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Category Archives: Why? The Climate Camp 2009 on Blackheath was just getting underway when we rolled up there yesterday evening. Much of the media presence seemed to have dissipated after the initial launch didn’t result in a bloody battle a la G20. There were quite a few snappers around though, lugging kit. And there’s the rub as they…  I’m very enamoured of my ‘new’ Rolleiflex 3.5F Type 4 This photo show various other bits & pieces too: a Rolleinar 2, a Rolleifix, lens hood, medium yellow filter and the gorgeous burnished alluminium caps. I have never regarded my cameras merely as tools to get photographs. I also like intricate engineering and complex technologies… Camera Obscura Lucida* by Roland Barthes. Have you read it? Can you read it? I’ve been reading extracts and I have some serious issues with it. I know a lot of big words but obviously not as many as Roland Barthes. I found it hard to actually understand what he was saying from the outset… Being a self-confessed gear-head I used to read dpreview avidly. I still glance at it occasionally but the signal-to-noise ratio seems to be on an exponential curve downwards and as I slide inexorably further into the darkside of analogue I now find it of limited relevance. Before I start on why, let me say that… |
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