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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010… You’ve just missed Pin-Hole Day held on April 25, 2010. But you can enjoy the results at their website: www.pinholeday.org/gallery/index. RICHARD BELL - Commercial and php and for the ultimate pin-hole camera design check out: http:// www.thepinholecamera.com/cam- Industrial Photographer eratopia_vermeer.cfm Since 1969, Rick Bell’s innovative approach to Commercial-Industrial photography has enabled his Toronto studio to produce images which are viewed both nationally and internationally. His reputation has grown on the ability to produce PHSC Monthly Meetings inspiring images under are held on the third Wednesday from September to June in the Gold Room, the tightest schedules and of Memorial Hall in the basement of adverse conditions. He’ll the North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., North York, Ontario. discuss problem solving, The meeting officially begins at 8:00 marketing, advertising, p.m. but is preceded by a Buy & Sell copyright, etc. and social gathering from 7:00 p.m. onwards. For information contact the PHSC or Felix Russo, 33 Indian Rd. Rick’s many clients Cres., Toronto, ON, M6P 2E9, Phone include: Warner Bros (416) 532-7780. (LA), Ontario Power Generation, Guggenheim Programming Schedule: Museum (NY), Canada’s Sunday, May, 16th 2010 Walk of Fame, People -the PHSC Spring Fair opens its doors at the Soccer Centre in Magazine (NY), Toronto Woodbridge, Ontario. Time to buy! International Film May 19th, 2010 Festival, Royal Ontario -Toronto photographer Richard Bell RICHARD BELL Museum, McCain Foods, will bring us up-to-date on the workings of the Niagara School of etc. Exec-Director of the Niagara School of Imaging (Brock University), he’ll Imaging which is staged at Brock also discuss the aims in assembling innovative instructors to teach new technolo- University each August with top professional instructors. gies and creative techniques. SUNDAY, June 6th, 2010 -A special Auction will be held at Meetings in the Gold Room, (basement) of the North York Central Library, the Canadian Legion Branch 344, 5120 Yonge Street. Handy TTC Subway stop and underground parking. 1395 Lakeshore Blvd. West to sell off selected contents from the International Camera Repair which The public is welcome - so please join us. is downsizing. Viewing 9:30am – bidding 11:00am. June 16th, 2010 PHSC SPRING FAIR – MAY 16, 2010 – SOCCER CENTRE -Heather Morton will bring us up- to-date on “Artist’s Porfolios: 7601 Martin Grove Rd., Woodbridge, Ontario, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Marketing in the Digital Age.” ENJOY A DAY AT CANADA’S LARGEST PHOTOGRAPHICA FAIR FREE BUS FROM KIPLING SUBWAY – STUDENTS FREE WITH I.D. JOIN THE PHSC TODAY FOR PROGRAM UPDATES www.phsc.ca SPECIAL AUCTION – JUNE 6, 2010 – CANADIAN LEGION our E-mail address is BRANCH 344, 1395 LAKESHORE BLVD. WEST, TORONTO ONTARIO [email protected] VIEWING 9:30AM BIDDING STARTS 11:00AM Robert A. Carter – Webmaster

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Toronto Notes Reported by Robert Carter – COME ENJOY OUR NEXT MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TH, 2010 Like many of our recent speakers, sensors, and a specially developed on the latest TV trend to offer 3D Don Long provided some thought chip called the “RP (Real Photo) capable sets used with special battery- provoking ideas on photography, past, Processor 3D” which instantaneously powered glasses. The television sets present, and future. His present and synchronizes and blends the data alternately display left and right eye future comments were based in a from the two sensors into a single images at a high speed of 60 frames large part on manufacturers’ informa- high quality image. The stills and mov- per second per eye allowing DVDs of tion given at the March 2010 PMA ies can be viewed directly on a spe- recent 3D movies like Avatar and Alice show. cially made digital frame. Fuji makes in Wonderland to be viewed at home. Don began with a question, ask- 3D prints viewable without special Don took a moment to report on ing how many of us had “been inside glasses. Their facility is in Japan (com- the world of film. The Canadian a camera.” I thought he meant a cam- Imaging Trade Association shows era obscura, but he meant a photo- Canadian film sales in sharp decline (a graphic camera. In his case it was a bit under 50 million rolls in 2002 down room converted into a giant Polaroid to an estimated 2.2 million last year

