Dobrý Den!

Czech designer, Jaroslav Jurica, has designed the Rubikon, a paper pinhole camera that can be printed out on card at home and glued into a functioning pinhole camera.

This is the v.2 of the Rubikon (called the pinhole rebel) was released earlyer this year and is simpler to cut out and fold than the original v.1, even if not quite as cool looking.

Download it today and get snapping... well more *slide... [wait] ...slide*. Rubikon 2

I have mine printed out, foled and glued with aditional black paint on the inside for added security. I don't have any photos from it as yet, but I will put them up with Part: 2; the original paper pinhole.

In 1979 the ABC magazine published a jigsaw called Dirkon, which paraphrased the single-lensed reflex cameras, which used to be very popular at that time. The cut-out Rubikon was first published in 2005 in the 8. issue of the ABC magazine, 25 years after introducing Dirkon

Via: Hubero Kororo

I was stumbling around the inter-webs and came across the work of the Romanian photographer Rares Cuciureanu. His photos on this page have a beautiful archival quality about them, and I just wanted to share them with you.

via 2photo.ru

JPG Magazine

This is the third time I have written this post, but me darn computer keeps crashing. I have found this FANTASTIC set of Photoshop actions, I would even go as far as to say the BEST IN THE WORLD! dA user *rawimage has developed a set of actions that can turn any digital photograph into an image that look just like a Polaroid photo! No longer do I need to buy SX-70 film at £30 for 10 shots, "I'll just do it all in post". Haha!

Polaroid Generator V2

A photograph by Margaret Bourke-White.

In 1976 Diego Goldberg from Argentina decided to start an epic document of his family. On the 17th June every year the family stop and photograph them selves to "stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by."

To see their 33 year (and expanding) document of a family, visit the page on the Zone Zero magazine site: http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

Whilst stumbling around photography websites, I came across a site with some of the best locations found on Google Maps all turned into fantastic-looking wallpapers! The site was created by Austrtailan photographer, Ashley Ringrose (I think), who is part of the Australian inteactive agancy, Soap Creative. There's the link.

A new TLR has been unleashed on Japan. A plastic beast that takes 135 film; The Blackbird, Fly.

These little toy cameras are the latest thing to come from Japan. Well... there are only available in Japan at the mo, for ¥12,600 (about $127, £75 or €94).

Like the 35mm Holga back, it comes with different mattes, allowing you to take the classic TLR square images. 3 masks allow; standard 24x36 - for portrait shots, 24x24 - for small square images, and full frame - 36mm high and completely exposing the sprocket holes.

It can be used with the regular top-down view, or to achieve better landscape shots, rotated 90 degrees for use with a viewfinder.

The photos I've seen from it all look quite good, for a 'toy' camera. I really need to brush up on my Japanese and fly over there and try one out.

Stats:

Focus - 0.8m - infinity

Aperture - f7 and f11

Focal distance - 33mm

Shutter - 1/125

Features:

Bulb/Normal modes

Hot-shoe

Tripod mount

That's all I can get from my very limited Japanese, if you're better than me - http://www.superheadz.com/bbf/index.html translated it yourself.

I've been reading this great blog recently. Go Holga is a great site dedicated to the bare-bones Chinese camera. It's updated on an almost daily basis and is very conveniently arranged into categories, with a gallery and now a new forum. Go on! Check it out!

Another good one I found was Satsuei - basically, it Japanese for photography/photographing. The actual blog in fortunately in English, and has some brilliant shots on it.