The Italian website Fotografiapuntoit has put up a video of the Fuji X-Pro1 disassembling:
You can mute it as there is only music.
Update: they needed the mount for a test bench for the lenses. That’s a very expensive part.
Personalised and unique iPhone cover
No, I’m not trying to pimp a specific brand of cellphone and its accessory, but Say hello to iPlate is a awesome DIY project where the author uses wet collodion glass plate, and old photographic process, to make a personalised iPhone cover. This could work for any device that uses glass, or something that can be replaced by a glass plate.
Efke and ADOX to be discontinued
Fotokemika Ceases Production, Affects Efke/ADOX:
Fotokemika in Croatia has effectively ceased production of their films and papers, affecting Efke and ADOX products. Efke films and papers are completely shut down, but there’s some hope for ADOX films.
This is sad. Less choice of black and white film.
Kodak to sell film division?
It has been rumored that Kodak is trying to sell its still profitable film division.
What worries is that beside Kodak and Fujifilm, who makes colour film? I like film photography in colour. I do love colour. If I can’t buy anymore film, I’ll be very sad.
Time to stock up, and hope that whoever buys Kodak film business, does it to keep it alive, or license the technology left to one that want to do it.
Digitising film with a DSLR
Scanning Film Negatives With A DSLR – A Maker’s Guide by DIY photography.
Right now I can get higher resolution and better image quality that what street labs give you on CD.
It is not just a matter of photographing the film with a digital camera. There is must much work behind the scene, and given the price and rarity of film scanner, and the performance of even high end flatbed scan with film support like Epson V600 and V700, it might be worth it. I have always thought I good do it that way, but never went the extra effort to actually do it properly. It is probably way easier with black and white.
Remember, slide duplication was done that way, albeit with a specialised duplication film that had some very specific characteristics.
When I build one of these rigs, I’ll let you know.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 8000 frame user review
Prophotonut: Fujifilm X-Pro 1 ~ 8000 frame user review, by Damien Lovegrove, where he took the camera on a trip.
The X-Pro1 is a camera that I believe is best suited for street, travel and portrait photography. It’s not at home in a flash lit studio and it’s not fast enough for any sort of action photography. It’s definitely a niche camera and one I will love using on a daily basis.
Fujifilm film discontinuation
Via the photographblog, Fujifilm to discontinue Fujichrome Velvia 100F in 35mm, 120 and 4×5 formats and Velvia 50 in 4×5 and 8×10. Last shipment in December 2012 for the UK.
This is sad, even for the Velvia 50 at it represent one of the best colour film today for landscape. The market for reversible colour film is shrinking even more.
Zack Arias X-Pro1 test in Mumbai
Before the release of the camera, Zack Arias tested the X-Pro1 for Fujifilm in Mumbai. While this is a promotional video for Fujifilm, just watch Zack working, and the images he made:
I also linked to Zack reviews in the past.
Why your GPS might not work in China
You might wonder why your camera GPS might not operate in China. Stefan Geens explain us why Panasonic, Leica, FujiFilm, Samsung and Nikon censor their GPS cameras. The tl;dr version is to respect the law China about GPS devices sales and usage. Note that they are not the only manufacturers.
I don’t know if my Holux GPS would work in China, but I bought it from Hong Kong.
“Some Thoughts on Digital Camera Lifespan”
Minh Thein on Petapixel has some thoughts on digital camera lifespan”
In the film days, the camera body and lenses lasted a long time; you invested in glass, got a decent body — one that fulfilled your personal needs as a photographer — and then picked the right film for the job. In that sense, image quality differences between brands were down to the lenses and the photographer.
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Bottom line: the camera body now plays a much more critical role in the imaging chain because it also contains the “film”, and this isn’t something you can change when the equivalent of a new emulsion is released.
Before you increased the technical image quality with better lenses and better film. A 1950 Leica M can use modern Leica glass and modern film. Still the same camera body.
Also another point Thein raise is how digital camera are obsoleted by unavailability of things like batteries, and the risk of losing ones archive with file format incompatibilities, *cough* RAW *cough* , as well as storage solutions.
This is something to be thought about with our society being more and more throw away. I wonder if the amount of e-waste isn’t worse than the chemicals used for film processing and printing.