camera at the Boston Museum of and estimated 1.4 million this year). Fine Arts. The museum used the Even single use camera sales have instrument to record life size repro- fallen now that inexpensive, rugged ductions of its paintings. digital cameras are readily available. Continuing with Polaroid, Don Colour photographic roll paper shows reminded us that many photogra- a (somewhat less dramatic) drop, but phers and artists where upset when LANSDALE PHOTO BY ROBERT this may not mean as big a drop in the digital tsunami forced Polaroid to prints since no one is gathering data end film production. This past March on “dry technology” printing. DON LONG an organization called “The Impossible Bucking the digital trend, Kodak Project” announced that it was making to North America too) but anyone announced its Professional Ektar sheet ing and selling some Polaroid films. can FTP image files and Fuji will mail film in 4x5 and 8x10 sizes as the The first products, PX 100 and PX 600 them the finished prints. world’s finest grain colour negative Silver Shade films, were black and film, while Fuji has launched a medium white media for the SX-70 and series A new 3D Virtual Store in format film camera, the GF670 600 cameras. The company was Woodbridge, Ontario sells Chinese Professional, for 120 and 220 roll film. formed by some staff from the old made 3D digital cameras, viewers and add-on lenses to convert existing dig- Don’s closing comments Polaroid company. They put together echoed an oft heard digital con- a proposal to raise funding and with ital cameras to 3D. The site also offers technical help from Ilford - another free software to convert 2D images to cern: How will we view the digital victim of the digital era - they began 3D so you can print 3D lenticular images captured today as a string making and selling film for existing images on an inkjet printer. The soft- of 1s and 0s in a future time? Polaroid cameras. ware is actually an image masking Compare viewing digital images to tool letting you manually separate the ease of viewing art (paintings, Next Don moved to 3D which is foreground and background subjects sculptures, tapestries, photo- experiencing yet another burst of in a print - like masking in Photoshop graphs etc) from centuries past. popularity in movies and television. which can serve the same purpose, Fuji is marketing a digital stereo cam- although the free software is claimed The complete review is on the PHSC era for stills and HD movies. The W1 to be faster and easier to use. web site at WWW.PHSC.CA has two synchronized 3X optical zoom lenses, two 10 megapixel CCD image Closing the 3D door, Don touched

THE PHSC E-MAIL 2 VOL. 10–1 May 2010 THIS COMING WEEK-END Our hard copy Photographic Canadiana which is delivered by mail only to PHSC members, is particularly interesting and informative for the PHOTOGRAPHIC forthcoming issue Volume 36 No. 1. Fewer and fewer societies are still CANADIANA VOL 36-1 able to produce printed journals; ours has twenty B&W pages of in-depth MAY–JUNE 2010 research for only $35.00 per year. For more information check out our web site at: www.phsc.ca/member_form.PDF. In volume 36-1 we cover a variety of historic topics: The cover picture is of the famous Cirkut camera so popular a century ago to record extreme panoramic landscapes and group photographs. This issue has extensive coverage of the Cirkut camera, its inventors and history including material by the late Bill McBride. Another article addresses the reason why the majority of 19th century photographers in Toronto were clustered along a few blocks of King St East. This PHOTOGRAPHIC article is followed by a discussion of the lighting used in the late 19th century CANADIANA studios. The rest of the 20 page journal contains the various regular columns

Volume 36 Number 1 May – June 2010 and recent news items such as “Browsing through our

