

    This mornings Solar flare corruption of my photography library

    In a stunning event shocking NASA, the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency the Sun flexed its power last night with an unprecedented X-Class solar flare (Update: some astrophysicists are contending it’s the first detected Z-Class solar flare). Unlike extreme solar events like the Carrington Event this solar storm has erased film and digital photos world-wide. Prints, film negatives and digital files have shockingly been affected equally being erased into oblivion. Neil deGrasse Tyson was quoted as saying,

    iPhone Image Library Corrupted by Solar Flare

    “The sun once again has humbled us with its power. With a single awe inspiring brush stroke of  projected radiation, the Sun has erased our visual history leaving us to remember moments of times past with only our heart and minds.”

    Completely confused this morning seeing blank sheets of paper where my favorite family photos and wall prints once existed I rushed to my computer and phone to see the state of my digital libraries. Everything was gone. In a fit of amazement and cursing I rushed to check my slides and negatives from the 90′s and they too are now history being completely blank. In hindsight I now wish I savored the moments I photographed to better remember them verses my fuzzy memory of these moments as seen through a small view finder. Now that this fast moving storm of radiation has passed new photos are now again possible. Even though I am now again able to take photos seeing the fragility of our imaging technologies it begs the questions…

    Is humanity’s creativity, existence & legacy what we see, feel, or leave behind?

     

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    Extreme X-Class Solar Flare Is Erasing Digital & Film Photos Worldwide

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  • Return of Film: Snowy Sunrise at Gates of the Valley

    It’s been 10 years since I last took photographs with film. My backing a pinhole camera Kickstarter project, the Ondu camera, is what swayed me to take another stab at shooting film. The camera I chose from the project is a 6×12 medium format pinhole camera. It has an aperture equivalent to f/133 and a focal length of roughly 40mm (in 35mm camera terms).  I’ve never used a pinhole camera so it’s been quite an exciting exploration of a very primitive form of photography. No view finder, no glass lens, no CF cards, no histogram and being an extended piece of the camera as the human shutter (I open and close it) is a sure fire way to kick oneself into a new way of thinking and seeing.

    Even with my digital camera I’ve been in a “slow photography” mode. Ironic considering I have been shooting a lot of time-lapse work. While my camera is running capturing a time-lapse I usually have a second camera in the wings where I very selectively take a dozen or so photos. To take that approach to another extreme I picked up the pinhole camera to capture a few frames here and there. I get 6 photos per roll with this camera so depending on the lighting conditions I’ll run through a roll quickly during the day or use the same roll of film over a few night shoots.

    The photo above of a very foggy and snowy view of Gates of the Valley in Yosemite National Park was taken this past March. This brief window in the fog lasted but a minute. This was one instance when I was in the right place at the right time. Expect to see a few more pinhole photos in the future. As I venture around in the coming months we’ll see what other “right place at the right time” photos come about.

     

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  • Hollywood studios strike deal to keep Kodak movie film in production

    A group of big name Hollywood directors has nudged studio executives into talks with Kodak, negotiating a deal that would keep the company’s movie film in production. With support from the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and J.J. Abrams, the deal would see studios commit to buying a certain amount of film from Kodak for the next few years. Read more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Impossible adds B&W ‘Hard Color’ Limited-edition Instant Film

    Instant-print maker Impossible has added a new line to its ‘special’ and ‘limited’ editions with a 600-type film that features a colored frame surrounding the image area. Joining a line of tinted emulsions and animal-skin-printed frames, B&W 600 Hard Color features a warm high-contrast emulsion with frame surrounds in eight different vivid colors. Read more

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  • Finding Vivian Maier – Der Film

    Was ist interessanter: Die Fotos von Vivian Maier oder ihr geheimnisvolles Leben? Für einige Personen des Dokumentarfilms „Finding Vivian Maier“ ist es ganz klar die Geschichte dieser exzentrischen Frau, die als Kindermädchen arbeitete und ganz nebenbei und heimlich großartige Bilder machte.

    John Maloof, Regisseur des Films und „Entdecker“ Vivian Maiers fand ihre Negative bei einer Auktion. Eigentlich auf der Suche nach historischen Aufnahmen des Stadtviertels, enttäuschten ihn die Aufnahmen zunächst. Sie zeigten Straßenszenen Chicagos aus den 50ern und 60ern, Portraits von Menschen. Doch er erkannte bald, dass er da auf etwas gestoßen war, was mehr als nur historischen Wert besaß.

    Eine schöne Frau steht im Mittelpunkt einer Straßenszene und sieht nach rechts.

    Eine Nachtaufnahme. Zwei Männer schleppen einen scheinbar Betrunkenen zwischen sich über die Straße.

    Die Aufnahmen waren spannend, zeigten die Menschen auf eine besondere, gefühlvolle Weise. Einzig mit dem Namen der Fotografin und dieser Kiste voller Negative machte sich Maloof auf die Suche nach der Frau, die bei Google damals noch keinen einzigen Treffer ergab.

    Im Dokumentarfilm begeben sich Maloof und sein Kollege Charlie Siskel auf Spurensuche. Menschen, die mit dem Kindermädchen in Kontakt standen, werden interviewt und berichten ausführlich über die Stärken, Schwächen und Exzentriken dieser mysteriösen Frau. Einig sind sich alle vor allem in einem: Warum hat sie nie gezeigt, was sie da macht? Keiner kannte ihre Bilder, niemandem hatte sie ihre Arbeiten gezeigt.

    Plakat: Finding Vivian Maier

    So kamen sie erst nach ihrem Tod ans Licht. Und mit ihnen der Ruhm, Ausstellungen und Veröffentlichungen. Hätte Vivian Maier das gewollt? Auch diese Frage wird in der Dokumentation aufgegriffen und zum Teil beantwortet. Ob sie einen so privaten Film über sich selbst gewollt hätte, bezweifle ich stark, aber ja, ich habe ihn mit Faszination gesehen. Trotzdem.

    Wir alle bestimmen, was die Welt über uns erfährt. Doch ob wir wollen oder nicht – am Ende müssen wir Farbe bekennen. Es ist gut möglich, dass wir nichts über Vivian Maiers Leben und ihre Fotos wissen würden, wenn es nach ihr gegangen wäre. Sie entschied sich für eine heimliche Existenz und versteckte ihre Kunst, solange sie lebte. Doch wer seine Kunst verbirgt, vernichtet sie eben nicht. Vivian Maier bewahrte ihr Werk auf und überließ dessen Schicksal anderen.
    – Charlie Siskel, Regisseur

    Der Film ist abgesehen von diesem moralischen Konflikt sehr empfehlenswert. 84 Minuten mit deutschen Untertiteln. Ich habe gespannt die Geschichte um Vivian Maier verfolgt, habe mitgerätselt, war manchmal erstaunt, manchmal schockiert. Zudem bekommt man neben den besten Fotografien Maiers auch noch viele ihrer eigenen Filmaufnahmen zu sehen.

    Der Film „Finding Vivian Maier“ kommt am 26. Juni 2014 in die deutschen Kinos.


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  • Found film: Keep a lookout for photographic treasures

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    The next time you’re in a thrift shop or antique store, keep a lookout for photographic treasures. While old cameras are always eye-catching, the images captured with those cameras are often more intriguing as Mike Ames and Derek Wong discovered. Ames came across some tins of developed Kodak Panatomic film and Wong bought a roll of developed Kodak Super XX film. They both discovered an unexpected look back at history. Learn more

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