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T h e P H S C E - M A I L Vo lume 12-10 , Supp lement to Photograph ic Canad iana , Janua ry 2013 The Photograph ic H i s to r i ca l Soc ie ty o f Canada
PHSC Monthly Meetingsare held on the third Wednesday from September to June in the Gold Room, of Memorial Hall in the basement of the North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., North York, Ontario. The meeting officially begins at 8:00 p.m. but is preceded by a Buy & Sell and social gathering from 7:00 p.m. onwards. For information contact the PHSC or Program Chairman Scott Rickard at [email protected]
Programming Schedule:
January 16, 2013-Prof. Lindsay Lambert and his glo-rious stereopticon.
February 20, 2013 -The Tintype Studio revisits an historical photographic tradition.
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LINDSAY LAMBERT of Ottawa, Ontario has pre-sented magic lantern shows for many years now using an authentic magic lantern. Most of the slides used are original lantern slides including special animated slides, hand coloured slides and photographs.
His Russian iron and brass lantern was known as the "Iron Duke" and was made by the London firm of Butcher & Sons around the turn of 1900. Originally illuminated by a three-wick oil-burner, the light source was subsequently replaced with a limelight jet, and finally a 100-watt halogen lamp equipped with heat-absorbing glass.
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Our December 2012 Meeting
The December meeting is always different from the rest as there is no specific speaker but a show and tell is offered as a treat for the assembled audience. There are also special goodies to eat, this year supplied by Doug Napier’s partner. Also a silent auction was held so it was a busy night.
First up was editor Bob L a n s d a l e showing the subject of a recent article in Photographic Canadiana. He showed not 1 but 2 versions of the Hicro camera, which
was one of the early cameras to make colour pictures. It used 2 black and white plates plus one film with combined coloured filters to produce colour separation neg-atives. It used a complicated inner mechanism to move the reflective mirror in and out of the image source. The first camera was com-plete but the second (larger) cam-era had the internal mechanism removed so it could be used as a normal camera. Final pictures were coloured but fuzzy. He is still looking for the larger 5 by 7 ver-sion. It was only manufactured for 2 years (1915-1917) because it was replaced by the single-plate tri-pack which could be used in any camera and because America entered World War 1 suspending production for the war effort.
The second presenter was Lorne Shields who showed two bicycle related photos. The first was an image of an Auto Dicycle. There are extra wheels on the side that propel it. It was thought that there were no images of it but now there are 3 known photo-graphs. It was taken in 1880. The interesting thing about it is that it
was propelled by the arms using a gear and sprocket mechanism to move the wheels. It looked like a tricycle.
The second picture showed the front of Planet Bicycle Company at 69 Queen Street in Toronto which was bought out by CCM and the building then housed McBride Cycle. The picture was made in 1910.
Next was Stan White who out of his magic box kept pull-ing samples from his collec-tion of chil-dren’s camer-as. Most did not take pic-tures but all made noise, some even said
phrases and had LCD screens and flashing lights. He picked them up at thrift stores for about $5.00 each. Some took pictures both film and digital. They were amus-ing to look at but could be annoy-ing after a while when the sound would not stop. Some even had two viewfinders so the child would not have to close one eye. Most had locks so the child could not get to the batteries or film. There were even Polaroid portrait cam-eras and video cameras. All were almost indestructible.
Fred Warner presented an Exacta pen which was given as a freebie. He showed the newest digital camera from Olympus, the Pen EPL5 that has a 16 megapixel
sensor. The viewing screen is moveable to take pictures at various angles. It has inter-c h a n g e a b l e lenses and is equipped with a Panasonic 3
to 1 pocket zoom lens. It takes nice pictures and works better than most point and shoot cameras.
Clint Hryhorijiw followed with his newest antique photographs. He was searching through eBay and the seller, located in England, had a Notman photograph as well as Canadian Military photos. The description was vague but Clint was intrigued. He bought the pho-tograph of a group of soldiers made in the studio with fake snow with the RMC logo on them, which could be Royal Military College in Kingston. There also was an indi-vidual portrait of one of the five men. At the same time another photograph popped up on eBay of the very same group of soldiers but it was an oval plus an individ-ual portrait of a different member of the group. This seller was from Nova Scotia. Clint e-mailed both sellers after he received the prints asking about their provenance. In both cases they got them from pickers so there was no informa-tion. There was only the name of one of the soldiers and he was CSM Coryell.