As Reported by George Dunbar.... Stereo World (National Stereoscopic Exchanges,” “Toronto Notes,” and President Clint’s Association) – January/February, 2010. We have an extensive review of the work of John James Reilly with new and re- liable information by Paul Hickman. Browsing Reilly is known for his views of Niagara, Yosemite and other historic tourist sites. ❧ The W1 Under the Hood message on birthdays, auctions and fairs... through our Exchanges is the title of a critical review by Bob Pfeiff of the recently introduced Fujifi lm Finepix Real • publications from photographic societies are received and 3D W1 digital camera. He thoroughly studied the downloaded reviewed for your interest. To borrow single items or collections, Users Manual before fi nally receiving his new cam- contact Librarian Gerry Loban - phone (905) 477-3382. era and then, after more that “2000 ex- posures,” has given his fi ne report. It should be required reading for anyone The Daguerreian Society Newsletter Oct/Dec., Jan/March, 2009. Some fi ne ing the company, are described in this ar- contemplating a similar purchase. reports (and photographs by Bob Lans- ticle. Many of the novel glasses for Ab- 3D feature fi lms are always in the PHSC AUCTION dale) from the recent 2009 Philadelphia be’s lenses were created by glass-maker, news these days, so the interview with a Symposium. In particular, reproductions Otto Schott (1851-1935). This report of “Stereoscopic Supervisor” who worked BIG BARGAINS – GREAT LOTS on Twentieth Century Fox’s of the “eight extant Daguerreotypes of Schott’s life in glass manufacturing and Ice Age 3 is Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre” will his contributions to the specialty of opti- certainly insightful. Jayme Wilkinson of cal glass is truly fascinating. Blue Sky Studios give us a behind-the- by Douglas Napier please readers who were unaware of such images. These Dags were the basis of a We also have a comprehensive and scenes look at the leading-edge technology. Other articles review the produc- Hallelujah, it was great! That’s pretty major lecture, The Many Faces of Da- well illustrated article on the diversity well my sentiment as I looks back at the guerre, given by Matthew Isenburg,Lansdale in and design of the Ikonta and Super Ikonta tion of such diverse titles as by Robert Carol and Orlok The VampireA. Christmas recent PHSC Auction event. spite of his brief medical emergency and cameras. Those interested in contacting quick recovery. Zeiss Society members will be pleased Stereo images of displays and galler- After five years since our last auc- The Inventors of the Cirkut Camera and its Parts by the attached directory of members ies in the Smithsonian Institution circa tion I think we can stage it on a more AnotherBrehm review, was soon by building Rita E. Bott, his own of portraits of Daguerre (Jan/March issue) which includes phone numbers and E- 1860 provide a fi ne appreciation of the frequent basis. After all our prepara- cameras and designing them for gives a lengthy biography of David gives particular attention to the images mail addresses. interior of the building. tions to upgrade the business aspects of several Rochester camera compa- Allen Reavill of Rock Springs, by Charlesnies whileR. Meade. also working Some uninitiated for a pro- Photographica World (Journal of the the auction I was still apprehensive The Hockey Research Journal Photographic Collectors Club of Great Wyoming. Information describes him as viewersfessional will wonder photographer. why Monsieur In 1906, Da- as ciety for International Hockey Research) (So- when we first opened up in the morn- Chairman Douglas Napier Britain) – No. 131, 2010/1. John Marriage a successful lawyer and statesman but guerre supervisor invariably appearsfor Century to be Camera, holding he - Fall, 2009. This regular and “accurate ing. Would we have enough items and speculates on the “return” of 3-D in his lists no photographic or mechanical his ownproduced head in place. a 360-degree panoramic historical account of hockey through the what quality would the day bring? editorial message and major articles cover connections. Andrew Morris thinks this Manyphotograph of the images of the presented nation’s at Capitol the years” presents articles and images of #10 CIRKUT CAMERA BY ROCHESTER PANORAMIC CAMERA CO. Well, only a handful of rejected offer- the extensive history of some fi ne prod- could be the right David A Reavill in Society’sthat Annual was nineteen Benefi t feetAuction long areand il- also teams, individual players, posters and ings did not pass inspection. 150 tagged ucts such as, Rock Springs as the name is uncommon lustratedpatented here along improvements with descriptions making other memorabilia that will interest many Newman & Guardia lots arrived from 18 registered sellers cameras and Alexander Birnie’s fi nely- hand and there is only the lawyer Reavill and pricesthe paid Cirkut - very easier interesting! to adjust and runenthusiasts of the game. Back issues of the and with 53 registered bidders we were Lighting of PHOTO GALLERIES crafted 19th century cameras. As well, the listed in the 1900 Rock Springs census. SIHR Newsletter are now available online off to a great start. WesternFrom Canada Jody Sidlauskas Photographic at the His- RIT long history (1898-1955) of clockwork THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA He says: “Perhaps he was a patent attor- to members at: http://www.sihrhockey. in Toronto by Robert Lansdale toricalArchives Association in Rochester Newsletter and - Febru- Carol M. cameras is described with illustrations and We tried something new to PHSC ney either representing someone else in ary, April, 2010. Editor Peter Knowlden org/member_newsletters.cfm# the negotiations, or dealing with a pat- Johnson in the Library of Congress, details of many makes and models. We members which was to auction off a box John H. Noverre is first listed in arches to form a conservato- tells of his acquisition of an odd 1936 Pur- ent he had purchased from someone.” Washington we received Rochester The Photogram (Newsletter of the also fi nd some marvelous information on lot (say all cameras) from which the Toronto street directories as a photogra- ry-like room. The impressive ma Speed camera. This 127-fi lm camera Although Reavill signs himself as the newspaper obituaries and manuscripts.Michigan Photographic Historical Soci- early Victorian and Edwardian printing highest bidder got to choose the best pher at 31 King Street East in 1867 arrangement of windows per- is pictured and the unusual mechanisms Searching the lots before bidding starts inventor on the patent drawings, could He, again, is credited for having devel-ety) - Feb/March, April/May, 2010. Barb processes like “photogalvanography.” located to the right of the Golden Lion. mitted the maximum amount and features are described in detail. Auction team starts the bids rolling. he have accepted the patents to cover oped and patented the Cirkut camera,Bauer’s the article, By the time the photograph (at right) had of glare-free north light to The April issue tells of the introduc- CHEERS!, Detroit Brew- Tailboard (Newsletter of the Photo- legal costs incurred by a