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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Rob C on March 25, 2019, 04:44:05 pm

Title: Special Camera
Post by: Rob C on March 25, 2019, 04:44:05 pm
This makes MF look positively silly.

https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-miroslav-tichy-361768/

Rob
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Two23 on March 25, 2019, 08:53:05 pm
I like the camera, and the look the images have.  His photos do have a voyeuristic feel to them which I find a little disconcerting.  I wonder if he ever had a girlfriend of his own?


Kent in SD
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 26, 2019, 05:17:06 am
Sorry, but I don't see any difference from other voyeuristic snapshots. Even his "style" of old and unperfected photos can be easily reproduced with a phone and a couple of Apps.
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on March 26, 2019, 05:49:07 am
Sorry, but I don't see any difference from other voyeuristic snapshots. Even his "style" of old and unperfected photos can be easily reproduced with a phone and a couple of Apps.

So can Ansel Adams’. But that is no the point. What can be achieved today has no bearing on what was done in a pioneering fashion decades ago. Miroslav’s style was unique and original for his time. Heck, even today, he would be an Instagram star.
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Rob C on March 26, 2019, 08:16:18 am
And here I was, hoping for a decent conversation on the merits of cotton reels as cameras grips, recycling of metal parts, the principal secondary use of toilet roll centres and, frankly, the entire Mad Max syndrome!

:-)
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 26, 2019, 10:47:10 am
So can Ansel Adams’. But that is no the point. What can be achieved today has no bearing on what was done in a pioneering fashion decades ago. Miroslav’s style was unique and original for his time. Heck, even today, he would be an Instagram star.

Ansel? I doubt it.

Today, in some countries, Miroslav would be charged with taking peeping photos of unaware ladies.
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 26, 2019, 10:48:09 am
And here I was, hoping for a decent conversation on the merits of cotton reels as cameras grips, recycling of metal parts, the principal secondary use of toilet roll centres and, frankly, the entire Mad Max syndrome!

:-)

Sure, he was certainly inventive. My comment was more directed to his style of photos. Regardless of the gear used.
Title: Re: Special Camera
Post by: Rob C on March 26, 2019, 03:06:13 pm
Ansel? I doubt it.

Today, in some countries, Miroslav would be charged with taking peeping photos of unaware ladies.

Two things: judging by current, politically correct climates doesn't fit reasonably into the status quo of earlier times; if you look at a lot of different sites where his shots can be seen, I have developed real doubts as to just how stolen many pictures were. I also have reservations about how real the claim that that camera thingy was actually capable of doing anything photographic at all... a great myth-maker, though. Who knows...