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After a Central Park photowalk on Saturday morning with @cc_chapman, I headed downtown to the Lomography NYC store.
I love this store. The staff is always amazing and helpful - and you can tell they are just as passionate about the products as the customers. They spent some time helping me pick out some B&W film (Silver Tone for those playing along) and checking out the difference between the Lubitel and the Seagull (I'll be owning a Lubitel soon!). While I was there, I checked out the Diana World Tour - which is an incredible collection of original Diana cameras. It takes up a wall and is really impressive. Not only was it an exercise in time travel, but also global travel, with many different countries represented.
I love that my @AdagioTeas order came in these great canisters AND that they remind you of their online properties (seen here: TeaChat and TeaMap).
Lomography invites you to join the incredible Diana World Tour in New York City. View the real treasured Detrich Collection, including over a hundred Diana and Diana Clone Cameras produced from the 60’s to 70’s. Plus the stunning New Yorker edition of the Diana Vignettes. A series of in-depth Lomography lectures and workshops will be held to share the true fun and secret tips of Lomography Diana F+ “Diana World Tour”.
The Detrich Collection
It’s assumed that the original Diana camera was met with significant success in its domestic and export markets, so much so that a flood of knock-off’s, copies, and derivatives were quickly introduced to capitalize on the demand. With names like “Future Scientist,” “Megomatic,” “Snappy,” “Windsor,” and “Zodiac,” the camera clones offered a huge range of varying features, including simplified apertures, extra shutter speeds, electronic flashes, fake light meters, longer lenses, and a 620 film format. Several versions were private-label commissions by large American companies such as GE or Reader’s Digest. It’s not clear which copies were made by the original Great Wall Plastic Factory, and which were made by rival manufacturers.
Mr. Allan Detrich was able to amass what must be the most incredible collection of Diana cameras and Diana clones in the entire world. In Spring 2007, Lomography was able to convince Mr. Detrich to sell us this incredible batch of cameras and is absolutely thrilled to present it as the priceless “Detrich Collection”.The Detrich Collection & Diana Vignettes Exhibition runs from November 2nd 2009 through November 26th 2009.
This is a quiet obsession (one that is similar to my Polaroid obsession) - and while I was planning on hitting the NYC store tomorrow, I think I need to wait until later in the week. My Diana Mini is calling!
This is the car I really want, even in the exact color. British Racing Green. It's soooo tiny, I bet you could pack it with your bike on top of your SUV.
Took this with my Lumix G1 on Sunday - he was hidden away in this overgrown front garden.
Does having a 2- or 3-megapixel camera on your cellphone make you an artist or a photographer? Chase Jarvis would argue it does.
“Yeah, everybody is an artist,” he said.
The 38-year-old commercial photographer is a kind of platform-agnostic photo-evangelist. Still buzzing from the limited sleep and excitement of the recent launch of a 256-page book of his iPhone photography ("The Best Camera Is the One That's With You"), a new iPhone app (Best Camera) and related photo sharing social network, he told us he's hoping to generate a bit of a pop cultural movement.
Now that nearly everyone has some kind of camera in hand, "there's no barrier to entry," whether a kid playing with Dad's phone, a professional photographer or a grandmother tapping out snapshots of her day.
“My [65-year-old] mom is a great example. She was never programmed that she is a creative type,” he said. But when she got an iPhone, “it enabled something in her…. There’s no drama in this thing that you’re supposed to talk to your friends on.”
A bit of an iPhone freak himself -- Jarvis has bought every iteration of iPhone upon its release -- he found the device has served as a visual journal for him, the way artists have sketchpads and writers have notepads. Typically, these rough creative playgrounds aren’t ever seen by the public – at least not while the creators are alive.
But Jarvis has been working to turn that inside out. “This is a legitimate tool. This is a book-worthy topic.” A publisher agreed; thus was born a book featuring more than 200 images he shot and edited using only his iPhone and apps on the device. His work is to be featured in a traveling gallery tour this fall in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York.
He said that, although he has some of the best equipment out there at his disposal, the iPhone "gave me total freedom," despite the embedded camera's constraints and parameters. “We think we want more choice, but we really want less.”
More choice in his early iPhone shooting efforts meant using many apps to do all he wanted with his pictures. One to shoot, one for a filter, one for sharing on Twitter, another for Facebook. This helped to inspire him to develop an all-in-one app with Ubermind. Best Camera boasts 14 easily applied (and easily removed) filters and the ability to share photos via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and on his new website with a tap.
With his site, he hopes to envelope this burgeoning community of iPhone photographers, give them a platform and shared language to help them engage with one another about their art. The site features the photographs shot and shared via the app, complete with details about the photographer and filters used. Those who have the app can track live the photos shared -- and vote them up. Unlike Flickr, this site features photos taken or shaped using only one device: the iPhone.
So far, the $2.99 app has been doing fairly well, ranking No. 3 among paid photography apps within just a few days and No. 11 among paid apps overall, according to the iTunes App Store.
Although Best Camera's first iteration launched just days ago, version 1.1 is in the works. Initially, Jarvis and the team are looking for feedback. The upgrade, he said, would likely include expanded sharing and enable deeper dialogue.
"There’s virtue in making the perfect picture," he said. "But there’s also merit in pulling something out of your pocket.” As he said, “this gets you taking pictures…and gives [us all] permission to suck.”
-- Michelle Maltais
The iPhone 3GS has changed the way I take photos - as much as I love my Panasonic G1, the iPhone is the camera that's with me everywhere. And Chase Jarvis's Best Camera App and community inspires me every day. I find that I need to take at least 5 pictures a day or I'm absolutely distracted by wanting to.
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