More research will need to be done with maybe an article for our magazine.
Toronto Notes
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See complete reviews on PHSC web site at WWW.PHSC.CA
Toronto Notes continued... M a n u e l
Nunes showed how he made a 35mm slide copier using a digital camera. He wanted to copy 2 1/4 slides so he used a drink c o n t a i n e r attached to a
52 mm filter ring and the Nikkor 55mm f3.5. He next used the wood from a tangerine box to make the slide holder and used older lenses, which are non-auto focus. These were prototypes which he hopes to modify.
Bob Wilson demonstrated a special photo album that you didn’t have to turn the pages. He showed regular photo albums that were in book form and in an accor-dion array that you could display on a counter. The unusual one was a wooden box that had the cards mounted in wooden frames and when you cranked the handle the pictures were revealed one-at-a-time until you saw all of them. It was a bit finicky to use but once started the cards moved as if a part of a slide show.
Bob Carter showed opera glasses that fold down into a very thin package that you can carry in any pocket. Even the han-dle folds. It has no markings on
it other than a 5-armed star and is about 2-power resolution.
Ed Warner presented a Pentax mirror-less digital camera that has 16 mega-pixels. It can store raw and jpeg images, has a 12000 ISO, can make HD movies,
does in camera lens correction, and uses all Pentax autofocus lenses. It is small enough to carry in your pocket and uses both a large screen and a large sensor so the crop factor is only 1 1/2 times. It is easy to use in manual mode and has many other features.
Bob Lansdale gave back-ground information about the arti-cle in the December Photographic Canadiana about Brownell and grandson Frank Mehlenbacher. He first visited Mr. Mehlenbacher’s collection to help the editor of the Graflex Quarterly who was doing a story on a Graphic camera and Bob volunteered to take the pic-tures for the article. He was blown away by the amount and scope of
the collection. Bob found out that Brownell was a Canadian who went to the States and made cam-eras for George Eastman. Bob was reluctant to tell the story of the collection because it might lead to a robbery. A year later Bob saw Mr. Mehlenbacher at PhotoHistory and he said the story could be run. It took a while for Bob to schedule the story, which was complicated by the fact that Mr. Mehlenbacher did not have a com-puter for quick e-mail of proofs. In November on his way back from Baltimore he stopped at Mehlenbacher’s house to drop off the proofs. Corrections were sent via a friend’s computer and that worked out OK. Bob had a dead-line to meet and delays at the printer caused anxious moments. A colour centerfold proved bother-some when the colour was wrong in the first proof and too dark in the second proof. It finally printed OK and then because of a high work-load at the printer, another firm assembled it in parts. The maga-zine finally was delivered. Bob decided to deliver copies of the completed magazine to Mr. Mehlenbacher in person so after two years all were happy.
It was a nice year-end to 2012.
Bob Carter
Manuel Nunes
Ed Warner
Bob Wilson
Happy participants in the traditional PHSC gift exchange
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Athough The War of 1812 was long over before the invention of photography, images do exist of veterans of this conflict. Often these survivors are seen at the commemorative events held in the ensuing years, marking what the citizens of this young country held as an important victory.
The War of 1812 and Photography by R. Lansdale
(left) From the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum, we have a copy of a photo of James Fortier (photographer unknown), a veteran who fought under General Brock at the capture of Detroit in 1812. Fortier is shown wearing a medal for his participation in this event. In later action he was take prisoner for 12 months. Eventually Fortier was employed as the 2nd lighthouse keeper for Port Colborne, from where he lamented his poor salary and lack of a government-provided home in letters to officials in Toronto.
James Richardson, who lost his left arm in the 1814 raid on Oswego, NY. After the war he entered service with the Methodist Episcopal Church, eventually becoming its Bishop in Upper Canada. Photo by Eli J. Palmer (see Photographic Canadiana Vol. 36 No. 4, p. 17.)