client – possi- principles of which have carried throughing History Through the Eye of the Lens, been taken the Lion building had been flood the studio. The rebuilt WILLIAM JAMES JOHNSTON tion of Kodak 828 fi lm and reminds us graphic Collectors Club of Great Britain) bly Wm. Johnston? Reavill is the wit- to high-speed picture work and strip-gives us some wonderful early images of – February, 2010. The, always interest- raised by one floor and given an impres- central facade served as an Biographical information for that the Polaroid SX-70 may now be ness to Johnston’s first patent. exposure for aerial cameras. In 1906brewers and their advertising. ing, review of regional club activities in- sive lower facade of cast-iron pillars and immense billboard inscribed more valuable because of “The Impos- Frederick William Brehm is easier to Brehm visited Washington, D.C. whereMartin Magid tells how Roger Brad- cludes subjects such as: Wray cameras, arches with large sheets of glass. This with large lettering: “Notman Marcel Safier found in genealogy lists sible Project” - the introduction of a new come by as he left a trail of influence he photographed the Library of Congressley, Chairman of the Photographic Col- Are Digital Cameras Collectable? decorative architectural construction was & Fraser Photographers to that David Allen Reavill was born 11 in photographic history. version ofand “Polaroid”fi several other lm. important buildingslectors Club of Great Britain, uses enlarg- , Agfa America Colorfl ex and Kodaks. Also, another re- influenced by the Crystal Palace which the Queen.” The street-level May 1865 in Honey Creek, Crawford, A short sketch is found in Zeiss Historicaincluding a 360-degree panoramic ing-paperview in place of fi lm in any camera. Illinois to parents A. J. and Martha A. (Journal of the Zeiss minder of the Bievres Collector’s Fair in introduced prefabricated cast-iron metal- store front offered impres- by the Yard by Robert B. MacKay.Historica ofSociety) the city - Vol.which 30, was No. 19 2, feet Fall, long, The touted amazing twist to this item is that NO France, 4-6 June, 2010. work to finish that building on time for sive window space for photo (Seaney) Reavill. After university he Therein it states: 2009. Thoseas the interested longest in view the earlyat the his-time. CHEMICALS ARE USED to obtain an took up the study of law in the office of Grafl ex Historic Quarterly (available the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. displaces to attract custom- The man who is believed to havetory of lensesThe and George optical glassEastman will House be hasimage. a - only a digital scanner and Pho- Judy Rauliuk and John Morden sorting ers. The new studio became Ex-Governor Palmer of Illinois, being toshop. This is something I want to try! as a free download from the Internet) First Audience awaits start of the auction. Over 31 King East a jerry-built roof perfected the Cirkut camera anddelighted byBrehm the two panoramic biographies print appear- showing “Kodak one of the popular rendez- admitted to the bar in 1889 in Wyoming. Quarter, 2010. Many articles to interest Lining up to pay for winning bids. penthouse with glass windows was added readied it for mass productioning was here. ErnstGroup Abbe Portrait” (1840-1905), of 64 men a col- shoulder The to setting for a workshop on the item from that box. Then the lot was put vous of fashionable Toronto. Reavill died 28 October 1937 in Denver, Wet-plate Collodion Process was a north- the Grafl ex enthusiast: - the involvement for the actual Noverre studio. Several of Frederick W. Brehm (1872–1950),league, a friendshoulder and partner in one of long Carl line Zeiss, – all identified. up again under the same stipulation. The firm was re-organized in Colorado. ern Michigan woodland. Judith Harrison of the Flammang Camera Company with the window panes are shaded with blinds brilliant camera designer whospecialized was The in the almost design 10-inch of lenses by and 6-foot gelatin After several times the “remainder” of 1883 as Fraser & Sons when Kalter describes the experience and the Folmer & Schwing - an unusual Series C to control lighting of the sitters. At the later to found the Departmentmicroscopes. of print His includes contributions George to Eastman this within the the box was auctioned off as a full lot. It John Fraser left for the States process which was carefully practiced by camera - the Grafl arger enlarging system sidewalk level there is a display of carte Photographic Technology at fiRoch- eld and later,group his whileinnovations William in F.manag- Folmer is seen was something different to change the to pursue his career as an art- participants. - and the authenticity of some 1937-38 pace of the auction. Ed Warner also set de visites while Noverre’s name and ester Mechanics Institute, today’s twice, at either end of the photo. Four Speed Graphics. ist. His two sons sold out in Rochester Institute of Technology. ❧ address are over the door leading to the 20 PHOTOGRAPHICAuto CANADIANA Graflex cameras 36-1 MAY with - JUNE accordion- 2010 up a video viewing system to project 1886 and after passing upper levels. The photographer remained A cabinetmaker by training, Brehm hoods would date the photo to ca. 1910. items onto a big screen during bidding. through several hands the here and next door at 29 until 1879 was born in Waterloo, New York, We ended up with 192 lotted sales that building was demolished to Brehm’s work as a photographer before moving to 101 King St. West. in 1872. Moving to the Rochester seems to have been chiefly panoramic lasted the whole day of activity. become an extension for the area during his twentieth year, he To the left of the Golden Lion building Golden Lion in 1892. pictures of conventions, political meet- number 31 is listed as Unoccupied so con- was fi rst employed by piano and And my thanks to all the volunteers The smiles tell the story of the happy bidders with their winnings. is a plain building which was taken over ings, and work of that nature. As a result To the right of the Golden Lion (see struction chased Noverre to 101 King W. furniture factories before join- who manned the various tasks to run the in 1872 by Notman & Fraser who remod- he owned one of the largest collections below) is a much improved skylight Photographer Thomas Adams then occu- ing the F. A. Brownell Company, auction: Clint H, Wayne G, Ed W, Robert elled the third floor (see below) with pan- of pictures of Rochester in the city. In matching the Notman studio. In 1880 pied the space for 1881 and 1882. CONGRESS OF LIBRARY THE OF COURTESY manufacturers of wooden cam- W, Judy R, John K, John L, John M, els of plate glass, framed in cast-iron 1909 he travelled to the Highlands of Mark S, and all ancillary help, without era bodies for Eastman Kodak. them it would not have been possible. FOUR ISSUES CDV sample of J. H. Noverre pho- ehm of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. After expenses and auction related tography with studio at 31 King East, costs, our first reborn reinvigorated (also 29 King E.) and then a Cabinet portrait from 101 King West PHSC auction was a definite financial PER YEAR success. How much better could it be?

