Nikon - Pure Photography

Now that all the videos are out in the Pure Photography series, its seems an FM2 like digital camera is on the way from Nikon.

Click here for some indepth predictions from Nikon rumours. 

Nikon DF Camera Images Have Been Leaked

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER | TIFF 2013

So "Finding Vivian Maier" has finally been released this week at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). No news yet on full release, but hopefully it will be coming to a decent cinema near you soon!

National Geographic: The Last Roll of Kodachrome

Before digital came along Steve McCurry shot almost exclusively with Kodachrome. When Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome, in this short documentary Steve shoots the last produced roll of it.

A Fuji in London...

So I was in a car crash a couple of months ago and had to stop lugging around the DSLR. I decided on the Fuji X100, I was waiting for an excuse to buy a "street" camera as both the D300 and D700 stand out a bit too much even without the battery pack and just using the 50mm!

Its nice and small and light, without the hood will even fit in my trousers pocket! Reviews were great and the random stuff I shot off to and from work were good, but a work trip to London this week was the first real test for it.

Heres a rather nice all black version on Amazon

How the mighty fall

Kodak was founded by George Eastman in 1889.

On January 19, 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and obtained a $950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup to enable it to continue trading. 

Half of the cameras in the photo (the flickr page shows what ones were Kodak) were made by Kodak, showing how much they dominated the world of photography.

NYC 1996

Went here with friend from college, his sister collected Quinnsworth tokens for us that gave us 2 tickets for price of one. This was pre proper internet days, so we arrived with guide book in hand. Picked up a Fuji disposable camera and off we went!

Got the subway to our hostel, only to find where our hostel is supposed to be is a torn down building!!

After our hostel not existing, we kind of lucked out, a "local" directs us 10 blocks north to the McBurney YMCA. The YMCA hostel was cheap and clean BUT we get served to what looks like bomb proof glass, its residents were made up of junkies, ex-cons, prostitutes and an occasional tourist on the cheap. The cops were in every day arresting people or removing bodies. When one of us would go to the toilet the other would wait at the room door looking out the spy hole. We'd have to jam a chair against the door at night as well as locking it.

Our first tourist outing was to the World Trade Centre. Photos of everything else have long been lost!

Another day we wandered around, walked into wrong neighbourhood, got called whiteboy and had a gun flashed at us, we departed the area swiftly!

It was still an awesome holiday and I've been back to NY a load of times since. At this time NYC was still being "cleaned up", its a very different place now, not sure which I prefer!