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War of 1812 Veterans at the 1871 Brock's Monument Picnic (photographer unknown): This image from the Niagara Historical Society & Museum shows a group in front of the monument to General Isaac Brock, who was killed during the Battle of Queenston Heights. The American invasion of this area was even-tually repelled by the British. The original monument was erected in 1820, but was destroyed in 1840, allegedly by Benjamin Lett, a Fenian sympathizer who had marched with William Lyon Mackenzie. The monument shown was built in 1853 to a design by Toronto architect William Thomas.
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The veterans were feted at every anniversary of the war and had their pictures taken for posterity. Few individual portraits are noted but their stories are preserved in family histories. Warriors of the Six Nations were arranged as souvenir cards.
We draw your attention to a recently published book "The Last Muster" ISBN 978-1-60635-055-3, by Maureen Taylor who delved even further back to the Revolutionary War generation to include pictures and biographies of 75 veterans, Loyalists, Native Americans, African
Americans, children and those who witnessed battles and aided soldiers. Included is the story and photograph of Nikonah who supported the British cause (illustrated) and whose tribe moved to Canada after the war. A small group of Tutelo Indians still live near Brantford, Ontario.
Would that someone would initiate the assembling of Canadian veterans of the War of 1812. It's a good research project. Maybe someone has started already!
Ten stalwart survivors of the War of 1812 photographed on the lawn of Sheriff Jarvis, Rosedale, Toronto on October 23, 1861 almost 50 years after the war commenced. Names left to right are: Col. Duggan, Jos. Dennis, Rev. Geo. Ryerson, J. Woodall, Wm. Roe, Jas. Ross, Jacob Snider, Col. Bridgford, Dr. Jas. H. Richardson, Geo. Ridout.
THE WAR OF 1812 AND PHOTOGRAPHY continued
Not to be forgotten were the many Six Nations warriors who sided with the British in the War of 1812. Here three surviving members were photographed in a patriotic setting in a photographic gallery in July of 1882 – some 70 years after the start of the war.
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The story about collector Frank Mehlenbacher of Rochester in our latest issue of Photographic Canadiana needs to have a sec-ond look. After publication, Frank indicated that he was sure the "engraving camera," as cutlined on page 12, was not so. The large size and construction with three chambers certainly indicated that it would fit into the category of engraving camera.
Mehlenbacher has it fitted up with a #3A Ross Portrait lens that would seem to fit the part of a por-trait camera. He has an extra extension bed to rack the bellows out even further that would make it into an even bigger monster.
A small label on the front of the camera indicates it was made by E & HT ANTHONY so I decided to GOOGLE for some infomation. An Anthony catalogue of 1892 showed up and I was able to see exactly what this camera was used for.
The camera is listed as the Climax Enlarging, Reducing and Copying Camera which was avail-able in eight different sizes from 6½ x 8½ to 20 x 24 inches. Prices at the time ranged from $30.00 to $110.00.
"Directions for Use" were given at the bottom of the page. To copy a negative it is affixed to the open-ing at the front of the camera by holding clips. A lens is mounted to the first partition (inside the cam-era) and the bellows pulled out far enough to render an enlarged
image. A service door on the side of the compartment enables the pho-tographer to set the lens settings.
Thus a positive could be made from which a duplicate negative was produced by contact. Other systems saw a contact positive first made from the original nega-tive onto carbon tissue. Then an
enlarged negative was made via the copy camera to the size desired for printing of final prints.
An advertisement also indi-cates that this copy camera could be used to make lantern slides/transparencies which were in demand (by reduction of the origi-nal negative).
This is not to say that a gallery would or could not use this cam-era to take portraits. If a photogra-pher needed a large portrait-head
negative to begin with or had a large group to photograph, he could simply equip it with a por-trait lens, make sure that the cam-era was light-tight and hope for the best.
So it seems that collector Frank Mehlenbacher has one of the largest of Anthony's copy cameras to make his fantastic col-lection even more commendable.
If you haven't seen this exclu-sive story, better join the PHSC today and get your own copy of the journal. There's more good stories to come!
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These recently acquired cartes de visite bear the backstamp of Miss Lockwood of Spark Street in Ottawa. Hand coloured photos are a rarity and by a women photog-rapher at that.
