Seriously, people, let’s get serious. Here is a substantial “tiny” tripod with which to stuff someone’s stocking.
Read about it on the Cool Tools website–and then everything else on hold whilst you trawl through that site for the rest of your busy broadcast day.
http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/22750
As well, check out the Glif, linked inside that entry: http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/9723
“124 degrees of awesome.”
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/polaroid-cube-camera/
“Say hello to more adventures.”
We visited the great city of Lisbon last year. Whilst meandering we met a cohort of gentlemen in a park, fixin’ to spark a doob or two. I worked the crowd (neither for a hit, nor was one offered) and we all got along very well. Maybe you’ve seen the group shot, with minha mulher, in the header rotation. (Keep refreshing and you’ll see it. Eventually.)
When we returned we moved on to other pressing issues–like, oh, preparing to retire. I developed the film in April. The first roll looked a tad dense so I made scientific and intuitive adjustments as I worked. Hmm, they looked more than a tad contrasty as well. I realized that I had been using a poorly labeled (by moi) bottle of print developer, rather than developer for film. Talk about your teachable moments: I laid out my technical incompetency for all the students to experience as a destabilizing dose of schadenfreude. These dense, grainy, contrasty negatives are destined for the Sabatier-style printing; stay tuned.
“I saw things on paper that had been around for hundreds of years and a lightbulb went off in my head.”
http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2014/02/19/8800/
Can you believe it? Who among us has not considered something like this, but could you actually go through with it?
Somebody asked if they could visit/tour the home darkroom. There isn’t room for a visitor, much less the class, but it’s important to know that it’s entirely possible to set up at home. This one is neither a custom cave nor a hellhole; economize wherever you can, and spend for quality where it counts.
Here’s everything: books, chemicals, scale, bulbs, film holders, tape.
I process from right to left (not that it matters). Developer, stop, fix, holding bath, all propped up on boxes in order better to see what’s… developing.
Notes.
Some storage, including a tripod case, developer heating pad (and a helmet).
A Beseler 23C. At top height with an 80mm lens, a 35mm negative generates an 8×12″ enlargement.
The enlarger base is an old television cabinet.
Behold: thousands upon thousands of negatives.
One of several print storage archives.
The print washer, propped upon a milk carton, and a drawer of miscellaneous tools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad_NFvmyPvA
Could this be any more of a loving caress? It’s reminiscent of camera videos for gear geeks. It also serves as a reminder that Rabbit (Mr. Hodges) and all of his contemporaries were young men when their reputations were made. If one needs comparisons, look at early pictures of the Stones, or Dylan; Ansel, or Aaron.
Boxes, Sperry and maduro, converted to cameras in twenty minutes; darkroom paper negatives shopped/inverted: the entire spectrum of the history of photography.
This was the place that processed my first rolls from my little Ansco 620. It was near where my Dad worked, on Diversey, and he took his documentation pictures for work there as well. Later I was pleased to see that Skrudland had moved out to Palatine. That location, on Rand Road, is now Flash Imaging Center. For those of us who are currently shooting film without a (dark) room of one’s own, here’s the good news. Imagine sending in a roll a week, and reveling in one’s accumulation after a year.
(Thanks, Jeni.)
This next item is best summed up by their own statement: “a fun toy.” I picture four guys splitting the rent somewhere in Bucktown.
http://petapixel.com/2013/09/03/enfojer-analog-darkroom-printing-digital-smartphone-photos/
Good luck to all teams.
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