New York NYC CameraPlusExpo 2016/ AKA January Meet-Up/ Camera Olympics

Went to a demonstration shoot at Harwin Camera, the other day. They were demonstrating some Broncolor lights. I used their Phase One IQ3 80MP, and my Pentax 645D. I got both sets of files so I could compare. I am impressed with both. I will be interested to see the results you get with the Sony RX1R II. You have to wonder what the sensor mfgs have in the development pipline.
Harwin Camera is interesting, in case you don't know about it, on 35th between 7th & 8th. I was started by some former Calumet employees, Small and very knowledgeable, personal service. They carry a full line including Nikon and Leica.
 
Harwin Camera is not on street level, it is in Suite 808, at 224 West 35th Street, but just take the elevator up.
 
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Just acquired my competition camera today in a trade. Good thing I just checked the postings--didn't realize that you'd moved it to January from February. Jeeze, that's freeze yer butts off month, so I guess that I'll be skipping the leisurely walk from Port Authority to Puckville. Incidentally, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere tomorrow is Noctilux day (or Mountain Elmar day south of the equator).
 
thambar said:
Just acquired my competition camera today in a trade. Good thing I just checked the postings--didn't realize that you'd moved it to January from February. Jeeze, that's freeze yer butts off month, so I guess that I'll be skipping the leisurely walk from Port Authority to Puckville. Incidentally, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere tomorrow is Noctilux day (or Mountain Elmar day south of the equator).
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James,

Glad you caught the month change. Wouldn't be the same without you.

This years event has some really big prizes. The $100.00 worth of Digital Silver Imaging could get you a 12x18 Custom B&W on fiber ($91.00); or a 16x20 Color Art Print ($90.00). Shipping is extra BTW.

It seems I have all the cameras I need and now I have diversified into printing and am poorer than ever.

I'm really struggling with this dog I rescued. I've given him a good home, but this animal is still suffering badly. He has "Stress Colitis" that requires a special diet; I buy every month a new phermone collar that releases the phermones of a nursing female dog to help calm his nerves and make him less anxious; and I have medication for cronic nausia that happens every other week. He is a scared dog that gets aggressive with any stimulation whether it be a stranger, another dog, or any sound. When I have to take him for a walk I am forced to muzzle him even though he weighs only 14 pounds.

Beagle-Face is eight years old and we have had him for 6 months. We have spent thousands of dollars, but he isn't getting any better. It really breaks my heart to see him continue to suffer... I feel like a big failure because there is not much more I can do but hope for improvement.

Cal
 
I have no personal experience with dogs but reading about yours to my wife she suggests you should go to live in a less complicated place, maybe in a farm in the country...
Of course easy to say not so much to do!
Don't give up! When shall we see a picture of Beagle-Face maybe taken with your Monster F3?
Ciao, robert
 
robert blu said:
I have no personal experience with dogs but reading about yours to my wife she suggests you should go to live in a less complicated place, maybe in a farm in the country...
Of course easy to say not so much to do!
Don't give up! When shall we see a picture of Beagle-Face maybe taken with your Monster F3?
Ciao, robert
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Robert,

Me and Beagle-Face wouldn't mind living in the country, but Maggie forces us to stay urban. Both Beagle-Face and I have had hard lives and a quiet place to relax would be good for us. Call us antisocial, but we are plenty happy by ourselves. I would love to live in Peekskill (Lower Hudson Valley, New York) where I could ride my bicycles on the road and not be so fearful of getting pancaked. Peekskill has great technical mountian biking from what I've heard.

BTW I'm a pretty good gardener and fisherman. I miss that part of my life. Baby-Dog would still need a muzzle because he eats garbage and then gets sick. Basically I'm just a simple guy who says, "I never knew anyone with a complicated life that was happy."

Cal

POSTSCRIPT: Baby-Dog bit my neighbor the first week we had him. Luckily it was not reported because if it was it would have been the third time and he would of been taken away and killed. Maggie was locking up our apartment and our neighbor happen to come by. He said, "I see you got a new puppy," and Beagle-Face drew blood and bit his hand. Every day I experience these types of episodes out on the street when I walk him.
 
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More crazy printing. I figured out how to print 8 postcard sized prints on a 17x22 sheet of paper. I find that the fine detail really holds up on these small postcards, and for editing purposes to assemble a portfolio smaller is better than bigger prints. I see great potential as marketing materials, for editing purposes because you can see an exhibition all at once, and as a small pocket portfolio.

Christian gave me some 8 1/2x11 Canson Baryta Photograpique so I should have some print samples using yet another high end paper.