20 PAGES 6 PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA 36-1 MAY - JUNE 2010 Source: Library and Archives Canada. Reference no. 244672 no. Reference Canada. Archives and Library Source: ut camera of members of the Photographers’ Association of America gathered in front of the University Hotel, St. Louis on October 0 x 9 inches and shows excellent likeness of about 300 people. – cut line by editor American Amateur Photographer, March 1905 17 EACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA 36-1 MAY - JUNE 2010

Notman carte verso. Notman & Fraser new studio after move from 120 King East.

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An article in our next Photographic Canadiana line inscribed in the corner of each picture. Having lost concerns The Inventors of the Cirkut Camera and its all his money, Johnston, in his old age, was reduced to Parts. It is little known that William James Johnston, who living on a small government pension. He died in 1941. took out the first patent (1904) for the famous camera, I recently took up the search to see where he is buried was a Canadian. We have traced his history and report and found him at the St. John’s Norway Cemetery in his move to Toronto after the demise of the Rochester east-end Toronto. He and his wife are located in a Panoramic Camera Co. In 1907 the Panoramic Camera strip of land close beside Kingston Road. Its called the Company of Canada was established at 18 Victoria “flat area” as markers all lay flat on the ground. But Street to take photographs with Wm. J. Johnston there is no grave marker for William J. Johnston, only as founder and manager. You can find panoramic office records point to his existence. A commemorative photographs at various photo fairs, so check the credit plaque would be appropriate! PHOTO BY ROBERT LANSDALE PHOTO BY ROBERT

William J. Johnston, inventor of the Cirkut camera is buried in the strip of land at right. No marker commemorates his grave or fame.

