Anyone care to come up with a slogan for these guys?"We'll beat the other guys to it, unless they beat us first!"
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
S&M Trucking. No really.
Anyone care to come up with a slogan for these guys?"We'll beat the other guys to it, unless they beat us first!"
Redbook Nikkor Aid International lens reclamation project
Akiyama Michio has an amazing website called Redbook Nikkor Aid International, the goal of which is to restore to Japan industrial Nikkor lenses used in mass-producing printed circuit boards in the 1960s. They are now obsolete technology, but represented a stunning level of technical achievement in their day. He is concerned that they will all be lost to scrap since they have not been noticed amid the move back toward film technology by photographers.
The site includes photos of many of these lenses in alluring still-life scenes where they appear alongside sashimi, strawberries, on beaches, and other lifestyle settings, which I think is to reflect his philosophy that the lenses need to be not only found but also used, thus restoring them to "life."
Part of his introduction states that he wants these Japanese heroes returned to Japan so that:
"He can feel the Japanese winds.
In the summer, he can enjoy Bon festival dance. In the autumn, he watch out for locusts in rice field. In the winter, he can catch the moonlight in the snow by light speed. In the spring, he sleeps under the fantasic cherry blossom with Sake.
If the old Lens will be fine, you will be fine also.
I am also glad to be fine."
I can't tell if the poetic bent is deliberate or the result of him using Google translator, but he offers some great lines like;
"Space-time is now when the time of millennium is exceeded at and 2001 exist actually."
Regardless, he has really found a piece of lost photographic history, and his honest passion for it comes across.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/akiyanroom/redbook-e/info/estab.html
The site includes photos of many of these lenses in alluring still-life scenes where they appear alongside sashimi, strawberries, on beaches, and other lifestyle settings, which I think is to reflect his philosophy that the lenses need to be not only found but also used, thus restoring them to "life."
Part of his introduction states that he wants these Japanese heroes returned to Japan so that:
"He can feel the Japanese winds.
In the summer, he can enjoy Bon festival dance. In the autumn, he watch out for locusts in rice field. In the winter, he can catch the moonlight in the snow by light speed. In the spring, he sleeps under the fantasic cherry blossom with Sake.
If the old Lens will be fine, you will be fine also.
I am also glad to be fine."
I can't tell if the poetic bent is deliberate or the result of him using Google translator, but he offers some great lines like;
"Space-time is now when the time of millennium is exceeded at and 2001 exist actually."
Regardless, he has really found a piece of lost photographic history, and his honest passion for it comes across.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/akiyanroom/redbook-e/info/estab.html
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Viewfinders material
Photos by me, layout Spectacle Design for Viewfinders Film Festival. Thought I should start adding things like this as well.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Negative outcome
The remains after the firehoses - I finally went through a binder of negs and slides retrieved from the remains of our home four years ago. The slides were no too bad surprisingly.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
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