Re: How Independent Are We, Really?
Great, great.......I have had, for a couple of years, since I made it a 16'' X 20'' ( A3 ) format camera which takes a single dark slide holder (also home made) for bromide paper negatives. Took two years to make. I also decided to prove that I could make a detachable paper roll holder. The lens is two dirt cheap one diopter spectacle meniscus lenses taped together giving a 500mm focal length. Had to make a heavy tripod to hold this thing., too. Setting it up at my window, one day, the whole caboodle nearly collapsed on me. A frightening experience as the camera and tripod weighs several Kg. Crushed by my own technology ! ! ? ? Have not played with it since then. Fishing is a much safer way of relaxing. Anyone know anything about fishing ? (post factory, of course). I seem to remember there is a very good book, ''How to Photograph Your Own Fish.''. Look on Azamon. Yes, I mean Azamon. If you dont laugh, you cry. Right? Gees ! ! I used to think this was a serious List............. Happy days to all. Quirky John- Photographist - London - UK. ................................................................................... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loris Medici" <mail@loris.medici.name> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:38 AM Subject: RE: How Independent Are We, Really? Ho-ho! Please don't strikethrough home made pinhole cameras... (For instance, I have a self-made 15x30cm curved plane panoramic pinhole camera - which still waits its first use since when I finished it on May; shame on me!) There are also ways to make your own lens and camera (proper!); see the book "Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes" by Alan Greene. (http://tinyurl.com/2ez7fm) Yes, you still need something light sensitive - which most probably would be factory produced - but there are people out there doing research (and/or sharing previously done research, along with their personal experience) about DIY light sensitive silver emulsions... (And we have Dageurreotype, Calotype, Wet-Plate Collodion, Dry-Plate...) Regards, Loris. -----Original Message----- From: John Grocott [mailto:john.grocott403@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:10 AM To: The List Subject: How Independent Are We, Really? Judy's and Don's points taken, but ''alternative'' photo processes could certainly not exist without the good old lens and camera, and how much is owed to the research and development done by individuals and exploited by vast companies in that basic field of photography? It's commercial Life. The advent of the domestic box brownie and the like. The roll film and then the Oscar Barnac 35mm camera using motion picture film. We have always been ''at the mercy'' of the factory setup. The production of B/W bromide paper established a normality of print processing and a ''mainstream'' mode of photography. A massive dependence! ! Now we seem to feel that present technology is a form of control over these past accepted ways of making pictures. I do feel that most strongly when I have to discard a bunch of electronic garbage because it cannot be viably repaired. Same with cameras, altho' only recently did I buy one and its still working tho' its almost obsolete and the damned thing needs batteries which the Nikon FM 2 never did. But its great to have an easily captured digital record of the kids on holiday. They are certainly not ''alternative''. As Seymour Krim once remarked, ''Use what you've got and use what you aint got, too. Oh, well. Lets struggle on with the F / Art. That's where the cash is. Hehehehe! Quirky John- Photographist - London - UK.
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