APCS NEWS The Newsletter of the Australia Photographic Collectors Society Issue 56 February 2016 Incorporation Registration No. A16888V ABN 55 567 464 974 PRESIDENT – Rod Reynolds 0408173662 Meetings & Auctions are held at the [email protected] SECRETARY- Margaret Mason 03 9836 3719 Australian Model Railway Hall [email protected] 92 Wills Street TREASURER – John Young [email protected] Glen Iris NEWSLETTER – Editor- Andrew Korlaki [email protected] Melways Ref 59 H7

to meet them, to hear what they have February Meeting - Trends in Kodak brings back Super 8 Photographic Collecting to say and add your experiences. Together we should have an At the recent CES Show in the USA We are introducing some variety into interesting afternoon. Kodak surprised everyone by the meeting formats in 2016 and announcing the production of a new following some negotiations (which All welcome – bring a friend and/or potential new member – 2pm at the Super 8 combined with a film are continuing!), the February processing & scanning service. meeting will explore just what is AMRA Hall next Sunday. happening to photographic collecting, There will also be the usual swap and what the ‘hot items’ are, how they are sell table for those items that are being traded, what is happening to taking up valuable storage space in values, and maybe – what we can your collection, and where you might expect to happen in the future. pick up something that you have been This will be a collective discussion chasing… where we share our experiences. We 2016 Calendar Final technical details of the camera will be discussing auctions and are to be confirmed, but the markets, specialist dealers, the 21 February: Meeting - Trends in prototypes on display had a large LCD internet, valuation processes, and photographic collecting viewfinder “for framing the shot”, the other matters as they emerge. 13 March: Public Market - Box Hill option of fitting 2 different lenses, Town Hall variable filming speeds and a built in Some recent sales and trends have 17 April: Members only auction rechargeable battery. surprised everyone, and we will 15 May: *NEW* Members & endeavour to find out just what is eMembers Mini-Market happening. 19 June: AGM - Photographic The event will be recorded and competition written up as a commentary for all 17 July: Members only auction members to see. 21 August: Meeting - Collecting digital & technology

Assisting us in this process will be 18 September: Public Market - Box Hill people who we think will be able to Town Hall For more info visit - give us the benefit of a lot of trading 16 October: Members only auction http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Co in each of the forms. We have some 20 November: Social meeting for nsumer/Products/Super8/default.htm special guests lined up. Come along members and friends AMRA Adaptor brings autofocus to http://petapixel.com/2016/02/12/rus http://dieter.me/building-a-large- manual focus lenses sian--camera-coming-back- format-camera-in-plywood-2/ battle-leica-luxury/#more-203119 If you are considering a new digital http://petapixel.com/2016/01/19/i- camera a recently announced adaptor $1700 device to digitise your built-myself-a-16x20-inch-camera-in- may help you decide which camera to negatives 10-hours/#more-199493 buy. Chinese company TECHART have I am not suggesting you rush out and Speaking of homemade cameras – announced an adaptor in Sony A7 buy one, but it’s an interesting here’s a link to a couple of Olympus camera mount that has a built in solution to digitising negatives. I’ve cameras you can make with nothing motor that allows the adaptor to actually been using something similar more than some paper and a home extend 4.5mm to provide autofocus I made years ago to allow me to scan printer (you set the lens focus to infinity slides and negatives quickly. when you mount it onthe adaptor). http://www.filmtoaster.photography/ The adaptor is designed for Leica M filmtoaster mount lenses, but you can also use Leica Screw, Leica R, Contax/Yashica, A visit to the basement of Pentax K and Minolta MD lenses via George Eastman House an accessory adaptor. The adaptor is designed to work with lenses weighing Chris Marquardt was given the rare up to 700 grams. Pricing is currently opportunity of a private tour at the $349 US. More info at George Eastman Museum Technology http://techartpro.com Vault with curator Todd Gustavson. http://fotopus.com/family/kids/paper You can find the 1 hour vide here: craft/ Zenith cameras to return? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j March Market – Box Hill , the Russian company who w8s6dPFyB8 own the Krasnogorsky Zavod optical DIY Large Format Camera Don’t forget to book your table at the factory in the city of Krasnogorsk near March Market in the Box Hill Town have announced they intend As it becomes harder to find large and Hall. Details can be found on the to resume production of Zenith ultra large format cameras people are website: resorting to making their own. Here cameras which quoting the company http://www.apcsociety.com.au/marke are a couple of examples, and the director will be “a luxury device, t.html analogous to the Leica.” results are impressive: