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The Gateway drug to analog photography?

I might have to build a "cellular phone carrier" for my 4x5 beseler. Don't cell phone carriers usually sell for billions of dollars?
 
I think its a great idea, and I wish them every success!! I predict that there will be a few purchases from those who already have darkrooms too!
 
I still prefer to use cell phones for skipping across ponds. ... one more obnoxious piece of urban technology to leave behind when I want to photograph in peace. ... but now with wristwatch cameras imminent ... and camera rings next, no doubt....
 
DREW WILEY said:
I still prefer to use cell phones for skipping across ponds. ... one more obnoxious piece of urban technology to leave behind when I want to photograph in peace. ... but now with wristwatch cameras imminent ... and camera rings next, no doubt....
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There's even worse. These have been around for at least 8 or 10 years. Dead Link Removed
 
Those should be a big hit at the Cannes Film Festival for proctologists!
 
jp498 said:
I might have to build a "cellular phone carrier" for my 4x5 beseler. Don't cell phone carriers usually sell for billions of dollars?
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My iPhone fit almost perfectly into one half of a 6x7 carrier.
 
It's a cool idea. I could see myself with one of those, especially if I could do standard print sizes.
 
Astonishingly expensive, but looking at the prototype they have concentrated on making the device pretty rather than functional. I can't help thinking a pinhole-camera kit would do far more for an individuals photographic understanding.

One could equip an entire (secondhand) temporary darkroom for the same price, without the pixels. As a deliberate anti-tech plan I may have to make a 'neg' carrier out of foamboard for my non-smart mobile, as a proof of anti-hipsterdom.

Hmmmm, this sounds like I'm a grumpy-old-man (TM). . . what is one supposed to say? Something about children and front-gardens I think.
 
This is very cool and clever. Now a new generation can take their pictures on a phone, enlarge and develop them, then they can scan their prints and post them to facebook! ;-)
 

Around here, it's something like "You Damn kids! Get off my Lawn!!!
 
The funniest old fart was a drummer in 80's rock band. I'm paraphrasing him, but he said "When I was in a band, there were no drum machines. Kids have it too easy today". I'm sure he walked 50 mines in to snow on his knees to go drum also.
 
Due to where my school was located, I actually did have to walk up a hill both ways to go to school. I had to cross a flood plain in order to get to school. Of course there was the time I walked to school in a blizzard only to find out that the school was closed...

Now days we get even a dusting of snow and all the schools close.
 
This is actually way cheaper than the other equivalent offering on the market: http://www.de-vere.com/products.htm

Very smart, and seems appropriately targeted for the right demographic.
 
Expensive device

Michel Hardy-Vallée said:
This is actually way cheaper than the other equivalent offering on the market: http://www.de-vere.com/products.htm

Very smart, and seems appropriately targeted for the right demographic.
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This enlarger is very vulnerable to obsolescence. I taught at a local JC that had a SCSI Fuji Pictrograph printer. Made beautiful color prints. It was cutting edge technology 15 years ago, but probably not usable because SCSI is dead. Apple Firewire is on it's way out and now Thunderbolt is in.

I bought my Beseler 45MX and it's still relevant today. I use both analog and digital cameras. However, I build and grow on my knowledge about analog photography while my knowledge with digital technology will be obsolete very fast. I'm tech manager in a university art department and I can barely catch up on my narrow area of art and computers. One thing I know with technology. It allows us to make art faster, not necessarily better.
 
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