LF Kickstarter – Travelwide 4×5 Camera

by EveNSteve

Of course not the first camera of this kind and I do worry about the build quality BUT at $100 for the camera (lens and accessories are additional $$$$$$) it is quite interesting.

Travelwide 4x5
Travelwide 4×5

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wanderlust/travelwide-45-camera

As I said others options do exist and many with a better build quality and additional options, however, anything to keep film and LF alive is cool by me! Ive been shooting a lot of LF in the last few months… but more on that and a review of some LF films and processing options in a few weeks.

Viva la Revolution- Stephen

Fuji Stops Motion Picture Film Production

by EveNSteve

As previously announced, Fujifilm has stopped production of the majority of Motion Picture Film products by March, 2013.

http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n130402.html

Kodak of course still makes motion picture film so no worries for now!!!!!*

We all knew this was coming and Fuji has also discontinued many great still films this last year(+) as well- I for one am not happy! Hey Fuji (USA)… if Fuji Japan makes a film why not make it available in our US market as well (I am thinking of the Fuji 160NS in 4×5)…. I’m sick of having to order films from the EU and beyond. At least Kodak Portra 160 and 400 rock and are easy to get here in the US and beyond… check out my reviews here on FR on these two great films.

Portra 160

Portra 400 Many articles….

*“LOS ANEGLES, Feb 21, 2013 —The 2013 Academy Award® best picture nominees include six movies that were shot on Kodak film: Argo, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Les Miserable.

In the 84-year history of Oscar®, no Academy Award®-winning best picture has ever been made without motion picture film.”

Viva la Revolution!

End the Limited Edition Maddness

by EveNSteve

Given the controversy regarding the recent Eggleston reprints and the resulting lawsuit I feel it is worth stating again… make one artwork and move on!

Reference Articles:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Court-dismisses-lawsuit-over-Eggleston-reprints-/29285

and my thoughts from 2009 are still true today….

https://figitalrevolution.com/2009/09/16/make-one-and-be-done/

Viva la Revolution- Stephen

UPDATE 4.2.2013….

To hear and argument to making unlimited prints click here: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/04/limited-edition-photographs.html

I for one find so many issues with this article  and its suggestions that I dont know where to begin….. in the end do what you want but in the days of endless disposable images less is more!

Stephen Schaub – Artist Talk Rutland, VT. May 14, 2013

by EveNSteve

Leaping Outside The Box: Reimagining Photography by Stephen Schaub

Rutland, Chaffee Art Center – 7 p.m., Chaffee Downtown, 75 Merchants Row, (802) 775-0356

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Photography is dead… at least the photography that has existed since Joseph Necephore Niepce made his first exposure in 1826; the same photography that led so many into the darkroom of trays and chemistry; the same photography that our grandparents used to produce endless carousels of slide shows on Kodachrome.
So what is next? Photography has always been in the throes of change and evolution since its inception and this transformative, gut-wrenching period is no different. Photography- as our collective nostalgic memory remembers it-is dead. The future promises to expand our definition of what a photograph will be.
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Viva la Revolution– Stephen
For more information on the full text above please visit: www.ichoosefilm.com

Get the Popcorn!

by EveNSteve

Ok so maybe I do live in a cave- I only recently discovered this web site…. http://www.americansuburbx.com/

Amazing collection of videos and interviews… enough to keep any artist busy watching and learning for quite sometime…

Some of my favorite:

Helmut Newton

Richard Avedon

William Eggleston

Andreas Gursky

Viva la Revolution– Stephen

Welcome Back to the Revolution

by EveNSteve

Stephen SchaubIt has been 14 months since my last post on FR and during that time I have enjoyed a much needed break. From the moment I put FR to a private site status that required a password to view content I have been inundated by email and phone requests to bring the site live once again. I have therefore decided to make the site public once more so that the hundreds of articles on all topics FIGITAL can be accessed once again and YES, as before, still for FREE. Please note there is a small number of articles/ audios/ videos which were lost when I closed the site back in January 2012.

But, what about new articles you may ask? As of right now, I have none planned, but I suspect that will change with time. For now enjoy FR and happy shooting.

Viva la Revolution- Stephen Schaub

www.stephenschaub.com

Kodak Files for Bankruptcy

by EveNSteve

Kodak Files For Bankruptcy

The End of Kodak? The End of Film? NO! NO! NO! NO! and also NO!

There has been a lot of mismangement at EK for many, many years but the film group is a valid money-making part of EK and I suspect- with restructuring- EK film will continue to flow from Rochester for many years to come. We may have to say goodbye to some films through consolidation but- is this the end of film from Kodak?…. No.

So stop your crying and start your buying… without film sales all bets are off! Now if you will excuse me I have to go process some film!

Viva la Revolution-

Stephen

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

by EveNSteve

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

Selections from a commencement address at Stanford Universty June 12, 2005

Brilliant Photograph by Albert Watson.

Remember there is no Figital without Digital and Steve Jobs has changed the world.

Viva la Revolution – Stephen.