International Women’s Day

slide projector

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 [...]

Buy used photo gear, if…

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 [...]

Nikon F

Not really an electronic brain, the Nikon F still is the preferred camera of many photographers. Or their best memory. YouTube link YouTube link

Photographer porn

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 [...]

Sony: Delayed or not delayed?

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 [...]

Don’t take photos, make photos

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. [...]

A new Muybridge

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 [...]

Underpants: A gift for the camera lover

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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 Soviet Photoshop

russian_photoshop

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

Full titanium Leica M9

Just for the pleasure of the eyes:

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