It seems that I can't operate my Epson 7800 because of lack of studio space. The printer really lives up to its name: the Jersey Barrier.

Somehow I have taken gentrification to a new level and Maggie's unworkable cluttered workspace is getting displaced into the livingroom sometime over the Christmas break as an artist displaces and banishes his girlfriend to stay in the livingroom with the dog.

Meanwhile Maggie is getting all this high end luxury clothing sent as gifts. Yesterday she got this long white coat and a from another designer a white shirt. It seems like my name is getting published all over the place due to photo credit. There seems to be a new trend towards "authenticity" where regular people instead of celebrities are being used for marketing purposes. Maggie fits this current model very well because she is an academic/ graduate college professor who somehow has become a Fashion Blogger.

My hope is to make some 24x36 prints in time for the Olympics.

Cal
 
Aww,

Sending some luck and good vibes for Beagle-Face!

I have 3 dogs, 2 of them rescues.

The youngest, and most recent addition to the pack, a brown nose pit bull girl can be such a sweetie until a new person comes around. She absolutely hates cats, squirrels, and large birds. Somehow butterflies and snakes are more her style, although the snakes don't usually make it out of playtime with their guts intact.

She doesn't care for my other two boys, and has had a few good nips at both of them causing panic, a bit of blood, and a hefty cash sum at the vet.

All of us could use a little country retreat to run off the city life.
 
B-9 said:
Aww,

Sending some luck and good vibes for Beagle-Face!

I have 3 dogs, 2 of them rescues.

The youngest, and most recent addition to the pack, a brown nose pit bull girl can be such a sweetie until a new person comes around. She absolutely hates cats, squirrels, and large birds. Somehow butterflies and snakes are more her style, although the snakes don't usually make it out of playtime with their guts intact.

She doesn't care for my other two boys, and has had a few good nips at both of them causing panic, a bit of blood, and a hefty cash sum at the vet.

All of us could use a little country retreat to run off the city life.
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Deven,

Beagle-Face is doing much better. Another knick-name for him is O.C.D. short for Obsessive Compulsive Dog; Chubby-Butt is another; but we had another episode of Pig-Dog. In Central Park he smells around and snorts and grunts just like a pig. By doctor's orders I put his special kibble in this "Weeble" bowl that has a small opening that he does not like so he cannot wolf down his food. Even if he eats too fast it can make him sick.

In my ghetto neighborhood he pretty much is hyper vigilant which is good instinct. Just over a month ago a cop was shot and killed a few blocks from where I live.

Lately I've been walking him downtown in the Upper Eastside where richer folk live, and there he seems much more relaxed and I would say that he acts entitled like many folk that live there. A real transition happens when I cross 96th Street and the neighborhood changes, and the tough guy from Brooklyn attitude disappears until I cross 96th Street uptown on our way home. I stopped walking him in Central Park now that it gets dark around 4:00 PM, and especially since there have been muggings by bands of youth in Central Park in the news.

Baby-Dog, all 14 pounds of him, hates big dogs, and especially Pit Bulls. In my neighborhood he is kinda known as a vicious dog who wears a muzzle for a reason, but many people know that he was abused by one owner and neglected by a married couple we know that penned him in a kitchen and neglected him for over a year when they had a baby.

We basically adopted a crazy and angry dog that has special needs. Just with a heavily credentialed dog behaviorologist and trainer it has cost us thousands. It seems like he has Pancrititis that might shorten his life. Everything about him is special, and he has many people who are routing for him.

Cal
 
I just got an email from a friend on the Upper West Side who has a used, working Epson 3800, he is selling. It is approx. seven years old. Does anyone in the group have an interest? I am thinking of getting it my self to dedicate to a pizo inkset. What would be a fair price?
Steve
 
Calzone said:
John,

Sunday, January 17th, 2016.

I'll be 58 years old by then. Like Elvis I'm a Capri-corn.

Cal
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I would hardly call you Capricon Cal. This is by just your birth date right? You should take your birthtime and plug it in to one of those online sites. It'll generate your entire horoscope. For reference i'am Sagittarius by the birth month/western way but turn out Capricon when i take my birth time and have a chart made. Far and away I'am a Capricon than anything else.
 
Hello Everyone - I thought I'd mention that if you have free time over the holidays you should absolutely not miss the Fall japanese photography exhibit at the Japan society :

http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/gallery/for-a-new-world-to-come

I bring it up because it ends in 2 weeks. The first part of the exhibit - held at the Grey Gallery - has already closed. A great opportunity to see those beautiful grainy and blurry Daido and Nakahira prints up close (and a lot of other delicious stuff too)

Philippe
 
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