It brings forward a family that was long in the photographic trade. According to the Biographical Index of Daguerreotypists in Canada by Graham W. Garrett, Joseph A. Lockwood was active in 1851 thoughout Carleton and Lanark counties with a daguerre-ian saloon in partnership with George Martin. The Ottawa Citizen commented: "This house-on-wheels was built expressly for the daguerrean art, among which is a likeness of the celebrated Jenny Lind and of the great temperance orator John B. Gough."
The partnership dissolved on3 December 1851 and shortly after Lockwood erected a frame studio and home in Ottawa on property leased from Sir Henry Egan. Between 1854-59 he advertised daguerreotypes, melainotypes and ambrotypes and was a dealer in photographic supplies.
When Lockwood died of con-sumption in 1859 his wife Melinda and daughters Alvira and Maria took over running the business.
In a newspaper account Alvira said she "got to understand how to take pictures at the age of seven" while helping her father in his studio. She also claimed that "At fifteen (1863) I was a full-fledged Photographer," the year she began to advertise her own studio. From 1872-1875 she was located over Scott's Confectionery (15) Spark Street as is marked on
these two cartes. After 1883 she listed her occupation as an "art-ist." She died in Ottawa in April 5, 1925.
Sister Maria was also taught the daguerreotype process at a young age. She worked in the family stu-dio until 1873 after which she began her own photography stu-dio in Almonte, Ontario. On selling her studio in 1881 she became an itinerant photographer in several U.S. cities including Chicago and Lisbon for the next decade. She died in Ogsdensburg NY in 1930.
Clint's Curio Corner...by Clint Hryhorijiw
craigcamera.com Resumes Service
On the death of John Craig in February 2011, his web site was placed in limbo. Joyce Craig, his widow, has announced she is now taking orders again.
"I am reopening craigcamera.com on a limited basis. I will take orders for items that are on the website, with the exception of pro-jection lamps. Please be patient with me; John refused to show me how things were filed and I am just beginning to figure it out. E-mail to [email protected]."
Recent Photo CanadianaKen Bowes writes: "On
receiving my latest Photographic Canadiana, I enjoyed the story on page 14 about a custom built teak-bodied Graflex with red leather details.
"If the name Atterbury is cor-rect, the gentleman was'General Wallace W. Atterbury,' who became President of The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1925, after serving as their Vice President / Operations. He pre-ferred to be called 'General' as a result of his apparent meritori-
ous service in organizing mili-tary transport services for the allies in Europe in the First World War. That merit was sufficient to win him the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal, and citations from six other countries. More about him is to be found in 'Invisible Giants,' by Herbert H. Harwood Jr."
HELP FOR JOHN KRUGJohn Krug of Ottawa needs help in a search of photo suppliers W.A. Lyon (father) and Wm. Lyon (son). Send info to: [email protected]
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Historic New Acquisition at Eastman House
by Lisa Kribs-Lapierre
The object above is the Eastman Kodak Company Tactical Camera. Designed in 1989, this was donated to us (George Eastman House) by Exelis Inc. in Rochester, NY.
This piece is most notable for being the earliest extant digital single-lens reflex camera. Eastman Kodak produced its first megapixel imaging sensor in the mid–1980s.
James McGarvey, a company engineer, designed and built the imaging firmware and storage system for the M1 sensor, which was installed in a Canon F1 film camera, making it the world’s first digital single-lens reflex camera. Known as the Electro-Optic (E-O) Camera, it was built for the U.S. government in 1988 for covert use. The Tactical Camera evolved from the E-O project the next year and was a more robust sys-tem used to demonstrate the company’s digital tech-nology to potential industrial customers.
Our Technology Curator Todd Gustavson on the accquisition, “The Tactical Camera may well be the most important object acquired during my 24 years at
Eastman House. There is nothing like it in the collec-tion. Not only is it the oldest digital camera in the col-lection, but more importantly, it is one of only two ever made, and it is from these models that all digital cameras were derived.”
Other News from George Eastman House
Physautotypes: From Feb. 4, 2013 through Feb. 6, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at George Eastman House
This amazing process from the dawn of photogra-phy is based on the work of Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre. No original examples exist, but Daguerre included the formula and instructions in his 1839 daguerreotype manual. The finished plate resembles a daguerreotype, but doesn’t require the use of dangerous chemicals: only rosin, alcohol, and mineral spirits.