THE PHSC E-MAIL 4 VOL. 10–1 May 2010 North-West Rebellion of 1885. He was an avid photographer, a writer FROM THE ‘NET and a free-thinking critic of the Canadian military. At www.theglobeandmail.com/ It’s becoming a trend for new camera’s display allows immedi- books/live-from-the-north-west- gadgets to be seen in pubs and tav- ate displaying of the 3D visual rebellion/article1473094/#photos erns even before they are “officially” captures. Also 3D prints can be the Globe & Mail gives a full report released to the public and press. A produced for which Fujifilm has covering the book: Circumstances case in point is the Sony mirrorless succeeded in the precision lami- Alter Photographs: Captain James system cameras. According to Sony nation of high-resolution, low- Peters. Reports from the War of Alpha Rumors, the NEX-3 was spot- halation prints with lenticular 1885, by Michael Barnholden, ted in a pub in Asia. But unlike most sheets that create the 3D effect. Talon Books. leaks which involve blurry shots, the Beginning in June, the George pictures of the Sony camera are Although battlefield photo- Eastman House in Rochester is graphs had been taken before sharp and seemed deliberately launching a series of photography posed. Such “leaked” stories gain 1885, they were exposed using workshops, some open to the large cameras and slow plates that more attention and lineage in the public for the first time. Ranging media so the manufacturers play resulted in after-the-fact scenes from rare historical processes to with staged results. along with the ruse. how to manage digital processes, The blog also mentioned that the many of these workshops had Called up for duty with the lens on the camera is a 16mm F2.8, been previously offered only to the Canadian Militia which headed which appears to have a chrome fin- world’s top photo conservators. west to subdue the Metis, Peters ish. Following in the footsteps of did double-duty as a correspon- Olympus when it first unveiled the The first workshop, Tracing the dent and photographer for a news- E-P1, the Sony shooter doesn’t seem Light: Imagery Before Photography, paper as well an Artillery officer. to have an onboard flash. unveils the physionotrace, the camera obscura and the camera Peters equipped himself with PENTAX Canada Inc. announc- lucida. Participants in the June a hand-held Marion Academy es that their K-x has been voted 14-17 event will explore the era camera which had a relatively high “BEST DSLR Entry Level 2010” by just before the dawn of photogra- shutter speed, and could be load- TIPA (Technical Image Press phy and make drawings in the ed in advance with 12 glass plates. Association). TIPA is a non-profit, formal gardens at George Eastman Reloading had to be undertaken at independent organization consist- House. You’ll make your own 19th- night lying on his stomach with ing of the editors and technical century-style portable camera blankets covering his hands and directors of 29 magazines in 13 obscura. The class is limited to 10 arms. Somewhat bulky, the cam- countries. TIPA members made participants. Tuition is $750, ($700 era had a focussing viewer on top their selection during a meeting in for GEH members), plus $30 mate- and a sliding box on the bottom New York on April 9, 2010. Since rials fee. For information go to: there are many categories, practi- www.eastmanhouse.org/Main/ cally every manufacturer can grab events/series/photo-workshops. for the headlines with “their win.” Rumors on the Web indicate TIPA also chose the FinePix that Sony will announce its Micro REAL 3D System for Best Imaging Four Thirds equivalent in early Innovation. Fujifilm’s 3D technolo- May. One particularly speculation gy offers an uncomplicated way is that the firm will unveil two mod- for consumers to create and per- els, with one of them going for less than the body-only option of the Olympus E-PL1 (US$549). It also seems there are three lenses in the company’s pipeline – a 16mm F2.8, 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 and Image of No. 4 Patent Academy camera 18-200mm telephoto optics. courtesy of the George Eastman House, Competitors may now face a “war,” Rochester. Variations of fittings exist. this time based, not on features, holding twelve glass plates. By but on price. inverting the camera, a fresh plate The Globe and Mail shows an could be transferred from maga- ceive 3D images and movies. interesting series of images on zine to camera for exposure by the Advanced 3D digital shooting is as their web site taken by James rotary shutter, then returned to the easy as 2D photography with the Peters, a captain in the permanent magazine by inverting the camera FinePix REAL 3D W1 camera. The Canadian Militia at the time of the again.

