Friday photography: Old Hollywood & New Cams

Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, and other photographers reinterpret famous Hitchcock scenes using current actors in this month’s Vanity Fair. (Here, at least, Renée Zellweger is on her way to looking like Henry Gibson.) [Via]
Speaking of Hollywood, Alison Jackson creates fake paparazzi shots (not 100% work-safe, FYI). [Via]
CNET’s Stephen Shankland hosts an interesting interview with Canon’s Chuck Westfall, talking about various camera tech developments–sensor dimensions, OLED displays, geotagging, and more.
YouTube hosts a video demonstrating how camera lenses are made. Not shown: my wallet imploding. [Via]
On the big-glass front, Sigma has trotted out this $25,000 badboy, and yet that’s got nothing on this Canon 1200mm cannon–selling for a cool $99,000, used. Not satisfied yet? How about a 5200mm Canon, good for photographing stuff 32 miles away? Even more examples are here.
At the other end of the spectrum, 20 bucks gets you a 6x iPhone camera zoom. [Via]
Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk illustrates the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images. The Thoreau quotation is chilling and well chosen. [Via]
If M.C. Escher had a camera, you might see something like this cool effect.

0 thoughts on “Friday photography: Old Hollywood & New Cams”

Doug Nelson says:

February 8, 2008 at 12:37 pm

The tolerances shown in the JML Optical video probably wouldn’t be sufficient for the wide-aperture, high-dispersion lenses necessary for photography. Here’s an excellent virtual tour of a Canon lens plant with videos showing the construction of one of their most sophisticated lenses, starting from the raw sand:
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/tech/l_plant/index.html
[Cool, will do; thanks for the link, Doug. –J.]

Alexander Hopstein says:

February 11, 2008 at 6:52 am

The Escher photograph looks pretty much alike what the German student Michael Kunze has made, a project he won a Canon talents award with, named “this side up”:
http://www.canon-profifoto-foerderpreis.de/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=379
http://www.neos-art.com/shop-section-170-this-side-up.html
http://www.geo.de/GEO/fotografie/junge_fotografie/52675.html
All links above refer to German sites, sorry about that.