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPSHistoric photographic processes have become an
exciting alternative and even complementary tech-nique to digital imaging. At George Eastman House, participants not only get hands-on instruction on the processes, but also get to view prime examples from the Museum’s incomparable collections.
No prior experience is necessary for most of these workshops. They are suitable for artists, photogra-phers, students, teachers, and anyone interested in using these rare 19th century processes in the 21st century.
Don't see the process you'd like to learn? We teach a wide variety of early photographic techniques in private group workshops and individual tutorials. We offer workshops all over the world, and events can also be held at an institution near you. Ask about arranging a workshop or illustrated lecture to suit your needs.
For more information or to register, contact Stacey VanDenburgh at (585) 271-3361 ext. 323 or by e-mail at [email protected].
Camera Obscura: Room With a ViewWe (GEH) are designing a giant Camera Obscura
for the front entrance gallery! The exhibit opened December 22, 2012 and we'll be adding photos of the installation process throughout the week.
Taken at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film. For more information go to http://eastmanhouse.org/
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LATEST NEWS...
Kodak and JK Imaging Announce Brand Licens-ing Agreement for Con-sumer Digital ProductsROCHESTER, N.Y., January 07 --
Eastman Kodak Company and JK Imaging, Ltd. today announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement for JK Imaging to license the Kodak brand name for certain consumer products, includ-ing digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and portable projectors. JK Imaging plans to launch its first prod-ucts in the second quarter of 2013.
“Kodak remains a strong and trustworthy brand in the consumer space and this agreement reinforc-es how valuable our brand is,” said Laura Quatela, President of Kodak and Personalized Imaging. “When we announced our plan to exit the digital camera business last year, we said we would explore licensing opportunities for the brand in this category. The JK Imaging team has global experience and expertise in the industry.”
JK Imaging’s CEO, Joe Atick, is chairman of JA Capital Holdings, a global supplier specializing in consumer imaging and electronics products. Atick said, “Our decision to license the globally-recognized Kodak brand from Eastman Kodak Company was a natural fit. With more than a century of imaging firsts, there is great significance and value in the Kodak name. We intend to continue this legacy and bring to market the next genera-tion of ‘must have’ portable, per-sonal electronics that enhance the lives of consumers worldwide.”About JK Imaging, Ltd.
JK Imaging, Ltd. is a privately held company headquartered in Los Angeles, California with 12 additional sales offices worldwide. The executive team is comprised of experienced sales and market-ing officers with extensive back-grounds in digital imaging and global distribution. JK Imaging, Ltd. services North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
HISTORIC EXECUTIVE MEETING RECORDED
Here is a very historic picture taken at the home of our President Clint Hryhorijiw this past January 2nd. Not too many pictures have been taken of the executives in their working environments and so not many exist to pass down to futures generations. This is the first meeting of the executive for the year 2013. It is seemingly the last pic-ture to be taken in this location as Clint is selling his house for a more convenient ac-commodations downtown. This has always been popular to meet here because of this extra long baronial table where everyone
gets to sit up front. With its Scottish cover its a memory that will be cherished.
Left to right are: Bob Lansdale, Robert Wilson, Oscar Li, David Bridge, Louise Freyburger, John Morden, Wayne Gilbert, Ashley Cook, Clint Hryhorijiw with Prince Hairy, Robert Carter, Mark Singer in the foreground and Felix Russo on the wall.
Not included in the photo are missing ex-ecutives: John Kantymir, Douglas Napier, Judy Rauliuk, Scott Rickard, Gerry Loban, Stan White, and John Linsky.
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Cindy Motzenbecher is stirring up enthusiasm for the Daguerreian Society's pilgrimage to France this fall by sending out a tempting four page listing of all the "Flea Markets and Antique Dealers" in the Paris area. You know where her interests are from experience.
The Daguerreian Society will celebrate its 25 Annual Symposium by travelling to the home ground of inventor Louis Daguerre. The Symposium will be in Paris and Bry-sur-Marne October 9 - 14, 2013. The schedule of events are still being finalized, such as behind-the-scene tours of institutional col-lections, the newly restored Daguerre diorama, lectures by world renowned experts including Dusan Stulik and Stephen Pinson, plus a number of social events.