THE PHSC E-MAIL 5 VOL. 10–1 May 2010 PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA SHORT NOTICE AUCTION SUNDAY, JUNE 6th, 2010 VIEWING 9:30 AM – BIDDING 11:00 AM – 250+ lots Canadian Legion Branch 344, 1395 Lakeshore Bld. West, Toronto

ABSOLUTE AUCTION

Selected inventory from Items are from one member who is INTERNATIONAL CAMERA REPAIRS retiring from the trade. PHSC will not accept additional items for this Classic 35mm, medium format, large special Store Contents Auction format 4x5 & 8x10 cameras & lenses; All makes: Cambo, Sinar, Linhof, FORMAT SAME AS MARCH AUCTION Canon, Minolta, Bronica, Hasselblad, NO RESERVES – NO MINIMUM Rollei, Mamiya, Bogen, Vivitar, Tam- EVERYTHING MUST SELL ron, Tokina; Nikon AF lenses, AF film A 5% BUYER’S cameras, accessories, slide trays & PREMIUM WILL APPLY 35mm slide projectors, flash bulbs, darkroom accessories, enlargers, tri- CASH or known CHEQUE will be accepted as payment for auction items pods, motion picture items, film hold- Sorry– no credit card payments. ers & photographic accessories. Item preview - day of auction 9:30am - Bidding commences 11:00am THIS IS A NO-RESERVE AUCTION – EVERYTHING MUST SELL FREE ADMISSION – PUBLIC WELCOME SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH For update information check: www.phsc.ca/auction.html SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH

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by Everett Roseborough around to get the best daylight coming in the window. The seat could be easily OLD TIME EQUIPMENT adjusted for height and it In running my different studios over the years, I came with a separate bar on assembled a variety of used equipment which proved which a bicycle seat was to be most useful with modern applications, despite mounted. That part was their age. There were several old head-rests of the probably for a standing wife clamp-and-agony style that came down from Sammy while the husband sat in the Kaye who had them in his daylight studio – the last to lower chair. be operated in the Toronto area, as far as I know. One Much of my old equip- in particular was quite unique as the bulky cast-iron ment was donated to the feet had been made by a foundry in Niagara Falls (by Science Centre in Toronto imprinted name) while the upright column was clearly but it proved for naught as it from the mould of a fire hose nozzle (see drawing). all was put into storage. I made full use of the head rests up until the 1960s when strobe lighting became available. I did considerable fashion photography of models wearing hats with veils which quivered from the slightest disturbance. Shooting with an 8x10 camera and having to stop down to f22 to get the best depth of field, I ended up with an exposure of at least one full second. Even with the model “clamped down” it took considerable patience to expose between the model’s heart beats. The movement from a heart beat could ruin the small dot details in the veiling deco- rations. So the head clamps proved to be my salvation in that situation.

For models that had to be leaning LANSDALE PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT

DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR – WOODCUTS FROM HYATT’S 1899 CATALOGUE BY THE AUTHOR – WOODCUTS FROM HYATT’S DRAWINGS or reclining back in a pose, I could push the clamp into their waist to give support and hold them still. Another item that came from the Kaye Studio could have originated Wayne Gilbert has been heading up a PHSC 35th when the Simpson Anniversary project which will be finished soon. Brothers first started in the 1880s in Toronto. It He and Bob Carter have been digitizing 35 years was called an Endean of Photographic Canadiana along with all other Chair that is cited in publications: PC Index, E-Mail Newsletters, etc. In Anthony’s Bulletin of searchable PDF format on a DVD disc, it will go 1888. This was a posing- only to paid up members of the Society. Not sure bench combination that how many football fields the pages could cover was mounted on a circu- but there will be thousands of interesting stories to lar platform with several small wheels at read and a ready source of historical information. its edge. It was the ideal way to swivel the seated sitter

