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Articles on Various Subjects
- Light
Sources for Digital and Video? A "white paper" dialog
between Gary Regester, Michael Collette (Betterlight)
and Ron Tussy from 1995. Includes "How to built
your own high frequency daylight fluorescent light source
for under $300." Includes material still unspoken
after 9 years.
- New Your
Blind Meter Photo meters are based on the human perception
of brightness, NOT the sensitivities of color film, and are
blind to two/thirds of the visual spectrum.
- New Survive
the Future of Imaging Very shortly, you will be a "webographer",
don't worry, you only need some "cool", not hot,
continuous light, a little "camera movement" and "D65"
- New and old Photon
Madness An article written in 1986 for Photo District
News. Subtitled "Studio in a Bag" -a studio-in-a-bag
idea is still the basis for all design by Gary Regester.
- By
the Light of a Window written in 1983 includes the
aesthetic basis of the "windowlight" for photography
and instructions to build your first $15 "lightbank".
New Media. Photomongers
Arise! the coming webcast revolution will save our shrinking ship
(which we've been saying now for too long!). You have the "know-how",
you'll need a little continuous lighting, maybe a camera movement
system, a little vision and you're ready for the coming wave.
- BBC Online, PBS
Online, CNN Follow
the action, sample the technology. The 3000 "traditional" television
stations are about to become 3 million points of "new
media" motion broadcast including your latest client! Print
media is getting smaller because the money is headed to the
web - follow the money.
- New Venue, iFilm, Streaming
Culture, dfilm, Examples
of the "folking" of internet broadcast. What
it's going to become. Trade mags and shows - DV , Streaming
Media
- WebCams
Everywhere The best directory of this aspect
of the New Media. And one in Africa.
- QuickTimeVR , iPix, Spheron,and VRPA variations
on 360 Panoramas. Sample their gallerys.
- Kaidan James
Anders' tool company for 3-D object photography and 360 panoramas.
- MediaCleaner Streaming
compression tools now from Discreet.
- QuickTime Apple's
offerings to web streaming. Real.com Another
rising player.
- Production assistance? Try IFP or Filmarts. Or
the lovely Trevanna in
NYC which features a number of New Media links.
- Cutest "New Media" cameras of
2005 - Exilim
Pro EX-P505 by Casio and D-Snap by
Panasonic, the still and video convergence FINALLY.
- Two new web browsers, Mozilla and
Norway's Opera . Site
help? Try SiteWelder or Dogbark.
- The Wayback
machine - any internet site back to 1996 - even
yours. Even sites that no longer exist.
Lighting for
Still Imaging.
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Still /
Digital Imaging.
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- ArcaSwiss, the finest, most clever and compact medium and large format view cameras by photographer Phillipe Vogt and son, Martin - who are so far too busy making cameras and ballheads to have finished their website - email them by using both addresses - Swiss "arca-swiss@swissonline.ch" and French "arca-swiss@wanadoo.fr".
- Artzone Great
site for black and art photography and links to many, many
good resources. Thank you, Eliadis! (This site has been down
during the last half of 03- I am checking.)
- Pentacon Tell
me truthfully, do you buy a $20,000 Leaf / Sinar camera to
capture an image or to impress the art director? This
east German linear array camera is the best digital secret
of all time. Uses SilverFast software, same as Leica
S2. Captures 100 MG files, sells to the Geman photographer
for $3500 usd.
- W.
Gottschalt, Camera Hero
- Agfa
- Alpa
of Switzerland
- Bogen
Photo Corp Photographic equipment of every kind
- Manfrotto carries on the great tradition of their first
import agent, Lester Bogen!
- BetterLight
Digital Cameras Michael Collette's New and Better
Large Format Digital Scanning Camera Backs.
- California
Sunbouncer Reflector and diffusion systems
by photog, Peter Geller. Shhh! Peter has four grades
of diffusion fabric 5 meters WIDE. You heard me right!
- Calumet
Photographic Retail stores, yes, more
importantly, RENTAL, in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and
Hamburg and other German cities.
- Canon
U.S.A. Makers of 35mm cameras, lenses, and flash
equipment.
- Fuji
Film USA , Fuji
Japan
- Gitzo Tripods
from France. Another Manfrotto/Vinten company. Our personal
favourite!
- Hasselblad
USA , Hasselblad
Sweden and Hasselblad
Germany
- Kodak Kodak,
the World
- Leica
Germany (USA)
- Lexar
Media
- Lightware Cases
for all manner of photo and travel geat by photog, Paul Peregrine
- Manfrotto
Italy Tripods and lighting supports.
- Mamiya
- MegaVision Pro
digital imaging systems.
- Minolta Cameras
and meters.
- Minox
Germany Small rangefinder 35mm and 16mm still
cameras.
- Nikon
Japan , Nikon
U.S.A.
- NPC
Corporation Polaroid proofing backs for most
still camera systems.
- Pentax
Imaging Denver Colorado.
- Polaroid
Studio USA Polaroid
DE AU JP
- Polaroid Polarizer Films (no link
at present) Polaroid's Secret First Born Child, linear
polarizing 19x50" films
(NH-38) and other polarized materials. Said to be owned and
manufactured by 3M but I can only find this material with KnightOptical
UK and Apioptics.
Let me know if you can find it at 3M.
- Rollei
- Sinar
Bron Imaging Sinar large format camera, Broncolor
Flash and Leaf's Area Array Digital Camera Backs.
- SetShop Every
possible need for backgrounds, translucent media and set
building. Located in New York City and Tokyo.
Video /
Cine Imaging.
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Resources
for the Study and Conservation of Art and Artifact.
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Photographer and Photography Sites
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Eclectic Favourites
and Vitual Tools
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- www.refdesk.com Every
link to every info source.
- Get Sunset,
sunrise -. World
Time? More Time? Weather?
- SphereOne,
Inc. Our Lighting Designs for Alertness, Better
Sleep and the Winter Blues. SphereOne is the technology
transfer partner to the research foundation, Center
for Environmental Therapeutics -a wealth of information
and links to light and its effect on the human being.
- Camera
on the Colorado Divide NetCam of Silver Plume's
Rocky Mountains and Local (12 minutes) Ski Area, www.skiloveland.com.
- Crops
Circles I've been in four crop circles near
Silbury Hill and Avebury UK in July 2000 - I don't
know - very amazing!
- Edmond
Scientific Every little optical widget for your
imaging experimentation for very little money. And its
sister (brother), Edmond
Optics for leds and lenses. Or Kopp
Glass for fresnels, prisms, filters.
- World Cinema as Video, Facets. 2000
Classic books, Bibliomania.
Remember Voyager's
early CDs?
- Whirled peas or wooden
wonders?
- SHOWstudio From
London, a wonderful "new media" fashion
site.
- Furtherfield Another
from London, web for artists and net nomads.
- Nerve New
York's answer. And CAKE
NYC.
- Marcos
Novak Architecture in "Intermedia".
- Noguchi
Museum NYC The American-Japanese artist is an
important point of departure for the designs of Gary
Regester.
- Intentional
Communities, Eco-villages, NomadsResidents
- Photo
Serve "The first on-line portfolio service
in America" by Set Shop's Randy Phillips.
- Emigre , Brody Two
starting points for type on the web. Also FontSite.
- U.S
Patent Database Check those claims!
- Alibris and Biblio Co-op
Book Searchs - beats the chaos of Amazon, especially for
used and esoteric.
2004! Year of the Monkey(s).
Politics Unusual. Oh, no, 2005! Year of the Boy Chicken
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