François Brunet & Bill Becker offer an additional incentive. An exhibition of American daguerreo-type portraits will open in the home of Louis J. M. Daguerre in Bry-sur-Marne, France (near Paris) in September. “The Daguerreian Portrait in America” will be the first public exhibition of photographs ever held in the mansion once occupied by the inventor of pho-tography. More than 60 images will be included in the display, including daguerreotypes by such early American masters as Jeremiah Gurney and the Boston partners Southworth & Hawes. Among the portraits exhibited for the first time will be a daguerreotype taken in the world’s first studio of photography, the only such documented portrait currently known.
STIRRING UP INTEREST FOR PILGRIMAGE TO BRY-SUR-MARNE
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FROM THE NET by Robert Lansdale
Canon eyes dSLR growth in China: The smartphone is killing the camera. Walk into any Shanzhai market in China and you can get a decent phone with a blurry camera included. It is there-fore no surprise that many cam-era manufacturers see high-end cameras as a differentiator in China.
The market for premium cam-eras is pretty much an open play-ing field right now. Go to any park and you won't see many people taking pictures with dSLRs. For every 10 girls with smartphones taking their own photo, you might see one digital camera.
Canon believes that the Chinese market is ready for more advanced photography. Despite a tepid fan base for Japanese prod-ucts, the company has decided to invest heavily into developing the Chinese market. The company plans to grow by 21 offices this year for a total of 32 on Chinese soil. Canon hopes its increased presence will lift annual sales from $3 billion to $10 billion over the next five years. Managing Director Hideki Ozawa said, "The Chinese market is the most impor-tant to Canon."
High-end cameras are a good market because they are not easy to copy. These cameras typically have a customizable assortment of high-tech lenses, sensors and image processors. I really thought I could get a cheap imitation Nikon lens around town, but they were not to be found. That's one of the advantages of the dSLR market. These cameras typically have high-tech lenses, sensors and image processors, which make them very difficult to copy.
Picture eliminating camera shake with what looks like an old film canister. Japanese brand Gizmon, which brought us the quirky iCA case, has released a remote shutter that looks like a used roll of 35mm film.
Hidden within the "film car-tridge" is a retractable cable which
plugs into the headphone jack of any iOS device, and a button on top of the canister acts as the shutter button. This makes the remote shutter useful for long exposure shots or even self-por-traits. The button can also be used to start or stop video recordings.
However, it's a pity that this nifty device isn't compatible with non-Apple devices, such as the Lumia line of handsets and popu-lar Android smartphones.
If you'd like to "switch" up the way you snap photos, the Gizmon iCA remote shutter is available in red, yellow or green from Photojojo at US$23.
If you're travelling or just exploring the city you live in, the last thing you'd want is to weigh yourself down with a two- to three-kilogram tripod. Sure, convention-al tripods offer the best camera support, but they are limited in their mobility.
Unlike traditional camera carri-ers, the Pose camera pouch dou-bles as a camera support after being fully inverted. It's made from a water-resistant neoprene mate-rial and acts as a stand on flat surfaces.
The camera is mounted on the "stand" via the tripod mount and can be easily detached from the case for handheld shooting. Compatible with most compact cameras, the Pose can also be wrapped around curved surfaces like railings, arm rests or steering wheels.
For those who love to carry along a water bottle wherever they
go, theBottle Cap tripod may come in handy. This convenient tripod sports an angular design that allows you to tilt your com-pact snapper at different angles.
Sporting a universal cam-era mount the
attachment can be used on stan-dard-sized bottle caps and can be quickly unscrewed for easy stor-age. Do your part for the environ-ment and reuse your unwanted plastic water bottles as tripods.
When dealing with uneven sur-
faces, more portable varieties like the Joby GorillaPod may provide more stability for your camera over traditional tripods. The GorillaPod allows you to hang your snapper on branches, railings and door knobs thanks to its flexible, adjust-able legs.
Besides being portable enough to carrying around, there are dif-ferent types available that can mount almost any gadget, ranging from dSLRs to iPads.