THE PHSC E-MAIL 7 VOL. 10–1 May 2010 Coming Events & Want Ads tions and estates containing cameras, lenses, photographs, docu- PHSC SPRING FAIR MAY 1st thru AUGUST 30th, 2010. ments, books, negatives etc. The Art Gallery of Ontario, to cel- Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Please call Tom for no obligation ebrate CONTACT 2010, has com- The Annual PHSC Spring evaluation 416-888-5828. missioned conceptual artist Barbara Fair opens its doors at the Wanted Kruger to create a large-scale public Soccer Centre in Woodbridge, Ed James is looking for Russian installation on the Gallery’s signature Ont., 7601 Martin Grove Rd. F.E.D. and Zorki 35mm type camer- starting at 10 AM for eager glass skirt, spanning an entire city as, NO Zenits! Contact: Ed James, block between McCaul and Bever- buyers. For table information contact: Clint Hryhorijiw, Fair P.O. Box 69, Elkhorn, Manitoba, ley Streets. This marks the first time R0M 0N0, Tel: 204-845-2630. the AGO has exhibited artwork on Chairman, TEL: 416-622-9494 the exterior of its newly transformed or E-mail to: 1956canada@gmail. For Sale building. Still on view until the end of com. Admission $7.00 – free to CD ROM of Biographical Index of May is the work of pioneering multi- students with school ID. Dagerreotypists in media artist Françoise Sullivan, re- Canada 1839-1871 cipient of the 2008 Iskowitz Prize. by Graham Garrett modern Karsh portrait from the JUNE 5th and 6th, 2010. Consid- is available for original negative. Priced at $400.00 research. Great ering a week-end in Paris, France? list. [email protected] Then add to your itinerary a visit to source for earliest Wanted photo process in Europe’s most important open-air Larry Gubas, of Zeiss Historica photo fair at Bievres, outside Paris. Canada. Available thru Archived needs materials relating to the Books at www.archivedbooks. Sales officially begin on Saturday, earliest Zeiss/Ica companies. May 5th at 2 PM until 9 PM. Sunday ca/acdbcanada.html OR go to Prime attention are firms of www.se-photo.com. times are 7 AM to 6 PM. Huettig, Dr. Kruegener, Wuensche, The Daguerreian Society 22nd Zeiss Palmos and, of course, Wanted Symposium will be October 21-24, Zulauf of Switzerland. He wants Bicycle & Motorcycle photography 2010 at the DoubleTree Hotel in images of cameras, ads or cata- – all related items. Contact Lorne Atlanta Buckhead, 3342 Peachtree logs and is willing to purchase but Shields, P.O. Rd., NE, Atlanta, Georgia. For also happy to receive copies or Box 87588, information and registration con- scans. Send to: larrygubas@ 300 John St. tact [email protected] gmail.com P.O., Thornhill, ON., L3T 7R3, MAY 1st to JUNE 5th, 2010, The For Sale lorne-shields@ Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen St. Stephen Shuart has moved to rogers.com. West, Toronto, 416-504-0575, Massacheusetts and reminds us bulgergallery.com – presents the he still supplies ground glass to Wanted first international exhibition and sale size. Also has truck loads of photo Stan White has a request via James of vintage prints from the Image Col- materials in storage for sale. Try: McTammany & Co who seek an lection at the National Geographic [email protected] 8mm projector (not Super 8). Hope Society. THE PERVASIVE VIEW Fort George Photos Wanted to beg, borrow or buy to view family features approximately 80 unique Clark Bernat of the Niagara Historical films to see if they are in condition vintage black and white prints rep- Society Museum sends a request worth putting on DVD. If anyone has resenting the earliest days of the So- from old Fort George which is under such a projector please e-mail to ciety (founded in 1888) through the Stan at: [email protected] 1940s. The exhibition includes im- renovation for “1812” celebrations. ages from Canada and from around Needed are reconstruction photos For Sale the world encompassing several of the Fort from the 1930s and 40s. Boris Spremo has limited edition genres, including exploration, dis- Tel: 905-468-3912 or Fax: 905-468- poster of Toronto Sequicentennial covery, anthropology, aeronautics, 1728 or ClarkBernat@niagarahis- 1834-1984 which bears one of his and portraiture. Many of these im- torocal.museum photos. Contact Boris at boris- ages have never been published. For Sale [email protected] Early Photography in Kingston Information Wanted For Sale (biographies of 60 photographers) Gems and carte de visites, tintypes Sheldon Chen has by Jennifer McKendry. Available at in Canada - seeking history and published a book of $15 plus $3 for shipping. For cop- examples for an article and for my Karsh images. All ies contact: J. McKendry, 1 Baiden website www.tiny.cc/tintypes. Things Karsh is a St., Kingston, ON, K7M 2J7 Marcel Safier, Brisbane, Australia high quality, limited [email protected] edition book in a pre- Wanted sentation box plus a Cash paid for collections, liquida- THE PHSC E-MAIL 8 VOL. 10–1 May 2010