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Check out this review of the Holga WPC (Wide Pinhole Camera) at HolgaBlog.

Related: Holga WPC group on Flickr

Here are nefotografas’s instructions for adapting the very cheap Kodak Instamatic 100 camera to use 35mm film. There’s also a bigger version here.

This looks very easy to do, no major camera surgery required. Nice!

By the end of this year, Kodak’s Kodachrome film will be no more. Given that it uses a different chemical process to develop than normal slide film, almost no-one offers processing any more. I think the only surprise is that it took as long as it did to get the axe, but it is the end of an era.

This does not affect Kodak’s Ektachrome range of E-6 slide film, whose availability remains unchanged.

Read the article at Democrat and Chronicle

Thanks to Seth Oestreicher for the heads-up!

Come check out the show of Polaroids at photo lab Photoworks SF! Opening reception Friday, May 8th, 2009, from 7–9pm at 2077-A Market St (at Church St.), San Francisco, CA, US.

This is a fitting bookend to the awesome and in-progress ‘Roid Week 2009!

In the aftermath of the Petters bloodbath, the article’s subhead sums it up nicely: "Stuck in limbo, for now, is Polaroid’s collection of photos taken by some of the biggest names in 20th-century art."

Read article at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

‘Roid Week 2009 starts tomorrow! This is a five day posting event for photos made on any instant film. It’s in its third year, and is normally a lot of fun and showcases some really excellent work.

I’ll be shooting with a bunch of stuff, but I’m particularly excited to have gotten a hold of two boxes of Fuji FP-100C peel-apart film in the elusive 4×5 size. Its low resolution is a fantastic match for a Cooke PS945 portrait lens.

Click here to join the ‘Roid Week 2009 group on Flickr and add your instant photos to the pool. (You can participate with a free account.)

Hope to see you there!

Shutter lubricants get hard or gummy if they sit for too long, so it’s a good idea to give your shutters regular workouts to keep them working smoothly. It sucks, but it helps avoid sticky shutters, which cause ruined photos and expensive servicing. I try to fire each of my shutters about 20 times on every speed (30 on the slower speeds I don’t use that much) once a month or so.

Today is my shutter workout day, lucky me!

Make some pinhole photos, pick your best one, and upload it to the WPPD gallery (free)!

Don’t have a pinhole camera? No problem! There are workshops and exhibits of pinhole photography all over the world today where you can build or use one, check the events listings for your area.

If there’s nothing near you, grab the free plans for one of these paper cut-out do-it-yourself 35mm pinhole cameras:

The Dirkon

Nick Dvoracek’s Populist (PDF link).

You can also make your own pinhole and mount it into a drilled-out body cap and use it on your film or digital SLR or rangefinder.

Happy shooting!

Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city’s sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as "modern sculpture".

But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.

Continue reading at the Guardian

This is worth a read, it’s short and makes a number of good points [that you’d think are painfully obvious, but apparently still need to be made… over and over and over again].

Via GRINZ

This monster, that looks like it’s at least a foot across, can be yours for the low price of $35,370 USD! Check out the photos on the eBay Germany listing.

Thanks to Seth O for the heads up!