jared’s camera school, lesson #62:
that’s not some kind of large-format handheld camera you’ve never seen before. it’s just a regular camera enclosed in what is nicknamed a “blimp”.
blimps are camera housings used in places that are misty or rainy, dusty or dirty, or on film sets (to muffle the shutter noise; keeps the audio track clean while sound is rolling and the still photographer is shooting production photos).
there are aftermarket units you can purchase (which allow focusing), but many photographers make their own out of pelican cases and pvc pipe (auto-focus lenses only).
the technically perfect reason why to always shoot in raw format. in this photo maybe I or the camera did something horribly wrong with measuring the exposure time, ending up in an highly overexposed photo. but with raw, I could rescue all the lost pixels. in jpeg, all of them would have be gone. Forever.Read more about this here on snpsht.
I’m going to try my hand at water drop macros one of these days. Click here for a gallery.
Kashiwa
Leica with Map Camera original lens hood. LINK
Saturday night follow: a camera Sartorialist.
http://photographernotaterrorist.org/
the stealers of realities (via the|G|™)
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Charles Harbutt - I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972) -
“Photography is not art; it is something totally new in human experience, something people have not been able to do before the last century or so. Photography is not art because the basic impulse of the photographer is diametrically opposed to the basic impulse of the artist at least in one large respect. The artist tries to bring into existence something new that never had concrete existence before. The photographer tries to bring into existence something new that preserves something that already has concrete existence but will cease to exist in just that way in the next moment or day or year. And for Goethe, at least, the imagination for the real was imagination’s highest form. Perhaps photography is simply a higher stage in humanity’s artistic evolution from that first hand-drawn, cave-hidden deer. And critics are known to be dinosaurs.”
After Polaroid, Keeping Instant Photography Alive -
TIME Business
“When the Polaroid film factory in the Dutch town of Enschede shut down in June 2008, it seemed to signal the end for one of the most ingenious and iconic innovations of the 20th century. Almost 60 years after American inventor Edwin H. Land sold the first Model 95 of his new instant-picture camera in Boston in November 1948, the troubled Polaroid Corporation halted its cassette film production for good. Demand was still relatively high — the plant churned out 30 million cassettes in 2007, and 24 million in the first half of 2008 — but the plant had run out of its allocated amount of the chemical components needed to make its famous instant film, and Polaroid’s decision to move to digital meant there was no point in ordering more. The film stocks would last for a little while longer. When they ran out, though, the Polaroid camera, once the world’s most popular with about one billion sold, would be history. But two men attending the factory’s closing ceremony had other ideas. Florian Kaps, an Austrian entrepreneur and Polaroid enthusiast, and André Bosman, until then the engineering manager of the Enschede plant, met by chance on that fateful day. Together, they decided…”
Continue reading this article on TIME
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mfs:
good old days!
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy-l-plate-l-bracket
DIY L-Bracket out of Angle Iron.
Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult by Paul Graham -
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