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Haiku

your friend has left you
memories are all you have
to remember them

Goodbye Kodachrome. So badly reported!

Monday saw a press release from Kodak announcing that the iconic Kodachrome film is to be discontinued.

Ok, it's a sad announcement (some people swear by its colour reproduction and its archival qualities), but I take umbrage at the way in which it has been reported!

If you watch the TV reports or read the news articles, the death of Kodachrome has almost universally been attributed to 'the increase of digital photography'. This is not so.

Judging Framework...

Things that are Uplifting

We went down to Bristol recently for my brother-in-law's wedding (my wife's brother for those who are trying to work it out), and we had a great time - seeing lots of people who we hadn't seen for a while. Our children were the only ones there for the whole day (there were a few present at the ceremony, but not for the meal/party), and it was also nice to have people tell us how well-behaved they were (phew!).

I wonder...

... how many people who are currently bleating about their photographs being misappropriated from flickr are/were quite happy downloading music without paying for it?

Just asking.

Suspicious behaviour...?

As I was travelling home from my Grandad's funeral yesterday, I had to change trains at Stevenage. Now, being past 5 o'clock, the coffee-shop etc. was closed, so I had 15-20 minutes to kill on the platform.

'nuff said...

Are photographers really a threat? from the Guardian (UK Newspaper)

more Retro...

I recently got another camera off of ebay. It's another Polaroid camera, but this time rather retro. It's an Automatic 100, produced between 1963 and 1966 taking 3.25x4.25 inch instant pictures using '100 series' pack film (which Fuji still make, even though Polaroid themselves couldn't continue).

Thanks go out to Option8 for his website describing how to refurbish the camera.

World Pinhole Day

Don't forget World Pinhole Photography day on Sunday - if you don't have a pinhole camera, then why not make one:

• Readymech - 3 designs from Corbis
• Dirkon a camera from Czechoslovakia

tilt/shift goodness

Well, I finally got out for twenty minutes the other night and took some pictures with my large format camera. Firstly, the Manfrotto tripod is lovely and stable - so that's good. I ended up taking two pictures basically - each shot twice, firstly on Instant film (Fuji FP100C in a Polaroid 405 back) and then on Fomapan 100 sheet film.

First 'Polaroid' was a bit marred by the fact I didn't develop it for long enough - it was rather colder than the film likes.