Edmonton Photographic Historical Society

       Kodak’s first underwater digital camera—the EasyShare Sport C123—was released January 4 th 2011. It is waterproof to 3 m (10 feet), dust proof and shock proof. It uses 2 AA batteries of any type, available almost everywhere.   If flooded it might be OK after opening the battery door,   removing SD card and batteries and leaving it open until dry.   The rubber seal located inside the battery compartment door should be checked regularly and particularly before going underwater. Any particles on the seal could cause a leak, so a swipe with a cotton swab is a good idea!      It captures sound while recording movies, but the camera doesn’t play the video with sound (you have to play the video on something else). Originally the “Share” function provided many options with social media, but now all support for that is gone. The camera does have PICTBRIDGE—support for direct coupling camera to printer—features. There are also many built-i...

I was having lunch with my wife’s minister at a local restaurant when I happened to mention our upcoming Photo Fair. Dave’s ears perked up and he said he had some photo equipment he was planning on donating he could give to me. Initially he could put his hands on the Canon Canosound 312XL-S camera and a baia film viewer/editor. A week later he sent home an Elmo ST-600 2-track 8mm sound projector. We will try to write separate articles about the last two.      For now we are going to stay with the Canon Canosound 312XL-S camera .        It came with a Canon Boom Microphone (Model BM-70) in a case in a box. The handle—folded up to access the tripod socket on the base of the camera—holds six AA batteries and a lot of them had leaked. I managed to pry them out and cleaned out as much of the deposits as I could. I didn’t try loading AA-batteries, as I have no film. The Kodak sound cartridges were a little deeper than the standard silent cartridges, but the ...

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 HOW-TOs— 100 Essential Techniques —is a 2009 book written by Chris Orwig.   IThe book has a step-by-step 100 chapters on the five modules of Lightroom — Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web. Each chapter is at least two facing pages but seldom larger than five pages.        For those not aware of Lightroom as opposed to Photoshop, Lightroom is intended for working photographers or at the very least prolific amateurs. While Photoshop allows you to control almost every aspect of an image using multiple layers   of control it would appear Lightroom allows you to control the tones in a scene using brush-on effects.   That is not to say the two programs can’t achieve the same results, but there is a huge difference between the file size. Lightroom takes the original image file and then adds a package of instructions that work to produce a finished image. This combination of instructions is much smaller than the completely r...

I can’t stress how difficult collecting gets as you age. At one time I knew every camera I had acquired. Now I not even too sure the camera I just bought is what I think it is.      Take this Canon EOS Rebel T5 . It strongly resembles the Canon 1100D I have. Turns out that is because the T5 is the next model, being sold as a 1200D in other markets. I had mostly decided I wasn’t going to buy it. I also hadn’t identified it well in my mind, so later the same day told a knowledgeable fellow collector I had decided a Canon T5i was too expensive for my tastes (it was selling for $35). The fellow collector said that was a pretty reasonable price for that camera. And it would have been I guess, as the additional “i” in the model name indicates a more advanced camera than what was on offer.      So late that month I was back in the thrift store selling the T5. I had thought to myself I should bring the 1100D’s battery—the T5 camera didn’t have a battery or a SD car...