Assembled with thanks to CNET ASIA.
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PASS IT ON TO A FRIEND – LET EVERYONE READ THE NEWSLETTERComing Events
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE 33 GOULD STREET, TORONTO,
The exhibition “Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness,” pre-sented by the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) and curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, will be on display at the RIC from January 23 to April 13, 2014.
THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUMUntil February 24, 2013. Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada.For the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the ROM has Afterimage: Tod Ainslie’s Vision of the War of 1812. These evocative photo-graphs, documenting many of the War’s historically significant sites, taken by Tod Ainslie using three pinhole cameras.
CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES 255 Spadina Rd., 9AM to 4.30 PMWith historical images of the Ward, this exhibition looks at how photog-raphy shaped ideas about Central and Eastern European immigrants in early 20th-century Toronto.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Until April 7, 2013
Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
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For SaleLarge selection of cabinet cards, CDVs, lantern slides, stereoviews, dags & ambrotypes, tin-types, real photo postcards, viewmaster reels, etc. Email your interests to Les Jones: [email protected] or ConsignmentVintage cameras wanted by expe-rienced eBay seller. Professionally presented with pictures and description. Contact at 905-994-0515 or [email protected] private collector will pay CASH for your photographic collections and estates. Nothing too big or too small. Contact John Kantymir at 905-371-0111 or [email protected].
WantedBicycle & Motorcycle photography – all related items. Contact Lorne Shields, P.O. Box 87588, 300 John St. P.O., Thornhill, ON., L3T 7R3, [email protected]
For SaleStock reduction. Stereo views (5,000) sold in bundles of 50 by topic. Old postcards (20,000), [email protected] photography catalogues and literature pre-1930 including pre-1910 BJP Almanacs. Marcel Safier, [email protected], Brisbane, Australia.
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL CAMERA SHOW
Sunday, JANUARY 27, 201310:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Toronto Don Valley Hotel Eglinton and Don Valley Pkwy. 1250 Eglinton Avenue East Toronto, Ontario, M3C 1J3
FREE PARKING IN HOTEL LOTAdmission $7.00
MONTREAL CAMERA SHOWAPRIL 7, 2013
Holiday Inn Point-Claire, 6700 Trans Canadienne, Pointe-Claire, Quebec – Route 40, exit 52, opposite Fairview Centre, fee $7.00. Contact: [email protected] or 514-898-5351
PHOTO NETWORK EXPOto be held at the old Maple Leaf Gardens on April 6-7, 2013. The Niagara School of Imaging, after 10 years of educational shows at Brock University in St. Catharines, will host the first annual Photo Network Expo - a combination of trade show on Saturday, April 6th and semi-nars on Sunday, May 7th. Location will be the Ryerson University's Mattamy Athletic Centre (renovated Maple Leaf Gardens). For more information please contact Richard Bell at 416-410-8666 or e-mail [email protected]
THE DAGUERRIAN SOCIETY MINI-SYMPOSIUM
and D.C. ANTIQUE PHOTO SHOWMARCH 9 & 10, 2013
Holiday Inn Rosslyn, at Key Bridge
1900 N. Ft. Myer Dr. Arlington, VA. 22209
The Daguerreian Society has scheduled a meeting this spring to be held in conjunction with the D.C. Antique Photo Show. A mini-event is planned for those unable to go to Paris and Bry-sur-Marne in France where the Society will hold its 25th Annual Symposium to celebrate Louis Daguerre. Hotel reserva-tions are at 1-703-807-2000, block code is DAG. Event includes Saturday luncheon with speaker, followed by busi-ness meeting and Live Benefit Auction, then early entrance to the trade show on Sunday, March 10. The combined D.C. Antique Photo and Postcard shows will be held Sunday at 10:00AM. Tom Rall expects he'll have to add more space.
NEW YORK PHOTO SHOWSATURDAY
APRIL 6, 2013
At The Lighthouse,111 East 59th Street,New York, NY 10022
Between Lexington & Park Aves.Three rooms to view for your enjoyment Thousands of images to search through.Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Stereoviews, Cabinet cards, Cartes de Visite, Fine Art Photography, Albums.For more information contact:
[email protected] or 703-845-5555
